Local Motors to use Autodesk Spark 3D printing platform
Autodesk and Local Motors collaborate on first industrial application of Spark, the open 3D printing platform to solve challenges in…
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3D printing issues and challenges: Material costs
In the first of his comment pieces on 3D printing issues and challenges, Jeremy Pullin delves into the murky waters…
Making stuff: Lost-wax casting
The GemVision Revo540CX can produce super high detail wax parts for lost-wax casting in the jewellery industry In a week…
The Internet of Things: robots are taking over the automated smart factory
Intelligent Robots, should we be scared? In the 1980s car manufacturers in Detroit were prophesising a future of “lights-out” manufacturing…
3D printing optics process poised to take on injection moulding
The new ‘LUX-Opticlear’ material means that the process might ready to compete with injection moulding A revolutionary method and new…
3D Printing in glass? HP keeps us guessing what technology it’s working on
HP Labs has already been playing around with glass printing, comparing particle sizes and firing of the glass prints We’ve…
Space: Manufacturing for up in the stars gets lighter with every design
Sentinel-5 Precursor is scheduled for launch in 2016 to monitor the atmosphere from polar orbit. The satellite will carry the…
Reverse Engineering: A broken heart transforms into a gold pendant
A piece of film noir to get you interested in a piece of modern jewellery design The context of this…
Education: How to teach the teachers?
Black Country Atelier teaches children about design through 3D CAD and 3D printing, but is seeing a rise in school…
Metals 3D printing: Power of laser melting allows new materials control on a micro level
Using an Arcam electron beam melting system researchers say they can control the variations in crystallographic orientation in a nickel-based…
