The so-called Fingerreader, a prototype produced by a 3-D printer, fits like a ring on the user s finger, equipped with a small camera that scans text.
#We will be 3d printing our clothes in 10 years: Ray Kurzweil Openknit 3d printing is one of those new things that gets hyped all the damn time.
Retail UPS stores carrying pay-peruse printers, Makerbots in every school, a new brick in the Great Wall,
and guns, guns, guns, to name a few examples. Video) There has been a lot of hype lately about 3d printing,
but it's not for nothing. As noted futurist and self-proclaimed technology oracle Ray Kurzweil said at Google S i/O conference last week, the hype,
Naturally, you can print a bunch of the parts to make the digital loom with a 3d printer.
refinement, and much better printers and software. Eventually, printing clothes is going to be as easy as ordering a burger and fries from your smart watch.
Print green t-shirt, wear for a day, throw in the recycler, print blue-t-shirt (with recycled clothes matter) for tomorrow.
The cheap printing of socks and underwear doesn t look that far off, except that, unsurprisingly,
#Reinventing the 3d printer to make it faster 3d printers are slow. They are so slow that in the time it would take to print a screwdriver,
Video) And the frustrating thing is that existing 3d printers could technically print faster. It s just a matter of using an extruder that puts out thicker ropes of material,
allowing the printer to lay down more material with the same number of movements. But thicker layers means sacrificing the printer s resolution,
because the place where one layer ends and the next begins becomes obvious. So a national lab and a corporation set out in the past year to completely reinvent the concept of the 3d printer.
Here s what they are working on. Oak ridge s monster machine Oak ridge National Laboratory decided to make a faster printer by embracing thicker layers.
Using Cincinnati Inc. s huge BAAM 3d printer it is working toward a machine that could print 200 to 500 times faster than a standard desktop 3d printer.
A few more details about the Oak ridge-Cincinnati partnership emerged today on 3dprint. com, which reported that BAAM is capable of printing objects as large as tables
and chairs by extruding plastic in layers 0. 3 inches wide. Chairs recently on display at the RAPID conference each took about 2 hours and 30 minutes to print.
On a normal printer, a chair would take days to print and need to be printed in pieces.
The site also reported that Oak ridge is considering processing 3d printed objects after they are printed
is basically a series of 3d printers along a track. The printers deposit different colors and types of materials on phones whizzing past them on an oval-shaped track.
The system is an ingenious way to work around the typically tricky process of building a full-color 3d printer,
which uses just one or a few nozzles to switch back and forth between colors. 3d Systems does make a line of color printers,
but even the largest units would have trouble keeping up with the volume of phones Google expects to need.
We ve become accustomed to plastic-based 3d printers that use one extruder to slowly go back
and in the future other techniques could trickle down to desktop 3d printers. The Robox, for example, uses one extruder that prints a large volume of plastic,
The first desktop 3d printers, which have driven heavy interest in the 25 year old professional printer industry,
only appeared 10 years ago. As the industry continues to mature and become more competitive,
its function is mostly to disrupt#3d printing#as a rapid-prototyping system. Consequently, there was no existing product that met Lowe s retail needs.
and 3d printing can improve people lives. Which is a hell of a lot more entertaining than watching Nigel de Jong roughing up Xabi Alonso again n
Developer kits available through the Kickstarter for $200 offer barebones SCIO modules and come with CAD designs for 3d printers.
#A 3d printing breakthrough: 3d printed biological tissue 3d printing capabilities are limited rather despite the excitement that 3-D printing has generated.
It can be used to make complex shapes, but most commonly only out of plastics. Even manufacturers using an advanced version of the technology known as additive manufacturing typically have expanded the material palette only to a few types of metal alloys.
But what if 3-D printers could use a wide assortment of different materials, from living cells to semiconductors, mixing
and matching the nkswith precision? Jennifer Lewis, a materials scientist at Harvard university, is developing the chemistry
This means 3-D printing technology could make objects that sense and respond to their environment. ntegrating form and function,
s the next big thing that needs to happen in 3-D printing. A group at Princeton university has printed a bionic ear, combining biological tissue and electronics,
But even among these impressive efforts to extend the possibilities of 3-D printing Lewis lab stands out for the range of materials
In a basement lab a few hundred yards from Lewis office, her group has jury-rigged a 3-D printer, equipped with a microscope,
Another, larger 3-D printer, using printing nozzles with multiple outlets to print multiple inks simultaneously,
and easily destroyed as they are forced through the printing nozzle. In all cases, though, the inks must be formulated to flow out of the nozzle under pressure
Before coming to Harvard from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign last year, Lewis had spent more than a decade developing 3-D printing techniques using ceramics, metal nanoparticles, polymers,
Printing blood vessels was an encouraging step toward artificial tissues capable of the complex biological functions found in organs.
#3d printing is transforming manufacturing and General electric wants to lead the way A 20-year-old Indonesian student has helped General electric save considerable sums of money in development
And that all thanks to 3d printing. While it may be today buzzword, in reality it just a fraction of the overall manufacturing process and General electric wants to lead the way.
Furstoss told attendees at the Inside 3d printing conference in New york on Thursday that the aker movementis revolutionizing how the traditional manufacturers look at their own design
The Fairfield, CT-headquartered conglomerate has been pushing hard in the 3d printing and the next-generation manufacturing space.
and advantages that 3d printing has to offer, it invested in more than three hundred 3d printers across the company,
which helps it to learn how to develop the more difficult or traditionally expensive parts for aviation, oil and gas, healthcare,
A device that allows desktop 3d printers to print in color for less than $100 Full color printing is generally a privilege limited to professional and high-end consumer 3d printers,
so the more casual user is stuck likely printing in one or two colors. But Cédric Kovacs-Johnson and Charles Haider, both chemical engineering undergraduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, say they have come up with a solution:
a sub-$100 device that upgrades desktop 3d printers to print in a full rainbow of colors.
The system is fused compatible with deposition modeling 3d printers that use a standard-size spool of filament.
FDM printers melt string-like plastic bit by bit and lay it down in layers to create an object.
allowing printers to shift between colors. hat we find really innovative in our approach is we went back to the roots of paper printing
Desktop 3d printer makers have gotten generally around the one color problem by adding more than one print head. botobjects,
a desktop printer maker that has been teasing the community for years with its full-color printing abilities,
Spectrom doesn require a specialized printer to work. The idea is that you install it on your existing printer
and youe ready to go. Your computer outputs code that tells the device when to switch between colors
and your printer operates as if it was printing with a regular filament spool. The duo didn arrive at the method immediately.
and as a result are focused on making sure it is compatible with any printer. e want to get it out to as many people as possible,
#3d printing may finally give artificial organs a blood supply Vascularized tissue constructed by printing cell-laden inks in a layered zigzag pattern.
Using a custom-built four-head 3-D printer and a isappearingink, materials scientist Jennifer Lewisand her team created a patch of tissue containing skin cells and biological structural material interwoven with blood-vessel-like structures.
The tissue is built by the 3-D printer in layers. A gelatin-based ink acts as extracellular matrixhe structural mix of proteins and other biological molecules that surrounds cells in the body.
All these inks are viscous enough to maintain their structure after being laid down by the printer.
and we think it going to be essential toward organ printing or regeneration, says Lewis, who is member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard university.
The hope is that the 3-D printing method will set the overall architecture of blood vessels within artificial tissue
#New 3d printed materials lighter than water and as strong as steel A Nanoscribe 3d printer can print models of the Empire state building in a space the width of a human hair using precision lasers.
Watching the machine build through thelens of an electron microscope is otherworldlybut the printer s potential runs beyond microscale model making.
believe such 3d printers may help craft a new generation of materials lighter than water and strong as steel.
Now, there s the Nanoscribe 3d printer. The printer s mirror-focused laser shines on and hardens a droplet of liquid plastic on a slide.
A computer moves the plate under the laser, selectively hardening it, layer by layer, to match a digital 3d model.
Microscale 3d printing is still new, but it s quickly progressing. In 2012, researchers at the Vienna University of Technology 3d printed a race car and cathedral smaller than a dust mite.
"The 6 Strangest Robots Ever Created The researchers said that this new method of building machines could serve as a form of 3d printing for robotics, turning a complex manufacturing process into something that's both more accessible and less expensive for the average user.
There really only one that comes to mind printer ink. It never fails that when one of my sons needs to print out something for a big school project the ink runs out.
Just hit'print'From working guns to bionic ears 3-D printers are creating a variety of objects
But 3-D printers aren't just laying down plastics resins and nanoparticles they're also printing with dough vegetables and even meats.
Both engineers and gourmet chefs are experimenting with creating foods from 3-D printing. The technique allows them to produce foods in unique shapes
and textures and to streamline repetitive tasks like filling ravioli. 3-D food printers don't look like traditional printers.
Just like a regular printer the machine takes its instructions from a computer. Using software a 3-D representation of the food is created
Designers of commercial 3-D printers believe that in the near future we'll be able to download such recipes and print them in our home kitchens.
Take a look at the variety of food that can be made with 3-D printers. The Foodini made these chickpea nuggets as a healthier alternative to meat options.
TNO has experimented with printing pureed vegetables back into their original shape. Cornell University's Fab@Home can print ramen noodles in a variety of artistic shapes.
#Scientists use 3-D printer to speed human embryonic stem cell research A blog by Scientific American.
Depositing human embryonic stem cells in cultures using a 3-D printer offers some advantages.
so the Heriot-Watt and Roslin Cellab scientists developed a printing system driven by pneumatic pressure and controlled by the opening and closing of a microvalve.
#Printing Color Images Without Ink A new technology creates colorful images by manipulating light rather than applying ink.
producing the colorful logo. nlike the printing process of an inkjet or laserjet printer, where mixed color pigments are used,
Artists Discover 3-D Printingthe Missouri S&t team believes the mechanical coloring on the silver/silica materials provide a much higher printing resolution than conventional color printing, according to Gizmag.
#3d-printed rocket engine gets its first fiery test Thought current 3d printing was only good for creating cute plastic versions of teapot lids key rings and other curios?
They wondered if additive layer manufacturing the engineer's name for 3d printing could make a precision part called a rocket injector in less time than the year it takes using conventional methods.
Fed liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen the injector performed perfectly in a series of tests says Aerojet's programme manager Jeff Haynes. Better still it took only four months to make the injector using 3d printing
NASA is not the only organisation trying to take 3d printing into space however: a public competition is under way to create a crowdsourced design for an open-source 3d-printable rocket engine that commercial spaceflight operators will be able to use
3-D printing. Until recently, Spielberg worked in the MIT Media Lab with Neri Oxman, the Sony Corporation Career development Assistant professor of Media Arts and Sciences, graduate students Steven Keating and John Klein,
As part of the Mediated Matter Group, he focused on converting a robotic arm to a computer controlled arm, capable of printing projects, like houses.
Outside the box Ordinarily, 3-D printing occurs inside a box limiting the size of printable objects to that of the printer housing.
It analogous to how an office printer cartridge runs back and forth, but on a much grander scale:
Spielberg jumped to the other end of the 3-D printing spectrum, moving from walls to nanoscale fluidic chips.
Once again, Spielberg role in the lab is with optimizing the 3-D printer that makes the device.
In my opinion the best nanosystems are going to be done by 3-D printing because it would bypass the problems of standard microfabrication Velsquez-Garca says.
3-D printing is going to make a big difference in the kinds of systems we can put together
Indeed Bhattacharyya built the main structural components of the robot using a 3-D printer in Asada s lab. Half of the robot the half with the flattened panel is waterproof and houses the electronics.
He used the lab s 3-D printer to build the mold in which he cast the fish s tail
The closest 3-D printers however, were at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD.
and learn to perfect 3-D printing. Ten months ago, the Golden West Foundation completed its first complete set of 3-D-printed models, ready for use in training.
Golden West is receiving orders from around the world for models made on 3-D printers set up by Golden West in Phnom penh.
BPA, another endocrine-disrupting synthetic compound widely used in plastic bottles and other resinous consumer goods, from thermal printing paper samples;
This method is analogous to half-toning used in ink-based printing and results in a broad color gamut comments Yang.
Researchers use aluminum nanostructures for photorealistic printing of plasmonic color palettes More information: Tan S. J. Zhang L. Zhu D. Goh X. M. Wang Y. M. et al.
Plasmonic color palettes for photorealistic printing with aluminum nanostructures. Nano Letters 14 4023#4029 (2014.
#High-resolution patterns of quantum dots with e-jet printing A team of 17 materials science and engineering researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana#Champaign and Erciyes University in Turkey have authored High-resolution Patterns of Quantum dots
Are formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes. Their paper was published in Nano Letters an ACS journal.
and operating conditions that allow for high-resolution printing of layers of quantum dots with precise control over thickness and submicron lateral resolution and capabilities for use as active layers of QD light-emitting diodes.
The thickness can be controlled through a combination of printing parameters including the size of the nozzle the stage speed ink composition and voltage bias.
Their work on high-resolution patterns of quantum dots is of interest as it shows that advanced techniques in e-jet printing offer powerful capabilities in patterning quantum dot materials from solution inks over large areas.
E-jet printing refers to a technique called electrohydrodynamic jet described as a micro/nanomanufacturing process that uses an electric field to induce fluid jet printing through micro/nanoscale nozzles.
The resolution of conventional ink jet-printers printers is limited. For the past seven years she said Rogers has been developing the electrohydrodynamic jet printing method.
This kind of printer works by pulling ink droplets out of the nozzle rather than pushing them allowing for smaller droplets.
An electric field at the nozzle opening causes ions to form on the meniscus of the ink droplet.
Then a tiny droplet shears off and lands on the printing surface. A computer program controls the printer by directing the movement of the substrate
and varying the voltage at the nozzle to print a given pattern. Dot line square and complex images as QD patterns are possible the researchers said with tunable dimensions and thickness.
They wrote that these arrays as well as those constructed with multiple different QD materials directly patterned/stacked by e-jet printing can be utilized as photoluminescent and electroluminescent layers.
In the IEEE story headlined High-resolution Printing of Quantum dots For Vibrant Inexpensive Displays Patel said these researchers repurposed a printing method which they devised for other applications.
Inkjet printers usually have a few hundred nozzles said Patel. The difficulty with the e-jet printing method is that the electric field at one nozzle affects the fields of neighboring nozzles.
They are trying to figure out how to isolate nozzles in order to eliminate that crosstalk. Explore further:
High-resolution Patterns of Quantum dots Formed by Electrohydrodynamic Jet Printing for Light-emitting diodes Nano Lett. Article ASAP.
and operating conditions that allow for high-resolution printing of layers of quantum dots (QDS) with precise control over thickness and submicron lateral resolution and capabilities for use as active layers of QD light-emitting diodes (LEDS).
The shapes and thicknesses of the QD patterns exhibit systematic dependence on the dimensions of the printing nozzle and the ink composition in ways that allow nearly arbitrary systematic control when exploited in a fully automated printing tool.
Sequential printing of different types of QDS in a multilayer stack or in an interdigitated geometry provides strategies for continuous tuning of the effective overall emission wavelengths of the resulting QD LEDS.
and active electronics via 3-D printing (Phys. org) As part of a project demonstrating new 3-D printing techniques Princeton researchers have embedded tiny light-emitting diodes into a standard contact lens
Kong the lead author of the Oct 31 article describing the current work in the journal Nano Letters said that the contact lens project on the other hand involved the printing of active electronics using diverse materials.
Mcalpine said that one of 3-D printing's greatest strengths is its ability to create electronics in complex forms.
and then stacks them into three dimensions 3-D printers can create vertical structures as easily as horizontal ones.
To conduct the research the team built a new type of 3-D printer that Mcalpine described as somewhere between off-the-shelf and really fancy.
and build the new printer which Mcalpine estimated cost in the neighborhood of $20000. Mcalpine said that he does not envision 3-D printing replacing traditional manufacturing in electronics any time soon;
instead they are complementary technologies with very different strengths. Traditional manufacturing which uses lithography to create electronic components is a fast and efficient way to make multiple copies with a very high reliability.
Manufacturers are using 3-D printing which is slow but easy to change and customize to create molds and patterns for rapid prototyping.
Trying to print a cellphone is probably not the way to go Mcalpine said It is customization that gives the power to 3-D printing.
In this case the researchers were able to custom 3-D print electronics on a contact lens by first scanning the lens and feeding the geometric information back into the printer.
The new technique could also be used to create nanoscale inkjet printers for printing electronics or biological cells or to create antennas or photonic components.
Scientists have developed now a fast low-cost way of making these sensors by directly printing conductive ink on paper.
In my opinion the best nanosystems are going to be done by 3-D printing because it would bypass the problems of standard microfabrication Velsquez-Garca says.
3-D printing is going to make a big difference in the kinds of systems we can put together
Researchers use aluminum nanostructures for photorealistic printing of plasmonic color palettes More information: Zheng B. Y. Wang Y. Nordlander P. and Halas N. J. 2014) Color-Selective and CMOS-Compatible Photodetection Based on Aluminum Plasmonics.
which offer the possibility of mass production by using the conventional printing technology and working with low-cost materials.
It was made by inkjet printing of an organic field-effect transistor (OFET) and subsequent functionalization of the insulator with specific antibodies.
The Biofet designed at ICN2 represents an important starting point for the design and fabrication of flexible organic biosensing devices by inkjet printing.
Formation of organic thin-film transistors through room-temperature printing More information: Mariana Medina-Sánchez Carme Martínez-Domingo Eloi Ramon Arben Merkoçi.
Everybody with a printer at home will be able to print their own artificial eye and physically stick it to a flexible mobile phone Felice said.
and can be printed by a standard inkjet printer. The graphene-based ink enables cost-effective printed electronics on plastic.
and does not require much processing after printing. We used a simple sonication and centrifugation process to unveil graphene potential in inks
uses 3-D printing technology that can be implemented now i
#New approach may be key to quantum dot solar cells with real gains in efficiency (Phys. org) Los alamos researchers have demonstrated an almost fourfold boost of the carrier multiplication yield with nanoengineered quantum dots.
#Liver-like device via 3-D printer (Phys. org) Nanoengineers at the University of California San diego have developed a 3-D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous toxins
since 3d printing allows user-specific or site-specific manufacturing of highly functional products Chen said.
or 3-D painting#(you know like printing) could also be used to make entirely new parts.
A 3-D Printer Made From E waste#The circle of electronic life: useless printer scraps become a way to print scraps of other things!
Resourceful 33-year-old inventor Kodjo Afate Gnikou of the West african country Togo has created a cheap DIY 3-D printer out of electronic waste scavenged from junk yards.
Gnikou is part of Woelab a hackerspace in the city of Lomã as well as a geographer and an occasional maintenance technician according to a crowd funding page for his project.
All together the printer ended up costing him about $100 a far cry from the hundreds or thousands of dollars you'd shell out to buy one.
He and his printer system are#part of this year's NASA International Space Apps Challenge in Paris proposing to use e waste to make 3-D printers that would print tools to colonize Mars. euronews
#Watch A 3-D Printer Make A Pizza#This summer we heard about a 3-D printer for food developed with NASA funding
Now#lo and behold the printer has shown up at SXSW Eco and we caught a short demonstration from the makers a group from#Systems and Materials Research Corporation.
The printer#served up a pie made with dough#ketchup and cream cheese(?.The printer is still in its earliest stages so the creators haven't quite perfected the process.
Instead of making a classic slice they're showing off the proper levels of pizza viscosity with similar ingredients:
the printer lays down a layer of dough from a stock of simple non-perishable ingredients then layers the sauce (ketchup) and cheese (cream cheese) on top.
send up a printer instead of boxes of food and you save space plus you give the astronauts a home-cooked meal.
Here you can see the printer laying down the cheese layer and one of the printer technicians being directed to add more pressure.
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#An Open-source Hive To Save The Bees#You may have heard by now: bees are dropping like flies continuing to die at unprecedented rates
And instead of being made of plastic (3-D printing's go-to material) it's printed from sand.
Our interface is like a 3d printer but we make steel space frames the size of city blocks.
and in April 2013 the Mayo Clinic used a 3-D printer to create a customized artificial hip.
#Better micro-actuators to transport materials in liquids Researchers have developed improved forms of tiny magnetic actuators thanks to new materials and a microscopic 3d printing technology.
This technique is similar to a microscopic 3d printer: a laser beam is moved in a computer-controlled three-dimensional manner within the epoxy resin layer
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