3D Printing for High tech

Have you ever wondered how the high-tech industry can keep up releasing new gadgets and all sorts of electronic devices at such a fast pace? There might be a dozen reasons that explain it but let’s focus on how production of essential components needs to be optimized.

Desktop Metal receives $115 Million Funding to bring 3D printed metal to market

Desktop Metal, the company committed to making metal 3D printing accessible to manufacturers and engineers, today announced it has completed a $115 million Series D investment round to further accelerate the company’s rapid business...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) released the first footage from its floating 3D printed space drone: the Int-Ball

The Japanese space agency has 3D printed a drone floating in space. Called JEM Internal Ball (Int-Ball), it is currently  aboard the ISS and is controlled on Earth at the JAXA Space Center Tsukuba....

What if 3D Printed gel could fix your shattered smartphone screen ?

Researchers at the University of Melbourne (in Australia) are currently developing 3D printed gel that could be used to fix a smartphone’s broken screen. Accompanied by engineers from Melbourne School of Engineering, Dr. Luke...

The electric skateboard made from giant 3D printed LEGO pieces, a masterpiece of James Bruton

James Bruton, founder of Xrobots, a platform dedicated to electronic projects, unveils a lego electric skateboard.   The skateboard does not have  regular Lego bricks. The UK-based maker found those 3D models for “Lego blocks”...

Hoberman Sphere inspired Copypod, a 3D scanning booth

Beijing-based People’s Architecture Office designed Copypod,  a retractable structure which can be expanded into a 3D scanning booth. Inspired from Hoberman Sphere, the latter can 3D scan and change people or things into 3D...

Google Blocks, Google’s new virtual reality 3D modelling application

Google Blocks is a virtual reality 3D modelling software that allows users of Oculus Rift and HTC Vive to freely export their designs in .obj format implying therefore that the designs created by Google...

Royal Caribbean makes use of 3D printing in a collaboration with Snapchat

In a project of cruise line operators, Royal Caribbean takes advantage of 3D printing. Indeed, Royal Caribbean Snapchat Spectacles called SeaSeeker are a creative way to explore the marine life by allowing the wearer...

Neotech AMT will undertake two 3D printed electronics projects to improve additive manufacturing

The Nuremberg-based Neotech AMT manufactures technologies for 3D printed electronics and offers production levels and R&D systems in the 3D printing industry. In order to advance additive manufacturing, the company will now focus on...

3D printed graphene aerogel would be the lightest material in the world

The 2018 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records recognizes a 3D printed graphene aerogel as the “least dense 3D printed structure.” According to researchers at Kansas State University, the material is superelastic, conductive...

Autodesk’s Netfabb introduces its generative design to customers

Autodesk’s Netfabb will soon make its generative design accessible to the 3D printing industry with a new software tool. The generative design aims at helping the engineer/designer to discover a wide range of functional...

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