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South Korea Develops Virtual Reality Movies for Cinema-Goers
Reading Time: 3 minutesVirtual Reality is making it to cinemas in South Korea with film tech labs and visual effects houses rapidly creating popular content. Cinema-goers are fully immersed with both VR and 4DX which brings feel, touch and smell to the experience. From the beginning of the 1900s until now, people have been enjoying…
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Weekend Project: Make Your Garden Glow with 3D Printed LED Flowers
Reading Time: 4 minutesWant to give your 3D printer the green thumb? Autodesk and Instructables content creator Becky Stern shares a project on how to make 3D printed light-up flowers with LED lights. FDM desktop 3D printing has opened up a new world of possibilities when it comes to making customizable and decorative objects. By…
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Google Maps to Improve Walking Navigation with AR Fox and Giant Arrows
Reading Time: 3 minutesAt Google’s I/O Developers conference this week, the company’s Vice President, Aparna Chennapragada, demonstrated how AR could be used to improve navigation when using Google Maps. The result is a cute AR fox and huge arrows to point you in the right direction. How often do you find yourself relying on Google…
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Export Collada Files from New PSVR Painting App
Reading Time: 3 minutesA new VR painting application has just released for PlayStation 4. Titled CoolPaintrVR, the app allows you to paint and sculpt in VR and export your creations to 3D modeling software and platforms. Besides the throng of stellar games and weirdness-generating virtual social spaces, the rise of home virtual reality (VR) technology…
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3D Printed Telegraph Replicates Ezra Cornell’s 1844 Original
Reading Time: 3 minutesMade with 3D scanning and 3D printing, a replica of Ezra Cornell’s telegraph machine from 1844 goes on display at Cornell University Library. In the history of communications, American businessman and philanthropist Ezra Cornell played a significant role. In 1844, his personal telegraph machine received the world’s first telegraph message sent by…
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This 3D Printed Skim Reaper Can Prevent Credit Card Fraud
Reading Time: 3 minutesCredit card skimming is a disease. Meet the cure. The New York City Police Department is testing a “skim reaper” to detect and prevent credit card fraud. It’s based on a 3D printed prototype by researchers from the University of Florida. Cyber-security researchers from the University of Florida are working with the…
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Made In Space Wins NASA Contract for Next-Gen ‘Vulcan’ 3D Printer
Reading Time: 2 minutesCalifornia-based company which built the two 3D printers aboard the International Space Station (ISS) secures a NASA contract to continue developing its next-generation Vulcan manufacturing system. As the name implies, Made in Space is a company that specializes in additive manufacturing in space. And they’re pretty established, too. The start-up already has…
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3D Printer Party Breaks Guinness World Record, 3D Prints 4.8 Meters Sword
Reading Time: 3 minutesLast weekend, the 3D Printing Party in Burgos, Spain, broke the record for the most 3D printers printing simultaneously with their owners. However, that may not be the only record broken at the annual event. At the University of Burgos in Spain last weekend, a 3D Printing Party took over from May 4th…
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3D Printed Intravaginal Ring Helps to Avoid Unwanted Pregancy and HIV Infection
Reading Time: 6 minutesRahima Benhabbour is a woman on an amazing mission. Not only is she a professor at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy University department in Chapel Hill, North Carolina she’s also founder of AnnelleO, a 3D printed intravaginal ring. Benhabbour’s invention could have a major impact in helping women with a multitude of health issues from…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOffering a technological overview of 3D printing and the beats to build your own RepRap, this entry in the “For Dummies” series is almost half-off on Amazon.com. The internet is great and all, but it’ll never quite edge out the printed word as an experiential way to learn. Who doesn’t love the…
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Upgrade Your Ride with a 3D Printed Airless Bicycle Tire?
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo showcase their new flexible filament, 3D printer manufacturer BigRep fabricated a 3D printed airless bicycle tire and took it for a spin on the streets of Berlin. Don’t Miss: BigRep Launches New Pro Flex Filament for 3D Printing Summer’s here! It’s time to dust off your trusty bicycle and take it…
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BigRep Prototypes Big with a 3D Printed Wheel Rim
Reading Time: 3 minutesProduct Designer Marco Mattia Cristofori from BigRep turned to the custom wheel rim for a development challenge, creating a prototype virtually indistinguishable from the real thing. BigRep, the German mechanical engineering company, is reinventing the wheel, so to speak. Marco Mattia Cristofori, a product designer at the company, wanted to show the…
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Weekend Project: Five Things to 3D Print for Your Cinco De Mayo Celebrations
Reading Time: 4 minutesAre you getting ready to celebrate the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo this weekend? Prep for the festivities, which usually entail endless margaritas, music, and food, with some of these Cinco de Mayo-themed 3D prints! Today is May 5th, and while that might seem like an ordinary day to a majority…
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US Navy Awards GE $9 Million Contract for 3D Printing Research
Reading Time: 4 minutesGE awarded $9 million contract by US Navy to develop framework to rapidly 3D print replacement parts for ships, aircraft, and other critical military assets. The focus of the research is 3D printing with metal. A team of scientists at GE Global Research, the technology development arm for General Electric, have been…
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Giant 3D Printed Bones Help Students Learn About Extinct Moa Birds
Reading Time: 3 minutesMindkits is a “family run and kiwi-owned” tech company whose latest project brings extinct New Zealand moa bones to classrooms via 3D scanning. With models of the bones in hand, teachers and students can prep and print them in full size. The extinct New Zealand moa was an interesting bird. Flightless and looking…
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What Would it Take to 3D Print a 1:1 Scale Death Star?
Reading Time: 4 minutesA 3D printed Death Star in its original size and glory – that’s a 3D printing project of galactic proportions. Franklin Houser has crunched the numbers. So, what does it take to 3D print a 1:1 scale Death Star? The question I have asked myself depends on several variables. For simplicity, I will…
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Reading Time: 2 minutesOver on Amazon.com, select colors of 2.85mm colorFabb nGen filament can be had for silly prices compared to their usual premium. A hardy filament billed as an all-rounder for everyday 3D printing use, colorFabb’s nGen is a popular choice for ease of printing and vibrant colors. There’s no denying it’s not your…
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Take Part in 3D Printing a Massive Rosie the Riveter Sculpture
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn ambitious new collaboration between We the Builders and Adam Savage seeks to crowd-source and 3D print a six foot tall sculpture of Rosie the Riveter for the Nation of Makers Conference in June. The concept of We the Builders is simple to the point of genius. They assemble large sculptures of…
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GM and Autodesk Using Additive Manufacturing for Lighter Vehicles
Reading Time: 3 minutesGM is using Autodesk’s generative design technology and additive manufacturing to fabricate lighter automotive parts; this seat bracket is 40% lighter and 20% stronger than its predecessor. General Motors is using generative design software by Autodesk to develop the next generation of lightweight vehicles. According to the automaker, the new technology will…
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Project of the Week: Make Your Own Coin-Spitting Mario Question Block
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor this week’s Project of the Week, 3D print and Arduino your way to this coin-spitting Question Block from universe of Nintendo favorite, Mario. Loose change, shrapnel… whatever you call it, the blight of small denomination coins deserves better than sitting in a jar on the shelf at home. Which is perhaps…
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Google Takes Us to the Moon with its First VR Doodle
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo celebrate its first VR Google Doodle, the internet giant dreams big with a charming animation charting illusionist and film director Georges Méliès, creator of early cinema classic Le Voyage dans la Lune. Spicing up the search giant’s homepage since 1998, the Google Doodle has become something of a pop culture mainstay. Be…
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Audi Partners with EOS and SLM Solutions to Implement 3D Printing
Reading Time: 3 minutesAudi is pairing up with EOS who will implement modern 3D printing technology into automobile manufacturing. However, the German car manufacturer is also working with SLM and using their selective laser melting processes. Over the course of 30 years, 3D printing has proven itself as a useful technology in the development of automobiles,…
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