Monthly Archives: July 2017
3D printed water testing sensor will reduce risks of waterborne illnesses
University of British Columbia Okanagan campus’s researchers created a 3D printed quality sensor device which aims at monitoring drinking water.
The device is a low-cost and reliable way to get drinking water. By giving...
3D printed bikes for Tour de France riders Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas
Pinarello, an Italy-based bicycle company makes use of metal 3D Printing to create a design for Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas, Tour de France cyclists. Both cyclists rode with their bike during the opening...
La Machinerie: the fab fab from Amiens that grows!
A workshop with tools dedicated to the additive manufacturing and the activities related to the DIY, the collaborative entrepreneurship, the digital one or the craft that would be opened 16h / week, is the...
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....
The NIST and Duck Bong Kim address three of the challenges to production-ready metal 3D printing
Even though (additive manufacturing) AM is a driven factor of the next industrial revolution, work still needs to be done to reach a full-production ready technology.
The issue tackled by researchers of Tennessee Technological University...
The “first entirely soft artificial heart”, by ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich makes use of 3D printing to create a silicone artificial heart. Indeed, statistics show that 26 million people suffer from heart failure in the world and a prevalent lack of heart donors.
Heart...
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...