Schlagwort: technology
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Precious Plastic Creates Recycled iPhone Case with Help From 3D Hubs
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe global community Precious Plastic has created a recycled iPhone case with CNC milling from 3D Hubs. The organization has created an open source production ecosystem that includes a plastic waste shredder, an filament extrusion machine, an injection molder, and a compressor to help process the molds. The mass production of plastic has led…
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Type A Machines Retire to that Great 3D Printer in the Sky
Reading Time: 3 minutesDespite their multiple innovations in the desktop 3D printer market, California-based manufacturer Type A Machines has gone out of business. The past year has seen a dramatic change to the desktop 3D printer industry; the market is flooded with cheap DIY 3D printer kits, and established hardware manufacturers are struggling to compete.…
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Shred the Snow: CAPiTA Improves Snowboards with 3D Printed Sidewall Technology
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe snowboard manufacturer CAPiTA is using its patented FUS3D 3D printing technique to develop recyclable, durable, and strong thermoplastic sidewalls that attach to the board’s wooden core as a single piece. There are few words that can describe the bliss of snowboarding down a mountain slope. The fresh snow makes you feel like…
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i.Materialise Adds New Untreated Brass to Finishing Options
Reading Time: 2 minutesi.materialise is adding untreated brass to its range of finishing options – print your designs in basic brass without polish, coating or plating to give them a vintage look. If you’re 3D printing jewelry or miniatures and want to create a vintage appearance, you’ll be interested to hear about i.materialise’s most recent…
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Researchers use X-rays to Understand and Avoid Metal 3D Print Defects
Reading Time: 3 minutesDepartment of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory researchers used X-rays to learn more about 3D printing defects and understand how to print 3D metal parts without defects. Using 3D printing to create metal parts for cars, ships or planes has many advantages such as enabling manufacturers to create complex parts on-the-spot. However,…
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3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Conferences 2018
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLocation: São Paulo, Brazil What is it?: Participants will see 3D printing business applications and demonstrations of the latest developments in printers and services, including programs for designers, artists, and manufacturers. Strength: At the Inside 3D Printing show you will see how 3D printing is revolutionizing the manufacturing, jewelry, medicine, architecture, the aerospace industry and many…
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New 4D Printing Method May Revolutionize Tissue Engineering And Drug Delivery
Reading Time: 2 minutes3D printed object made from hydrogel shapeshifts after it has been printed. Engineers at Rutgers, the state university of New Jersey, and the New Jersey Institute of Technology have developed a 4D printing method which may find application in tissue engineering and targeted drug delivery systems. The 4D printing method uses a…
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Two Big Strategic Changes from 3D Hubs
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe open peer-to-peer marketplace pioneered by 3D Hubs has been relegated, say the company founders, to make room for a broader manufacturing platform driven by CAD-CAM technologies. Don’t Miss: 3D Hubs CEO Responds to Criticism Over Recent Platform Changes Once upon a time, 3D Hubs could be simply described as an online…
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Free STL Files & 3D Printer Models – 35 Best Sites
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYobi3D is a bleeding edge search engine that helps you find free STL files, and then offers comprehensive features like 3D visualization, sharing, and even one-click 3D printing. With this workflow, you can select any number of 3D printer models and have them fabricated without even touching a 3D printer. The…
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Kid’s kitchen beeps with the help of an Arduino
Reading Time: < 1 minuteKid’s kitchen beeps with the help of an Arduino Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 While Roald Hendriks is quite pleased with the build quality of the IKEA DUKTIG play kitchen, it does lack one thing—the ability to say “beep.” This feature was requested by his daughter, who for her third…
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Rotary encoders and Arduino combine for awesome universal remote
Reading Time: 2 minutesRotary encoders and Arduino combine for awesome universal remote Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 In his latest hack, “Matlek” has come up with an entirely new take on the universal remote, using a pair of rotary encoders instead of an array of buttons to output up to 400 individual signals. One…
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Instrumentally Challenged? Strumbot Could Solve Your Problem
Reading Time: 2 minutesClaire, from the YouTube channel Fake It and Make It, came up with a way to make playing the guitar slightly easier for the instrumentally challenged. She used an Arduino, 3D printing and chopsticks to create the Strumbot. Anyone who’s ever had guitar lessons knows the tedium in learning how to get…
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Sinterit Lisa Desktop SLS 3D Printer: Review the Facts!
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat makes the Sinterit Lisa so unique is the successful integration of SLS technology into a compact and easy to use machine. Generally speaking, there are a number of advantages that SLS technology offers over FDM and SLA, such as the ability to print without supports, nest multiple objects in a single…
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Automatic guitar strumming with Arduino Uno and chopsticks
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAutomatic guitar strumming with Arduino Uno and chopsticks Arduino Team — January 31st, 2018 If you like to make music, but don’t consider yourself particularly talented, YouTuber Make It And Fake It has come up with an innovative solution. Her device uses an Arduino Uno, along with a hobby servo motor…
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How to 3D Print a Better Nose with PDMS Polymer
Reading Time: 3 minutesA combination of two different PDMS polymers allows for 3D printing of complex geometries with better mechanical characteristics and better biological adhesion, according to new research from Penn State University. PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane, or silicone) is used to make lab-on-a-chip devices, organ-on-a-chip devices, two- and three-dimensional cell culture platforms, and biological machines. The…
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Grohe Introduces 3D Printing to Streamline Design, Development, Production
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrohe, the world leader in supplying sanitary and water fittings, is planning to expand its production of fittings and incorporate 3D printing technology into its prototyping processes. Looks like Grohe Water Technology AG has big plans for 2018 including expanding its production of fittings by using 3D printing in a new pilot project.…
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Sail Away on DIY Electric Mini Boat Made with 3D Printing and Laser Cutting
Reading Time: 4 minutesIndustrial designer Josh Tulberg has created the Mini Boat, a 6ft electric boat manufactured with 3D printing and laser cutting technology. You can order a DIY kit from his website Rapid Whale, or build the Mini Boat from scratch using his step-by-step instructions. Meet Josh Tulberg, a Bay Area-based industrial designer and…
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Austiwawa 3D Prints and Launches CO2-Powered Rockets with Onboard Camera
Reading Time: 3 minutesA popular YouTuber named Austin used 3D printing to create rockets that launch with compressed CO2. He tried to modify the rockets to include an onboard camera, and his entire trial and error process was captured on video. Not only is 3D printing technology being applied to industries across the world, it’s…
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Researchers 3D Bioprint the First Ears Made From Childen’s Own Cells
Reading Time: 3 minutesA team of Chinese plastic surgeons and tissue engineers have devised a method to 3D print cells which assemble into a replica of a patient’s ear. Five children suffering from unilateral microtia in China are the first patients to receive newly grafted ears made from their own cells. Tissue engineers made the…
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Add an Arduino-based tachometer to your CNC router
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdd an Arduino-based tachometer to your CNC router Arduino Team — January 30th, 2018 In order to get a good cut with a CNC router, the cutting tool speed needs to be properly set. Since his CNC didn’t come with RPM feedback, Troy Barbour came up with his own solution using an Arduino…
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Dotter is an Arduino-powered dot matrix printer
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDotter is an Arduino-powered dot matrix printer Arduino Team — January 29th, 2018 While largely supplanted by more modern forms of printing, dot matrix printers still have their fans. Few, however, are more dedicated than Nikodem Bartnik, who constructed his own model that pulls paper up to 55cm wide and as long…
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Fall asleep with the help of LEDs and an Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesFall asleep with the help of LEDs and an Arduino Arduino Team — January 29th, 2018 While some fall asleep nearly immediately with no assistance, others need the drone of a fan or a dedicated noisemaker to help them relax. The Fall Asleep Device, also known as “FADing,” by Youz takes a…
