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A robotic, dinosaur ghost, that shoots fire out of her 3D printed jaw. That’s Ghost Raptor for the 2022 season of BattleBots but it could be pretty much any maker’s dream bot. Team Raptor (Chuck Pitzer, Eric Diehr, Sabri Sansoy) teamed up with Designer Anouk Wipprecht and Xo Wang for…
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The upcoming Apple TV series Severance, which deals with a high-tech way to achieve a work-life balance, features a room with hundreds of Stratasys F370 3D printers. While it is not the first cameo of a 3D printer in a popular TV series, it is one of the first times…
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We’ve seen guitars 3D printed in plastics and then 3D printed in metal (many of these were done by Olaf Diegel, Professor of Additive Manufacturing at the University of Auckland). But we had yet to see a working guitar 3D printed in real wood. For that, we needed Forust technology.…
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Stratasys in collaboration with the design team at Paisley Park in Chanhassen has created a custom set of 3D printed display pieces to showcase Prince’s expansive shoe collection in a new Paisley Park exhibit, ‘The Beautiful Collection: Prince’s Custom Shoes. Paisley Park designers and museum curators worked with Stratasys to…
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Presented globally last week, Syng‘s Cell Alpha trisonic speaker system is a revolution in home audio. It features parts from HP 3D printing that enable to be the first all-encompassing audio product that renders sound for the wide spectrum of the content we consume today – from music to TV…
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3DRap is a startup based in a small town on the hills of Irpinia, in Southern Italy, in the medieval town of Capocastello. As the name implies the company was founded around the idea of RepRap 3D printing: they created an open-source system, leveraged the Arduino platform for a number…
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Last night, as I watched the latest episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK—the British spinoff of the long-running American reality TV competition that seeks to crown the next drag superstar—I was surprised and excited to hear the words 3D printing pop up. This week, the contestants were asked to showcase…
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It is hard to imagine that brass instruments—so named because of the metal they are made from—could be produced using any other material. However, a recent, and rather melodious, project led by LOOP 3D and trombone musician Peter Körner has demonstrated that other materials and production methods could be viable…
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I have to admit that I had to read this story twice to grasp (and believe) it. It involves Mike Tyson, the former professional boxer, cannabis and 3D printing: but not in the way you might expect. Tyson-owned The Ranch Companies have obtained a global licence for a special cannabis…
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Technology has progressed at amazing rates. Think about it: just four decades ago, Sony released the first walkman. Today, you’d be hard pressed to find one in a store and most youngsters wouldn’t even recognize a cassette. For those for whom nostalgia bites hard, a creative design agency has created…
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