Using some of the most recent advances in manufacturing technology the chassis was 3d printed this time around enabling us to design with very little fabrication constraints
One of the nice things about using 3d printer technology is that the omni-wheels could be printed as a single piece without having to assemble any components.
#New additive manufacturing method builds up objects with real 3d curves instead of 2d layers Mataerial is a new 3d printing method that uses extrusion technology
While other 3d printing methods build up objects by successive 2d layering this process truly builds up objects in all three dimensions:
By combining these 3d curves a variety of shapes can be achieved that would be impossible with other 3d printing methods.
The propellers are driven by brushless Hacker A05-13s motors that are attached to the wings by 3d printed mountings.
The new system, described in the Journal of 3d printing and Additive manufacturing, was developed by Neri Oxman, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab;
which is housed in a 3d printed body, each pixel's photodiode is operated always in the photovoltaic mode.
#A New Frontier in 3d printing, Engineers Print Transparent Glass in 3d Engineers from MIT have developed a new system to print transparent glass in 3-D. This new system is the first to create strong, solid glass
The new system, described in the Journal of 3d printing and Additive manufacturing, was developed by Neri Oxman, an associate professor at the MIT Media Lab;
Although 3d printed meat may take a while to hit the market and win trust from consumers,
which uses a little 3d printed box that acts as a high-resolution microscope, can be used to see objects as small as two nanometers in width. or perspective,
perfecting its patented electro-spinning 3d printing technology. The process begins with liquid polymer and a collector plate.
not unlike the way a 3d printer would print in plastic. But this does it thousands of times a second
and stick them on a 3d avatar for use in teleconferencing or even video games Further applications exist for 3d printing, design, mapping, object recognition, facial recognition, gesture-based control and more.
when theye running low on energy. t like 3d printing upside down, says ASMBLD cofounder Petr Novikov.
#The revolutionary Lily Flying Camera Drone is brought to life thanks to 3d printing May 13, 2015 By Simonit no surprise that some of the most exciting tech to come out in years has been brought to consumers thanks in no small part to 3d printing.
For those involved with product development, this is nothing new-in fact, the term is referred often to as apid prototypingand has been in practice for the past few decades.
Among others who have leveraged 3d printing to help bring their product design to life is Antonie Balaresque,
Of course, a majority of this can be attributed to the quick development stages that have been enabled thanks to 3d printing.
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#Australian scientists develop 3d printed organic solar cells capable of powering a skyscraper It no secret that solar panels are set to change the way the world harnesses energy-especially
and have been able to achieve this manufacturing marvel thanks to 3d printers that have been modified to print with solar ink."
#FDA approves first 3d printed prescription drug, a dissolvable tablet that treats seizures While wee seen a lot of interesting 3d printed medical applications appear in surgery rooms already think about 3d printed titanium implants
or plastic replicas of organs most 3d bioprinted innovations will easily take years before reaching patients.
However, one New jersey-based Farmaceutical company called Aprecia is hard at work pioneering another 3d printed medical application:
3d printed pills that can be taken orally. What more, Aprecia have just been awarded FDA approval for the first of 3d printed drug of its kind, the epilepsy drug Spritam.
The company in question is a relatively young pharmaceutical company based in East Winsor, New jersey, and claims to be the world only company to utilize 3d printing technology to develop drugs.
And as they say in their press release, Spritam is only the first of the 3d printed drugs they are planning to develop.
As the company argues, their new drug could play a key role in treating a variety of seizure afflictions.
does a drug like this need to be 3d printed? Surely epilepsy drugs already exist? Well you would be absolutely right,
and seniors, having an option for patients to take their medication as prescribed is important to managing this disease. nd that where 3d printing comes in.
Aprecia uses a technology they call Zipdose 3d printing which essentially revolves around Powder-liquid 3d printing to create porous structures that rapidly disintegrate
when coming into contact with liquids. Essentially, this creates a very efficient way of delivering high doses of the medication.
these 3d printed pills are (as you can see in the clip below) insanely quick. precia developed its Zipdose Technology platform using the 3dp technology that originated at MIT.
this 3d printed approach to drugs does open up a wide range of options for more customized drugs.
Doctors in the US already have access to a government-sponsored 3d printing repository, through which they can share designs to aid in medical treatment,
and 3d printed drugs could be a welcome addition to that system. In short, Spritam is definitely paving the way for a new generation of 3d printed drugs.
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#Open Space agency gears up to launch open source 3d printed telescope For those of us who love space
open-source telescope that can be generated (mostly by a 3d printer, controlled by simple robotic parts, and that can capture images with a smartphone camera over the past two years:
Although Parr and OSA first announced the 3d printed telescope project back in 2014, they have spent the past year further refining the design and performing a number of beta tests.
#Made In Space successfully completes 3d printing in vacuum of space, outside the ISS 3d printers have slowly
and very successfully been creeping into the aerospace industry, where giants like NASA are even embracing the technology as a way of manufacturing spacecraft parts on long-term missions in the future.
which was founded with the express focus of zero gravity 3d printing, has announced just that they have concluded successfully 3d printing experiments in the vacuum of space.
To explain Made In Space was founded in 2010 as the first space manufacturing specialist in the world.
In their own words, their they have realized over more than 30,000 hours of 3d printing testing, with more than 400 parabolas of microgravity tests.
building and operation of the first 3d printer in space, called the 3d printing In Zero-Ge Experiment.
This Zero-G 3d printer is the first machine to operate in zero gravity, and was launched into orbit on September 21, 2014.
It served as a test bed for understanding the long-term effects of microgravity on 3d printing and the parts as well crucial information for use in future space exploration.
the team since moved on to 3d printing in the vacuum of space outside the ISS. ast month Made In Space successfully completed a round of tests,
proving that their next generation of 3d printers can operate in the vacuum of space, they now announce on their website.
The zero gravity 3d printer used in space. This latest mission is set to be a precursor for the company commercial Additive manufacturing Facility,
which various specimens were 3d printed using aerospace-grade thermopolymers. hose specimens will be tested this month to determine
Preliminary results suggest that the vacuum-based 3d printing process works as expected, without any show stoppers,
this AMF 3d printer could be launched by the end of this year to provide manufacturing services to NASA and the US National Laboratory on the ISS. 3d printing,
#Scientists develop 3d printed device to help solve cocktail-party problem Engineers are increasingly employing 3d printers to solve complex issues in the field of robotics,
This is again the case with a 3d printed solution for a problem almost as old as robots equipped with microphones themselves:
having become known as the ocktail-party problem However, with a very simple 3d printed solution, scientists from Duke university have now come up with a good,
3d printing offers a fantastic solution. What they have essentially come up with is a large thick, 3d printed plastic disk, featuring 36 openings on its side,
and diverse honeycomb passages leading to a single microphone in the center of the disk.
because the unique 3d printed shapes create variations that can be picked up by the single sensor.
It just shows what you can achieve with a bit of 3d printed prototyping
#Shanghai Children Medical center opens China first pediatric 3d printing medical research unit When it comes to applications for 3d printing in the medical industry,
Chinese doctors have been among the most prominent supporters of the technology as of late and have used it for a myriad of medical-related purposes.
Within the past few months alone, Chinese doctors have used 3d printing to aide in a highly-complex hip-replacement surgical procedure for a 42-year-old woman,
remove a tumor from a 60-year-old woman kidney and to help repair a 28-year-old woman atlantoaxial dislocation condition.
Thanks to the continued success of using 3d printing to aid in surgical procedures the country-along with 3d printing giant Materialise-proudly unveiled their first pediatric-specific 3d digital medical research facility in Shanghai at the Shanghai Children Medical center on Thursday, August 13th.
Among other projects, the new Pediatric 3d printing Unit at the hospital will focus on pediatric medical imaging, digital modelling, 3d fabrication,
and the researching new ways of using 3d printing in a number of clinical applications. According to Kim Francois, a spokeswoman from Materialise, the company will contribute with training for digital modeling and 3d printing procedures, clinical software development and technology support.
While 3d printing has proven to be effective in surgical procedures for patients of all ages it has been especially effective in cases for young children-especially newborns
-whose internal organs are both smaller and more sensitive than adult organs. By creating a 3d printed organ replica in advance of a potentially life-threatening surgery,
doctors can both practice their procedure with the replica as well as use it as a reference during the actual surgery. or example,
when we are working out treatment for a child with congenital heart disease we can create a 3d dissection model of the patient
According to experts from Materialise, a majority of the 3d printing applications for the pediatric unit will focus on complex diseases including congenital heart disease, premature skull formations and congenital bronchial softening.
Assuming that the new Pediatric 3d printing Unit is a success, it will likely only be a matter of time before other hospitals around the world open up their own 3d printing labs,
too t
#3d4md turns solar powered suitcase 3d printer into medical tool for saving lives in third world and on Mars As regular readers will have noticed doubtlessly,
3d printing technology is already steadily making a name for itself as a genuine and very useful medical technology.
But despite all the 3d printed organ replicas, bioprinted innovations and even plastic hand prosthetics out there, the reality is that very few are available to a broad public.
People across the third world have very little access to basic medical care, let alone to 3d printed tools and prosthetics themselves.
But that could be changing in the near future as one Canadian doctor recently founded a startup that is employing 3d printers for medical care in hard to reach places.
Called 3dmd and led by dr. Julielynn Wong, this fantastic initiative uses multipurpose solar-powered suitcase 3d printers that can be used to manufacture all sorts of medical tools in the remote corners of the world and even in space by astronauts.
This inspiring 3d printing venture has been developed by actual public health physician dr. Wong, who realized that 3d printers are making life in the west much easier,
while people in the rest of the world haven even completed previous medical steps yet.
So why not combine the two into a single package? ver one billion people lack access to electricity.
she says. oday it possible to use low-cost 3d printers to make medical supplies locally on demand using solar energy.
Our mission is to use 3d printers to deliver the highest standard of medical care in the most challenging places to those who need it the most.
This fantastic project has been under development for a few years now the first 3d printed tools were tested medically way back in 2013
Recently publishing a medical article called"Solar-Powered Suitcase 3d printer Makes Medical Supplies"in the September issue of the Aerospace medicine Human Performance journal,
the key component in this entire venture is a custom-made and very impressive solar-powered, plug-and-play ultraportable 3d printing system.
While wee seen compact 3d printers before, very few can actually be transported as carry on luggage in airlines by singe physicians.
can take these suitcase 3d printers to any remote village in Africa that hasn even been put on the grid yet. his 3d printing system is capable of making a range of medical supplies,
if one or two of these 3d printers stay behind to enable locals to create their own (medical) 3d printed solutions.
When I started using 3d printers, I realized that this technology could be applied in so many ways to help others.
I began to imagine how doctors could use portable 3d printers to make medical supplies for patients during visits,
the current second edition of the 3d printer has been made entirely with off-the-shelf components. he entire system has to be within the maximum size limits for carry on baggage to allow safer handling of delicate parts
Think 3d printed finger splints handles for scalpels and dental instruments. Even educational anatomy models are no problem at all.
I decided to use solar energy to power my 3d printer to make medical supplies during my simulated Mars mission.
they do already want to encourage everyone to design their own 3d4md solar-powered plug-and-play 3d printer using off the shelf parts p
#More revealed about 3d printed Acetabular Cup formally approved for hip surgery in China Chinese scientists
and surgeons have been at the forefront of 3d printed medical applications over the last few years,
and regular readers will have noticed doubtlessly a lot of 3d printed components being used in surgeries in Chinese hospitals. And last week, we learned that this number is doubtlessly set to skyrocket,
as China's Food and Drug Administration announced that China's self-developed 3d printed hip replacement (joint) has been certified commercially,
new reports are coming in about how remarkable these 3d printed titanium acetabular cups, that have been approved formally for use in China,
the approved 3d printed hip joint prosthesis was developed by Dr. Zhang Ke, Liu Zhong Jun, and Cai Hong of Peking University Third Hospital in cooperation with AK Medical, a Chinese private medical company.
The 3d printer used in the manufacturing of the hip joint was designed by a Swedish company Arcam AB and uses the Electronic Beam Melting (EBM) method of manufacturing,
Both predict that 3d printing can reduce that price by a third or even half. Breaking the monopoly with 3d printing should also reduce other prices So how does this 3d printed innovation help them?
Well only the acetabular cup in the entire artificial hip is 3d printed, with the rest not being so very different.
The hip prosthesis is composed of four parts: a ceramic femoral head, a femoral stem, an acetabular cup,
only the Cup is manufactured by 3d printers. Deputy Director at the hospital Cai Hong explains, the acetabular cup is manufactured by the most advanced 3d metal printing technology.
while 3d printing only requires one. Doctors send data to the manufacturing enterprise, where an engineer builds 3d models with it.
Layer by layer, the 3d printer tranforms titanium alloy powder into cups with micro-hole structure,
and encountered a metal 3d printer. From his long-term clinical experience in the medical field Zhang Ke realized that it can be used widely in medical applications.
For the next step, Zhang Ke began leading the Group of Orthopedic Joints team to develop the first Chinese 3d printed hip products.
However, as tests revealed, 3d printing does more than reduce prices. Just a few weeks ago, Cai Hong office replaced an existing Chinese-made artificial acetabular cup with a 3d printed one.
The patient in question was Wang Xiulan from Shandong Province. She walked around with the earlier model for five years
while the 3d printed version is rough and covered with small holes. This structures mimics that of human bones and increases stability while providing a good environment for regrowth.
So far, dozens of patients have received 3d printed hip replacement surgery, and ll the clinical results were very good,
However, 3d printed hip replacement can be used for at least 20 years, he says. While this is all good news,
Plans already exist for 3d printed artificial vertebral bodies and axis, among others, but that will take a while.
while the 3d printed axis is at the clinical trial stage. This will take quite a bit longer than with the hip replacements,
Cai Hong explained. hina's 3d printing implant registration and approval process is relatively long; to get our research and development of artificial hip joints from clinical research finally approved took 40 months,
Also problematic is customized that 3d printed orthopedic implants are restricted still officially in use. Cai Hong expressed regret that, at the present,
adding that he hopes that these 3d printed hip parts will act as promotional pieces within the drug administration system. t is said that at the end of year,
#3d printed Tadpole Endoscope device can improve cancer diagnoses Very recently, we reported on 3d printed icrofishrobots that can be injected directly into our blood to perform complex medical tasks.
Now, yet another aquatic creature has inspired scientists and 3d engineers within the medical community. A team from the Institute of Precision Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong kong as developed 3d printed tadpole-like devices that can improve diagnosis of various cancers by entering the patient stomach
and wirelessly transmitting images of what it sees. A traditional procedure for diagnosing cancers of the gastrointestinal (GI TRACT
The new 3d printed device, called the Tadpole Endoscope (TE), is a reliable and relatively noninvasive solution that could improve the very way we diagnose cancers.
and the ingeniously 3d printed shell, which houses control electronics and the video camera holder. According to the engineers, who published their breakthrough research in the journal HKIE Transactions
#American Wind turns wind-generated electricy on its head with 3d printed Microcube Aerospace engineer Robert Yost has developed
In order to demonstrate how his 3d printed Microcubes could revolutionize the way we generate renewable energy, Yost, the founder of American Wind, will drive across the United states in an electric vehicle powered by four Microcubes without stopping even once to plug in the battery for a recharge.
durable 3d printed plastic parts and assembles that are indistinguishable from injection molded-product parts in all aspects except for time and money:
and in a quarter of the time. uickparts enables us to use 3d printing to explore what works
and conductive and resistive inksnto a single 3d printed object, opening up new possibilities for entirely 3d printed wearable devices, soft robots and electronics.
While we have seen a rise PCB 3d printer technology, as well as some very recent 3d printed wearables that embed electronic components,
current 3d printing technology struggles with multi-material integrationhat is, the seamless and precise transition between flexible materials, rigid materials,
and electrical circuitry without stopping the printing process. This is because most approaches to mixing complex fluids are passive:
"The applications of active mixing technology within 3d printing are significant. The team demonstrated that silicone elastomers can be printed seamlessly into gradient architectures composed of soft and rigid regions (meaning that for wearable devices,
Previously, the idea of mixing material systems on the fly in 3d printing was merely a concept, however Lewisteam has made it realistic and achievable with today technology.
these acting mixing and switching printheads provide an important advance for multi-material 3d printing, said Lewis. hey allow one to programmably control both materials composition and structure at the microscale,
#Scientists develop 3d printed Edge Detector that sorts sound waves If youe a naval captain using sonar, a gynaecologist conducting ultrasounds,
Now, scientists from The swiss Federal Institute of technology (ETH), Zurich, have used 3d printing to develop a new method to differentiate very weak and short sound waves from longer ones.
the new 3d printed technology makes it possible to detect only the outline of objects, by amplifying the evanescent waves
The 3d printed instrument which enables amplification of evanescent waves, is pipe-shaped polymer structure with a square cross-section, the inside
At the head of the 3d printed structure, four microphones measure the transmitted sound. To create an outline image of an object,
They attached the 3d printed polymer structure along with microphones, to a robot close to the object surface,
Without the 3d printed device to amplify evanescent sound waves and minimise other noise, a less precise image would have been obtained.
#ORNL unveils integrated 3d printed house and car that produce and share clean energy Two of the most pressing and discussed issues facing the world today include the global housing crisis,
and has increased dramatically global warming. 3d printing technology has made already huge contributions to address both of these concerns individually,
such as affordable 3d printed homes and efficient 3d printed wind turbines, however energy waste in manufacturing, buildings and transportation is connected fundamentally real breakthrough means solving them together rather than separately.
a first-of-its-kind design that uses an integrated symbiotic energy system to share energy between a single-unit, 3d printed solar powered house and a 3d printed electric car.
Thanks to a collaboration between more than 20 major industry partners and with the innovative use of 3d printing technology
The fact that both house and car are completely 3d printed is an impressive feat in itself.
To do so, they turned to their own BAAM (Big Area Additive manufacturing) system and a mighty 3d printing machine known as Bertha,
The team took advantage of 3d printing instant feedback and rapid prototyping to experiment with new shapes, printing speeds, battery technologies, cleaner burning fuels,
The fact that both house and car are 3d printed would be impressive enough in its own right, however the true innovation comes from the integrated energy-sharing platform,
#Scientists announce a method for 3d printing objects out of living human cells Scientists at the University of Florida developed a way to print detailed soft structures from a 3d printer.
The new 3d printer is able to print traditionally mpossibleshapes, such as a thin tube tied in a knot.
The researchers believe that this technique overcomes several limits of 3d printing, and could be useful for tissue engineering, providing invaluable aid to neurosurgeons and cancer researchers.
or the tendency of the 3d printed object to deform after it is 3d printed because of surface tension, gravity,
Using the gel as a matrix material for 3d printing combats the problems associated with solid and liquid equivalents.
A more solid matrix could easily be damaged by the moving parts of a 3d printer, whilst a liquid one would not be able to support a detailed structure.
because the gel can support the incomplete structure as it is being 3d printed. Researchers now can inject different materials out of the 3d printer nozzle to draw structures.
These materials can include anything from silicone polymers to living cells. Then, once 3d printed, the gel can simply be washed gently away,
leaving the 3d printed object intact. Although there is a risk of very tiny molecules slipping past the individual grains of gel,
most of the materials that the researchers are interested in working with are more big enough for this to not be a serious problem. hatever it is that comes out of the nozzle is trapped in space wherever we place it,
explained Angelini. o 3d printing is no longer a game of making a solid material that has to support itself;
Angelini explains that the concept of embedded 3d printing-a material being printed into a liquid or solid substance rather than empty space-is something researchers have been trying to perfect for years, and for good reason."
"It changes the way you think about 3d printing, "he says.""It goes from being about melting certain materials
Impressively, their 3d printer can print at a resolution of 1 micron, or 1%the width of a human hair.
This high level of precision is why the researchers are confident in their 3d printer ability to contribute to the building of flexible electronics
#Graphene 3d files patent for low-cost, toxic-free process for producing high grade graphene for 3d printing Graphene 3d Lab has filed a non-provisionary patent pertaining to a new method for the preparation
which would dramatically increase the potential for large scale production of high grade graphene, one of the most groundbreaking and highly-sought out materials in 3d printing manufacturing.
and separating GNP. 3d printed graphene battery by Graphene 3d Labdiscovered in 2004, graphene is considered a sort of oly grailin 3d printing and manufacturing materials.
Made from carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal sheet only one atom thick, graphene offers extraordinary properties:
including 3d printing services. The honeycomb structure of graphene"The business implications associated with this filing are significant and near term.
"The Calverton, New york-based Graphene 3d Lab is already well-known for the development of proprietary graphene-based nanocomposite materials for 3d printing,
the widespread commercial availability of high grade graphene is sure to impact 3d printing manufacturers, allowing more and more companies to innovate
#3d printed soft robot hand can pick up and identify just about anything When you picture robotic hands,
Now, a new generation of modular, 3d printed soft robot grippers can easily pick up over 70 everyday times of different weights
The soft and highly compliant hand consists of three individual 3d printed fingers that can be attached to existing robots.
which beings with 3d printing a set of model and mold parts. The developers also prioritized a modular interface
simply by swapping out the 3d printed interface. As the video below shows, the impressive gripper can truly pick up just about anything.
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