3D printing

Here’s a 3D-Printed, Self-Driving Mini Car

I present to you the engineering equivalent of peanut butter and jelly: A self-driving vehicle that was 3D-printed. A prototype is currently being tested, and in the future, it could shuttle jet-lagged passengers across terminals or hungover college kids across the quad. Researchers at the University of Michigan announced the vehicular jackalope yesterday: SmartCarts, custom…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

This 3D Printer Is an Artist That Paints With Light

3D printing needn’t just be used to make real objects. Artist Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi has been using one to paint with light—and this is what it looks like. Light painting is, of course, nothing new. But here, Kalsi has attached an RGB LED to the working end of a 3D printer and captured the way…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Only Way To Describe This 3D-Printed Mechanized Toy Tank Is Amazing

If there’s one thing a plastic resin 3D printer is good at, it’s making custom toys. And Michael Sng’s Machination Studio has created the ultimate example of what 3D-printed toys can be with the HMC Boudicca; a 20-inch tall walking mechanized tank with more detailed animated features than even R2-D2 has. Scaled to human sizes…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Sorry Ikea, This Robotic Arm Prints Furniture Any Shape or Size I Want

This robot that can spin together 3D-printed furniture could really get your creative juices flowing. And maybe eventually inspire the world to nix sectional couches once and for all. Meet Galatéa, the honking, seafoam-colored robot arm that looks like road construction equipment. “She” was invented by engineer Sylvain Charpiot, founder of French startup Drawn. Galatéa…

Tech News Bryan Lufkin

A New High-Res 3D Printer Can Print Objects Smaller Than Blood Cells

Those telltale layered stripe marks all over a 3D-printed object might soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new high-res printing technique that’s actually capable of creating 3D objects smaller than a red blood cell. A team of researchers from South Korea’s Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, led by professor…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

3D-Printed Flutes Can Produce Notes that Regular Flutes Can’t

3D Printing has been around long enough for playable 3D-printed instruments to exist, but most musicians will still opt for one made using traditional methods. That could soon change, however, as researchers have found a way to design and 3D print musical instruments capable of producing unique notes that traditional instruments can’t. Researchers from the…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

These Impossibly Twisted 3D-Printed Faucets Somehow Actually Work

Besides being able to produce prototypes quickly and efficiently, 3D printers are also able to create complex shaped pieces that are impossible to make using traditional manufacturing techniques. That’s why American Standard has embraced 3D-printing for its new line of twisted faucets that seem physically impossible. 3D-printed from actual metal so they’ll last just as…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Is the World’s First 3D-Printed Platinum Spacecraft Thruster

More than 600 ignitions and an hour of firing—this was the heavy test for the world’s first spacecraft thruster with a platinum combustion chamber and nozzle made by 3D printing. And the thruster successfully passed its baptism of fire. This is the 10 N hydrazine thruster which was printed in platinum—rhodium alloy using a laser…

Space & Spaceflight Attila Nagy

This Joker Mask Is An Amazing, 3-D Printed Nightmare

We’ve 3D Printed Batman. Why not 3D print his greatest foe too? This mask is not only just an awesome example of what can be done with 3D-printing: It’s also bloody petrifying. https://gizmodo.com/this-fantastic-batman-armour-is-entirely-3d-printed-1676987879 Based on the gross incarnation of the Clown Prince of Crime that got his face sliced off to wear as a gruesome…

Books & Comics James Whitbrook

MIT Scientists Can Now 3D Print Optically Transparent Glass

3D printing has become a cheap and versatile way of creating new solid objects — but some materials have so far refused to be shaped using the manufacturing technology. Now, researchers at MIT have finally developed a way to 3D print optically transparent glass. While it’s easy enough to 3D print using all kinds of…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

The Plan to 3D Print a Steel Bridge in Mid-Air

In two years, a one-of-a-kind construction project will commence over a canal in Amsterdam. It won’t involve any humans at all, but rather, a six-axis robot that can craft molten metal in mid-air. Two months later, a 24 foot-long steel pedestrian bridge will arc its way across the water. That, at least, is the plan.…

Tech News Maddie Stone

Surgeons In Brazil Successfully Implant A 3D-Printed Titanium Skull

After suffering a horrific motorcycle accident, 23-year-old Jessica Cussioli was left without a large portion of her skull. Neurosurgeons in Brazil have now come to the rescue by performing the country’s first-ever transplant of a 3D-printed titanium skull. Top image: Cussioli after the surgery As reported in 3ders, the bones across the right side of…

io9 George Dvorsky

Open-Source Cyborg Hand is Making Prosthetics More Accessible Than Ever

A generation ago, getting a prosthetic limb fitted usually amounted to a having a heavy, nearly useless hunk of plastic and metal tacked onto your body. But bionic hands such as this one illustrate just how quickly that’s all changing. HACKberry, brainchild of the Japanese company exii, wants to become a game changer for those…

Gadgets Maddie Stone

Can Open-Source 3D Printing Make Custom Prostheses Affordable?

Joe Oxenbury was born without a left hand. “It was a glitch,” says his father, Chris. “That’s what the doctors told us. His hand just didn’t grow when he was in the womb.” When Joe was eight years old, Chris organised a fundraising campaign to buy his son a £2,000 prosthetic hand. But children can…

Tech News Fathima Simjee

Watch how 3D printers 3D print 3D printer parts to make more 3D printers

Like how some animals can regenerate limbs or like how humans can, uh, make babies, 3D printers can 3D print the 3D printer parts necessary to make more 3D printers. Thankfully, they still require some living person to put these parts together because if they didn’t, they could just start eliminating us one by one…

Sploid Casey Chan

3D-Printed Eggs Can Even Fool Wild Birds Into Thinking They’re Real

Maybe you’re familiar with the asshole behavior of cowbirds. Known as “brood parasites,” cowbirds lay eggs in another bird’s nest and trick the host bird into raising cowbird offspring at the expense of her own. Like I said, assholes. But birds can learn to recognize imposter eggs. That’s where 3D printing comes in. To study…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

This Mini Jet Engine Is Just One Of The Most Incredible 3D-Printed Items

It’s amazing what you can do with 3D printers nowadays. This relatively new technology has already proved to be incredibly versatile, and has allowed anybody to become a manufacturer. Just see for yourself, with these videos of some of the most amazing 3D-printed items in the world. PiKon, a telescope that can be printed for…

io9 Vincze Miklós

3D Tissue Engineering May One Day Solve Both Impotence And Miscarriage

A study published last week in the journal Biofabrication describes a new technique to build replacements for damaged three dimensional human tissues. The researchers running the study are trying to make an eardrum. But their technique, if successful, might also one day create replacements for complex reproductive tissues. [Image: Cells growing on engineered scafffold from…

Tech News Diane Kelly

This Goo Accurately Paints Patterns on Your 3D-Printed Creations

If you try to describe 3D printing to someone, you can’t help but channel a little science fiction. “You put designs in this machine, which then just like…makes it.” I’m convinced that its the great-great-great-grandfather to the oft-referenced Star Trek replicator. Luckily, I already like my tea Earl Grey and hot. But almost every new…

Tech News Darren Orf

3D-Printing Oddly Shaped Pills Can Change How Fast They’re Absorbed

Medicine is one of the more exciting fields that 3D printing promises to radically innovate. Doctors have already used the technology to help repair damaged airways in children with a 3D-printed splint, but researchers in the pharmaceutical field have instead been dabbling with custom-shaped pills optimized for every patient’s treatment needs. Drugmakers currently mass-produce pills…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Here’s a 3D-Printed, Self-Driving Mini Car

This 3D Printer Is an Artist That Paints With Light

The Only Way To Describe This 3D-Printed Mechanized Toy Tank Is Amazing

Sorry Ikea, This Robotic Arm Prints Furniture Any Shape or Size I Want

A New High-Res 3D Printer Can Print Objects Smaller Than Blood Cells

3D-Printed Flutes Can Produce Notes that Regular Flutes Can’t

These Impossibly Twisted 3D-Printed Faucets Somehow Actually Work

This Is the World’s First 3D-Printed Platinum Spacecraft Thruster

This Joker Mask Is An Amazing, 3-D Printed Nightmare

MIT Scientists Can Now 3D Print Optically Transparent Glass

The Plan to 3D Print a Steel Bridge in Mid-Air

Surgeons In Brazil Successfully Implant A 3D-Printed Titanium Skull

Open-Source Cyborg Hand is Making Prosthetics More Accessible Than Ever

Can Open-Source 3D Printing Make Custom Prostheses Affordable?

Watch how 3D printers 3D print 3D printer parts to make more 3D printers

3D-Printed Eggs Can Even Fool Wild Birds Into Thinking They’re Real

This Mini Jet Engine Is Just One Of The Most Incredible 3D-Printed Items

3D Tissue Engineering May One Day Solve Both Impotence And Miscarriage

This Goo Accurately Paints Patterns on Your 3D-Printed Creations

3D-Printing Oddly Shaped Pills Can Change How Fast They’re Absorbed

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Meta Has More Smart Glasses Coming Whether You Want Them or Not

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