While the name “Elasto Plastic” sounds like an 80s punk band, it is, in fact, a new material from 3D printing company Shapeways. (VIDEO)
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MIT’s silkworm-powered, fantastical, biological 3D printer
The Mediated Matter group at MIT researches “how digital fabrication technologies mediate between matter and environment to radically transform the design and construction of objects, buildings and systems.”
Official Opening Shaping Matter EVENT, 25 June 2013, Kortijk, Belgium
The opening will take place from 18.00 – 20.25
First Full Colour 3D Desktop Printer announced by botObjects (VIDEO)
A game changer for the 3D desktop printing industry
American Graphite to develop 3D printing material
American Graphite Technologies, a mineral exploration and technology development company, announces Letter of Intent with a European institute for research and development collaboration for 3D printing. (VIDEO)
PLA that smells like Strawberry
Besides ecologically colored PLA Kristof Deruyttere also received PLA that smells like strawberry, this review discusses the latter.
3D printed iPad stylus using carbomorph
The Additive Manufacturing research group in the School of Engineering at the University of Warwick recently sent some of their carbomorph material to Dave White, Subject Coordinator for Design &Technology at Clevedon School in Bristol (VIDEO).
Phantom Geometry, an entirely new production methodology Using UV Light
Students Invent A New Method Of 3-D Printing (VIDEO).
Embedding electronics in 3D-Printed products
Argun Cencen, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering will speak about this research topic.
TNO invented technique to print hard plastics
TNO researchers have developed an extruder that can handle relatively viscous liquids