Magnum (the ice cream people) have commissioned Dutch designer Iris van Herpen to design and craft a dress inspired by their own vegan ice cream. That means using sustainable and non-animal based materials. The dress has been designed, and it was all made possible by use of 3D printed bioplastics made from algae and cocoa…
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Last minute design changes are a royal pain in the butt, especially when the product release is looming on the horizon. This is why engineers have a concept known as a “design freeze”. It means once the design is signed off on, no further changes can be made, as it will upset operations downstream. General…
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Power company Westinghouse has announced that they have installed two 3D printed nuclear fuel debris filters in nuclear power plants in both Finland and Sweden. The 3D-printed nuclear fuel debris filter, dubbed the “StrongHold AM” has been installed in two Nordic Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) units. The first is installed at the Olkiluoto Nuclear Power…
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Global bathroom and kitchen brand Kohler teamed up with artist Daniel Arsham to create an immersive artwork for Milan Design Week, and scooped up the Fuorisalone Award 2022 for their efforts. The piece was named “Divided Layers” and was a follow on to the previous 3D printed collaboration between Kohler and Arsham in 2021, which…
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Space hardware needs a lot of panels. Be it for rocket bodies, satellite structures, and even space stations. In particular, space hardware needs strong, stiff and lightweight panels. This can be in the form of honeycomb structures, or in the case of this article, in isogrid panels. An isogrid panel is like a solid panel,…
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We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again. 3D printed space stuff is cool. It’s just as well because this year is turning out to be a boon for 3D printed space hardware stories, and this one is no exception. The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich has teamed up with composite engineering…
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Engineers at UCLA have unveiled a new method of printing functional miniature robots that can be manufactured with a single printing process. The little fingernail-sized robots, dubbed meta-bots are printed with their mechanical and electrical systems complete, and this is achieved by use of piezoelectric metamaterials. Typically, piezoelectric actuation only has a single degree of…
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In this edition of Sliced, the 3D Printing Industry news digest, we cover the latest business developments and partnerships in the 3D printing sector. Today’s edition includes several 3D printing partnerships and business deals, two new ultra-low porosity 3D printing powders, a new AR platform for 3D models, and an award-winning 3D printed water faucet. Read…
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In the second edition of 3D Printing Industry’s series on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and 3D printing, interviewees tell us how the technology is helping step up the process of identifying, optimizing and qualifying new additive manufacturing materials. As engineers that work in the industry will no doubt be aware, before 3D printing with any novel material,…
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French software start-up Spare Parts 3D (SP3D) has entered into a joint R&D project with the French Defense Innovation Agency (DIA) and the University for Research in Automated Production (LURPA) of the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay. Named ‘RAPID’, the project will see SP3D’s proprietary DigiPart platform deployed to create software capable of automatically reconstructing 2D drawings into printable 3D…
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