3D Printing

RS Components has extended its RS range of high-quality material filaments for 3D printers. The professionally approved RS filament range has been fully tested and delivers comparable high quality to that offered by the leading brands, but without a premium price tag. Significantly the filament is not machine specific and can be used with the majority of 3D printers that use the FDM (Fused Deposition Modelling) or FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication)...

A team of researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA has developed a mobile phone-based device that can read ELISA plates in the field with the same level of accuracy as the large machines normally found in clinical laboratories. ELISA, or Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbant Assay, is a diagnostic tool that identifies antigens such as viruses and bacteria in blood samples.

A 3D printed aircraft has successfully launched off the front of a Royal Navy warship and landed safely on a Dorset beach. HMS Mersey provided the perfect platform for the University of Southampton to test out their SULSA UAV. Weighing 3kg and measuring 1.5m, the airframe was created on a 3D printer using laser sintered nylon and catapulted off HMS Mersey into the Wyke Regis Training Facility in Weymouth, before landing on Chesil Beach.

WASP has announced its LDM (Liquid Deposit Modeling) extruder for ceramic materials, which can be adapted to most 3D printers on the market. WASP’s work has always been focused on the development of systems that allow the use of functional materials like ceramics, porcelain, clay, aluminium, zirconium and advanced ceramics, in order to promote digital handicraft and self-production.

  3D printing has been one of the most talked-about technologies of the last few years. Now, Verbatim has entered the market and here, Marketing Director Rüdiger Theobald talks about the background to the decision, and what the company will bring to the market.

In what may be the first ever case of using 3D printing in the restoration of artistic and cultural heritage, WASP has been asked to collaborate in restorative intervention by the Special Superintendence for Cultural Heritage of Pompei, Ercolano and Stabia. Two of the company's Delta 4070 3D printers have been supplied to reproduce 1:1 scale versions of the casts of citizens who perished following Vesuvius' eruption in 79AD.

Physicists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) have successfully printed microelectronic components with extremely thin polymer electrodes, which have improved electrical properties. Flexible displays and touch screens, glowing films, RFID tags and solar cells represent a future market.

With robots that 3D 'draw' in steel, MX3D will print a bridge over the water in the centre of Amsterdam. The company researches and develops groundbreaking, cost-effective robotic 3D printing technology. Printing an intricate, ornate metal bridge for a special location is the ultimate test for robots and software, engineers, craftsmen and designers. The bridge by designer Joris Laarman will be ready in 2017.

Fallingwater, the one-of-a-kind house designed by America’s most famous architect Frank Lloyd Wright, has lived to see its spectacular 3D printed version. The residence was created with three different techniques: CNC milling, laser engraving and 3D printing. It took only two weeks to complete the project using the ZMorph all-in-one Personal Fabricator and the latest version of the voxel-based software, Voxelizer.

  A public API which enables creators of 3D content to integrate a 3D print button for their models, connecting their users to a network of over 16,000 3D printers, has been introduced by 3D Hubs.