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The Best of Both Worlds: New Take on Metal-Plastic Hybrid 3D Printing

Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D plastic structures with metal is not environment-friendly and yields poor results. Now, scientists from Waseda University , Japan, have developed a metal-plastic hybrid 3D...

Low-Cost SLA 3D Printing Democratizes Scale Modeling

With the advent of affordable stereolithography (SLA) and digital light processing (DLP) printers like the Anycubic Photon and Elegoo Mars , the average consumer now has access to technology that, up until a few years ago, was prohibitively expensive. The availability...

How 3D Printing in Space Will Help Put a Million People on Mars

Mention space missions, what may first come to mind is either rocket blastoffs, spaceships voyaging toward another planet or astronauts walking in the black of vacuum in fat spacesuits. . All of those things are made on Earth, but for both convenience and long-haul...

Desktop Anisoprinting package provides full engineering solution for composites AM

Anisoprint , developers of continuous fiber 3D printing technology, presented a new turnkey solution, which it called Desktop Anisoprinting, that provides a full engineering package of hardware, materials and support. . Following in the footsteps of numerous other AM...