Archive for the ‘3D printing’ category: Page 100
Jul 11, 2016
Meet the First Artificial Animal
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: 3D printing, bioengineering, genetics, robotics/AI
Scientists genetically engineered and 3D-printed a biohybrid being, opening the door further for lifelike robots and artificial intelligence.
By Lisa Calhoun
Jul 11, 2016
This startup wants to replace the silicon in your smartphone with diamonds
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, mobile phones
Synthetic diamonds and the manufacturing of diamonds in mass quantity (including 3D Printing) is going to explode over the next few years with QC, Medical devices and technologies, smartphones, etc. Again, I hope Intel, Nvidia, HP, Xerox, etc. are listening.
Chicago-based startup Akhan Semiconducton wants to replace the silicon found in most modern-day electronics with diamonds derived from methane gas.
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Jul 11, 2016
Food Ink. the first 3D printing restaurant to serve nine-course 3D printed dinner in London
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, food
Want a gourmet cook; 3D printing is giving that to you.
Dutch 3D printed food innovators byFlow are ready to take their Food Ink pop-up restaurant to London, where they will be setting up a gastropub to serve nine-course 3D printed dinners from 25 to 27 July.
Jul 9, 2016
Hacking a desktop printer is one way to create flexible electronics
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: 3D printing
Taking your old Inkjet printer and turning it into a semi-3D Printer.
Want to make a smart coffee mug that signals “hot”? A customized printer can make the flexible circuits and supercapacitors you’ll need.
Jul 8, 2016
Watch This Amazing 3D Bioprinter Make Artificial Bones From Scratch
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical
If 3D printing is already impacting manufacturing today, what breakthroughs could bioprinting — or printing any mix of organic and inorganic materials — achieve tomorrow? In a recent video, a basic prototype of the Aether 1 bioprinter is shown printing two bones connected by a tendon using six materials that include synthetic bone, conductive ink, stem cells and graphene oxide.
While bioprinted organs are still a long way off — this video offers a glimpse into that future.
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Jul 8, 2016
Stealthy 3D Printing at Airshow?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, military
I hate that I am going to miss the Farnborough airshow.
The Farnborough airshow begins next week and will feature a number of announcements from the 3D printing industry. The show only takes place once every 2 years and will see a flurry of news and displays of the latest aviation technology. These include Boeing’s 737 MAX airliner with its 3D printed LEAP engines and also demonstrations by the first Lockheed Martin F-35 Lighting II, or Joint Strike Fighter, stealth jets to arrive in the UK.
Additive manufacturing company Norsk Titanium (NTi) hopes their announcements will make an equally large splash. During 2016 a number of press releases by the company have piqued the interest of insiders in the 3D printing industry and also in the aerospace industry. Outside of this group, the name Norsk Titanium may be relatively unknown.
Jul 6, 2016
Star Trek Competition Takes 3D Printing to Space
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: 3D printing, education, food, space, sustainability
Space and technology have collided in a recent design challenge hosted by Star Trek and NASA. Future Engineers has once again called upon students to push their creative boundaries. Since February 2016, they have been working hard to engineer 3D printable design concepts aimed at food sustainability in space. More than 400 students from 30 US states created amazing solutions that would aid astronauts in harvesting, preparing, eating and disposing of food while on long-duration space missions. A panel of judges from NASA, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Foundation, and Made In Space, Inc. selected Kyle Corrette from Phoenix, Arizona and Sreyash Sola from Asburn, Virginia as winners of their respective Teen Group and Junior Group. Judges also selected three finalists from each group, who were each awarded a MakerBot Replicator Mini Compact 3D printer for their school and a PancakeBot for their household. Winners Corrette and Sola received a grand prize trip to New York City for a private viewing of the Space Shuttle Enterprise with astronaut Mike Massimino at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum, as well as a VIP tour of MakerBot’s headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.
Read more about each finalist’s innovative design concept below:
Jul 6, 2016
Can we really grow aircraft?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, drones, transportation
BAE systems and a professor at Glasgow University have revealed a way to really grow drones with an advanced form of chemical 3D printing.
The news has already swept the mainstream news sites, even though this is little more than a theoretical exercise right now. Professor Lee Cronin, the man behind the concept, freely admits that he has a mountain to climb to turn this dream into a reality.
The video, then, which depicts a pair of printer heads laying the absolute basics in a vat before the drone literally grows from almost nothing, is really a pipe dream right now.
Jul 6, 2016
Super-strong and airy 3D-printed supermaterials inch closer to reality
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, materials
Researchers at the Masdar Institute are creating 3D printed high performance materials with custom-designed mechanical, thermal and electrical properties by manipulating the materials’ internal structures.