3D Printing

Anycubic asserts that its latest Photon Mono-series 3D printer will retain every detail of its input thanks to a new, high-res monochrome LCD screen. The M5 also supports a mobile app for "one-touch" model selection and progress-tracing. It is available from now with up to US$50 off its pre-order price for a limited time.

Anycubic touts its latest release as an ideal gateway into the "world of 3D resin printing". The Photon Mono 2 has debuted as a "significant" upgrade over its predecessor in terms of the potential detail and size of its final products. Nevertheless, it is rated for a compact footprint and "incredibly user-friendly" experience.

The well-known 3D printer brand Creality has pursued a direct sales model, or one of selling through its own web-store, for about half a year now. Now, it has announced it has raked in over US$12 million since going live in 2022. The company credits the move with a vast growth in success and recognition in the consumer (or prosumer) home extruding market.

Porsche Consulting, with its vast experience in designing sustainable automotive facilities, will guide the process of building Gigafactories for 3D-printed solid-state battery cells. Sakuu's innovative Swift Print technology allows precision layering of the solid electrolyte between the anode and cathode.

If you view the ExpertBook B6 Flip as a convertible, you probably have the heaviest device in its class. Even as a workstation, the device is large and incredibly powerful. This is primarily due to the extreme cooling that takes up a lot of space in the large case.

OnePlus' latest flagship-grade Android smartphone, the 10T, has the fastest charging technology known to its series thus far. However, should a new leak based on a new 3C certification in China prove accurate, its immediate successor the 11 might be a slight let-down in this area. Meanwhile, the brand has made a date to share something with its fans later in December 2022, although these two things are not necessarily linked.

It seems unfair that CAD packages are all prohibitively expensive. After all, how are you to know if it's worth spending money on learning the skill without knowing whether or not you're any good at it? Fortunately, there are are a few free CAD packages you can try your hand at before you spend.

Milling, engraving and 3D printing - the Artisan 3-in-1 is designed to do it all. Snapmaker has built on its Kickstarter success of 2019 with this new machine touted to support multiple types of fabrication hobby in one package. The start-up claims that the machine can deliver its CNC mode at up to 200W, a "high-power" 10W module and an up-to-300°C dual extrusion system.

How do you repair the case for your AirPods? You don't, according to Apple customer service representatives allegedly recorded in a new YouTube video posted by Ken Pillonel, an engineer who modified an iPhone X to support USB type-C charging. Now, the same vlogger has worked out how to do the same for a pair of AirPods.

Have you ever wanted to 3D print with chocolate rather than plastics? You might now be able to, thanks to the new Wiiboox LuckyBot. It is a "food extruder", or a device touted to adapt a variety of FDM printers to compatibility with edible materials. Its maker asserts that a user can make all kinds of shapes and figures with high accuracy and definition.

DIY people are the best of us—they persevere and succeed, regardless of how many profanities it takes to earn their success and how many tiring days or even weeks it takes to build their next wonderfully creative project. As an ode to the DIY folk, let's have a look at some of the best DIY projects that deserve to be on store shelves.

Bigtreetech has revealed the Raspberry Pad 5, a capacitive touch screen display. The gadget supports multi-point touch and has a resolution of 800 x 480 px. Bigtreetech suggests a variety of uses for the device, including a smart speaker, a microcomputer and a 3D printer. The display has multiple interfaces, including an HDMI port that supports 2K resolution.

An Intel spokesperson has responded to reports that the new Alder Lake processors' LGA1700 socket bracket may cause heat spreader warping and operating temperature rise. They warned that the slight 'deflection' isn't bringing the CPU out of specs and any aftermarket solution may void the processor's warranty.

AnkerMake, a new Anker brand, has released its first 3D printer. The AnkerMake M5 can print at speeds up to 2,500 mm/s². The printer comes with an app that you can use to get notifications about your print jobs and view automatically captured timelapse videos.

The newly minted VA Ventures project of the Department of Veterans Affairs is already leveraging the vast resources of the agency to leverage novel technologies like 3D-bioprinting. They expect to have living BioBone grafts in VA clinics in the next three to five years, helping Veterans who need reconstructive surgery.

Anycubic has unveiled new Kobra and Kobra Max 3D printers, alongside new Photon M3, M3 Max and M3 Plus models. The two new lines include printers with high-res LCD displays, generous build volumes and an automatic resin back-up in some cases. They start at ~US$300 through various channels from March 28, 2022.

University of British Columbia researchers have managed to bioprint working tubular structures from human testicular stem cells in order to fight a common causes male infertility. The 3D-printed testicular tubes will now be "coached" into sperm production the way they behave in healthy human testicles and potentially used for developing novel in-vitro fertilization treatments.

In yet another demonstration of bioprinting's abilities, scientists managed to retrofit a robotic arm with six degrees of movement freedom to 3D-print cardiac tissue. The faux heart managed to beat for at least six months, demonstrating the viability of the technology.

University of Utrecht researchers have managed to hone their 3D-bioprinting method enough to achieve the creation of functional liver-mimicking units that can detoxify impurities like the human organ. By using volumetric bioprinting via light sources, the scientists kept the liver organoids alive and intend to use the method for studying new drugs or regenerative medicine of damaged livers.

2022 Maverick pickup owners will be delighted to hear that the CAD files needed to 3D-print their own accessories for the Ford Integrated Tether System have been open-sourced by the carmaker. The system of slots in the Ford Maverick truck that lets them add cup holders, storage bins, and many more, has now been opened to the creativity of anyone with 3D-printing skills.

Valve is urging 'tinkerers, modders, accessory manufacturers, or folks who just want to 3D print a Steam Deck to see how it feels' to have a go at the portable console's CAD files it uploaded on GitHub. With the surface topography files, fans will be able to 3D-print their own custom Steam Deck shells to compensate for the single black color version at launch.

Parents of children with spine deformities will be delighted to hear about yet another medical application of the 3D-printing technology, this time potentially used for successful treatment of scoliosis. University of Glasgow researchers have developed a 3D-printed back brace that can sense and adapt to continuously right your posture while wearing it.

There is now a 3D-printed PlayStation controller mod that aids one-handed usage for all those gamers with accessibility disadvantages or just those who'd like to be able to dig in a KFC bucket during gameplay. The mod can be 3D-printed either for lefties or for righties, and the shoulder buttons are all grouped on the opposite side for single-finger access.

IKEA's new "Taste the Future" recruitment campaign shoots two birds with one stone by offering job candidates a plate of 3D-printed IKEA vegan meatballs to break the ice. IKEA is going plant-based for at least half of its main meals by 2025 and is also searching for tech and innovation talent to fill a number of open positions.

According to the Houston Police Department, one Ronald Caballero used potentially 3D-printed gun parts to modify two weapons for rapid fire which were then recovered when he shot three police officers during a traffic stop. ATF officials are increasingly worried about the proliferation of the so-called 'Glock switches' used to upgrade semi-automatic weapons.

Researchers from Fraunhofer IAPT, one of the leading additive manufacturing process science institutions, have managed to make 3D-printing of car parts in large quantities a viable alternative to traditional methods. A step-by-step optimization process resulted in a car door hinge that is lighter and cheaper than its milled counterpart.

OLED display manufacturing requires big machines and clean factories, making flexible OLED panels in modern phones and laptops the most expensive component there. Researchers at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities have managed to create the first bendy OLED screen done entirely by 3D-printing all of its active diodes, interconnects, and encapsulation, paving the way for cheaper OLEDs in the future.

Habitat for Humanity has delivered the first keys for a 3D-printed home in its Habitat Homebuyer Program to a Williamsburg, Virginia family. The single mother in need has participated in Habitat's projects for the hundreds of "sweat equity" hours required to apply, and can now move in her new home, 3D-printed by Alquist with special temperature-isolating concrete.

A partnership between the Technion Institute of Technology and the Sheba Medical Center has successfully biofabricated a human auricle with a 3D-printed scaffold and cartilage grown from the patient's own cells. So far, children with microtia have had to undergo painful costal cartilage grafts and wait until age 10 to have their undeveloped ears surgically reconstructed. The 3D-printed prosthetic ear method can be used from age six and is much less invasive.

In the last few days, a wild claim by the creator of the 3D-printed assisted suicide Sarco Pod made the news rounds, informing that their mobile euthanasia contraption was approved for use in Switzerland. It turns out that none of the organizations that provide assisted suicide in the country - like EXIT or Dignitas - knew of such a legal review or intends to employ the Sarco Pod in their euthanasia services. The mobile Sarco Pod's assisted suicide promise is one of idyllic settings and personal choices, while its oxygen deprivation method differs from the typical euthanasia practice in Switzerland.

Food science researchers have managed to whip up a concoction of soy protein isolate, emulsifiers, starches, and other plant-based ingredients to achieve "superior 3D printing performance" of plant-based meat dough. Their secret ingredient seems to have been the use of cocoa butter that finally made the patties flow, while the efforts to 3D-print substitute meat with pea protein have been futile. The researchers added shiitake powder to achieve the taste and say the meat replacement has as much protein as chicken.

Using biomimicry to replicate how birds land on tree branches and balance there, Stanford researchers have managed to create SNAG, the Stereotyped Nature-Inspired Aerial Grasper, which can fly like a quadcopter but land like a peregrine falcon. SNAG is not your average drone but a robotic bird that can grasp branches of various forms and textures with its 3D-printed legs, motors for muscles, and fishing line for tendons. The end goal is to conserve battery while filming or surveying an area by perching instead of hovering all the time.

A living 'microbial ink' has been developed by a research team at Harvard University and Harvard Medical school, which can be 3D printed. One of the living materials generated from the ink has been designed to release an anti-cancer drug on demand.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD, one of the leading research centers in visual computing computer science based on images and 3D models, has 3D-printed a prosthetic eye. Using its proprietary Cuttlefish: Eye software and 3D-printing technology, the scientists have managed to create models in a fraction of the time typically needed for fitting one. Fraunhofer's new technology will undergo clinical trials in the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, where 40 patients will get 3D-printed prosthetic eyes.

Nexa3D revealed the XiP, which is the company's first attempt to manufacture a desktop 3D printer. The printer was developed using Nexa3D's proprietary and latest leading-edge technologies to create a future-proof and inventive 3D printer. The company asserts that the XiP is blazing fast, easy to maintain and will become available during Q2 2022.

The US$150,000 research project could answer significant questions about just how durable current generation 3D-printed parts can be in extreme situations.

Optomec has unveiled a new 3D printed Interconnect solution that substantially amplifies 5G signals. The company asserted that this solution increases the performance of mm-wave integrated circuits (ICs). This IC solution is facilitated by Optomec's newly designed Aerosol Jet HD2 printer, which has an ultra-high printing resolution.

The first company to obtain a permit for, then build a 3D-printed house in the US, now plans the world's largest 3D-printed neighborhood in Austin, TX.

A team of students from Swiss universities has developed a feline robot. The Dyana project has combined animatronics and 3D printing to create a cat-like character that moves in a feline way.