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3D printed titanium cool-bars help advance particle detection science

December 1, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

One hundred meters beneath the mountains of Switzerland and France sits the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator ever built. This impressive construction is used by the European Organization for … [Read more...] about 3D printed titanium cool-bars help advance particle detection science

Filed Under: Additive Manufacturing, Out of the Box, Powder Bed Fusion Tagged With: 3dSystems

How 3D printing can merge biological and digital techniques in architecture

December 1, 2020 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

The use of 3D printing in architecture is not a focus of this website. Occasionally, though, an interesting story comes along that expands the use of 3D printing and that can maybe ignite ideas in others. According to Alberto T. Estevez founder … [Read more...] about How 3D printing can merge biological and digital techniques in architecture

Filed Under: Architecture, Out of the Box Tagged With: felixprinters

Meet the need for speed and market volatility with on-demand manufacturing

January 13, 2020 By WTWH Editor Leave a Comment

Today’s volatile market – no matter the industry – wreaks havoc on even the best inventory strategies. On-demand manufacturing, though, gives engineers a way to use their inventory model to create the parts they need, when they need them. No more … [Read more...] about Meet the need for speed and market volatility with on-demand manufacturing

Filed Under: News, Out of the Box Tagged With: protolabs

What is polymer directed energy deposition (DED) for 3D printing and how can it benefit you?

July 26, 2019 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Dr. Natalie Rudolph, Vice President of Research and Development, AREVO For almost a decade now, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has been one of the fastest growing areas in manufacturing. This growth has resulted in significant efforts in material and … [Read more...] about What is polymer directed energy deposition (DED) for 3D printing and how can it benefit you?

Filed Under: 3D Printing Basics, Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Directed Energy Deposition, Featured, Industrial, Out of the Box Tagged With: arevoinc

How engineers can help reduce unnecessary plastic pollution

April 24, 2019 By Leslie Langnau 1 Comment

3D printing/additive manufacturing is only one source of plastic pollution in our ecosystem. The engineers at GoEngineer offer some suggestions on dealing with unwanted plastic from 3D printing as well as from other sources. Jacob Bakovsky| … [Read more...] about How engineers can help reduce unnecessary plastic pollution

Filed Under: Out of the Box Tagged With: Goengineer

Novel ear care medical device wins Protolabs Cool Idea! Award

February 12, 2019 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Every year more than 12 million Americans visit their physicians for impacted earwax removal. This condition occurs when enough earwax accumulates to cause symptoms such as pain, fullness, itching, odor, tinnitus, discharge, cough, or hearing loss. … [Read more...] about Novel ear care medical device wins Protolabs Cool Idea! Award

Filed Under: Additive Manufacturing, Medical, Out of the Box, Rapid Prototyping Tagged With: protolabs

How to not get fired and build your own inductive charging system with the help of 3D printing

January 24, 2019 By Leslie Langnau 2 Comments

Ryan Dark, Technical Support Manager, GoEngineer While sitting in a quarterly operating and planning meeting next to Brad Hanson, who at the time was CEO of GoEngineer, I saw he had the newest iPhone, and I asked if he had used its inductive … [Read more...] about How to not get fired and build your own inductive charging system with the help of 3D printing

Filed Under: Out of the Box Tagged With: Goengineer

3D printing enables origami structures strong enough to support 100 times their weight

October 22, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Origami structures offer a number of benefits that could be useful to a range of applications from biomedical devices to equipment used in space exploration. Some of these benefits are low weight, expandability, and high strength. Until recently, … [Read more...] about 3D printing enables origami structures strong enough to support 100 times their weight

Filed Under: Additive Manufacturing, Aerospace, Automotive, Featured, Materials, Medical, Out of the Box, Vat Photopolymerization Tagged With: georgiainstituteoftechnology

What’s next? Swarm 3D printing, i.e., synchronized 3D printing

October 2, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a technology where two robots can work in unison to 3D-print. In this case, the robots are 3D printing a concrete structure. This method of concurrent 3D … [Read more...] about What’s next? Swarm 3D printing, i.e., synchronized 3D printing

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Architecture, Extrusion, Featured, Out of the Box, Rapid MFG Tagged With: nanyanguniversity

3D printing complex objects from graphene

August 23, 2018 By Leslie Langnau Leave a Comment

Researchers from Virginia Tech and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have developed a novel way to 3D print complex objects from graphene, often used for applications in the battery and aerospace industries. Previously, researchers could only … [Read more...] about 3D printing complex objects from graphene

Filed Under: 3D Printers, Additive Manufacturing, Materials, Out of the Box Tagged With: virginiatech

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