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When MakerBot Is Not The MakerBot You Knew

Luke Colby of Triton Space Technologies [Source: MakerBot] I’m reading one of MakerBot’s recent case studies, and had a thought about how the company has changed. . MakerBot began as a rough-and-tumble Brooklyn-based startup making a home 3D printer kit. Rudimentary...

Two related discoveries advance basic and applied additive manufacturing research

A research team led by Tao Sun , associate professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Virginia, has made two discoveries that can expand additive manufacturing in aerospace and other industries that rely on strong metal parts. . Additive...

3D Printer Enables Variable Gloss

New system enables realistic variations in glossiness across a 3D-printed surface. The advance could aid fine art reproduction and the design of prosthetics. Shape, color, and gloss. Those are an object's three most salient visual features. . Currently, 3D printers...

Scientists Create First Full-Size 3D Printed Human Heart Model

Shown is the 3D printed heart model created by researchers in Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering. (Carnegie Mellon/ACS Publications via YouTube) American researchers say they have created the first full-size human heart model using 3D printing...