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During the latest webinar organized by 3dpbm for the AM Focus on eyewear 3D printing, the discussion centered on the fact that, after a few years of envisioning a future made of directly 3D printed products, AM technologies are now ready to cater to the demands of the eyewear industry for…
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If you’re at Formnext this week, then you may have already caught a glimpse of the world’s first 3D printed chassis. The automobile chassis, developed by Divergent3D, is on display at the Frankfurt event at the SLM Solutions booth. SLM Solutions has been a close partner of Divergent3D in the…
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Though it is still September, the Bavarian tradition of Oktoberfest kicked off this weekend, bringing together men and women from all over the world to drink beer and don lederhosen and dirndls. The event also saw participation from GE Additive’s Customer Experience Center in Munich, which put together a fun…
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Who has never dreamed of having a life-size 3D printed Jabba the Hut in their living room? When affordable 3D printers became a reality, they made it possible for these highly personalized “dreams” to come true. In what is certainly an effective promotional campaign, the YouTube channel Mighty Jabba’s Collection…
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There was a time when many people who were starting to familiarize with 3D printing did not see any real value in 3D models and thus limited their exploration to free models from Thingiverse and other free 3D model databases. Not much has changed but, as 3D printing becomes more…
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Sure, one of the coolest things about the Nintendo Labo series of games is that the “accessories” are made from recyclable cardboard so they are environmentally friendly and won’t pollute for centuries to come (unlike those piles of E.T. buried in the New Mexico desert by Atari). However, there is…
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Low-cost bioprinter manufacturer Allevi is introducing Carbohydrate Glass materials from startup Volumetric for the company’s new 3D Organ-on-a-chip Kit. Carbohydrate Glass is an incredible sacrificial material that has excellent printability and makes high-resolution microchannels. Published in Nature Materials, Carbohydrate Glass is considered a game-changer for some bioprinting applications. Organ-on-a-chip technology, developed by the…
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Scientists studying wildlife animal behaviors are starting to use 3D printing to produce more accurate animal replicas, leading to some interesting discoveries. Daniel Mennill and Stéphanie Doucet, both of whom are behavioral ecologists at the University of Windsor in Canada, used a 3D printed toad (RobotToad) made by their graduate…
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At the Digital Metal production site in Höganäs, future is being printed as we speak. With state-of-the-art 3D metal printing machines, excellent sintering capacity, an advanced quality control department and a new Digital Metal Material Development Center featuring the latest production equipment, Digital Metal is preparing to spread its unique,…
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A paper that was just submitted to the Cornell University Library describes how to obtain accurate 3D body models and texture of arbitrary people from a single, monocular video in which a person is moving. The paper was authored by Thiemo Alldieck, Marcus Magnor, Weipeng Xu, Christian Theobalt and Gerard Pons-Moll; it…
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