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John Newman · February 22, 2013 · …been prophesizing the future. Additive manufacturing (AM) has been a natural fit for prosthetic development and manufacturing, and now Cornell University and the Weill Cornell Medical College have taken prosthetics research to a whole new level with a bioprinted ear.While every prosthesis is designed to be functional (and…
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John Newman · February 21, 2013 · The Internet is the definition of a transformative technology. Not only has it redefined the dissemination of information, it has changed virtually every business on the planet. One of those changes includes the manner in which small businesses fund new projects. The year 2009 might well be remembered…
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John Newman · February 20, 2013 · People like additive manufacturing (AM) partially because of its flexibility. You can produce objects using AM which would otherwise be either impossible or incredibly costly to manufacture. That presumes that you (or someone that works for you) is capable of using CAD to design that product in the…
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John Newman · February 18, 2013 · …decade or so, most additive manufacturing (AM) growth and development has taken place in the US or Europe, with Israel’s Objet being an obvious exception. The rest of the world was bound to start catching up eventually. South Africa has its own aerospace operation in the works and…
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Jamie Gooch · February 15, 2013 · …on the state of additive manufacturing (AM), I come across many interesting news items. I’ll gather them up every so often and present them in a Rapid Ready Roundup (like this one). You can find the last Roundup here.We’ll begin today’s Roundup with some presidential enthusiasm. With NAMII…
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John Newman · February 14, 2013 · …build a house using additive manufacturing (AM), and mainly you’d be right. Lately, though, the idea has been cropping up more and more often. The European Space Agency is even looking into using AM to build housing on the moon.Monolite UK has been chugging along with the intent…
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John Newman · February 13, 2013 · …be the case in additive manufacturing (AM). One dominant trend in new AM systems is that of size. We’ve covered a number of the emerging giants of 3D printing, and the build envelopes just continue to increase.Sciaky’s Direct Manufacturing (DM) process has moved from being able to print…
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John Newman · February 12, 2013 · …new era of mass manufacturing. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of business or history knows this innovation allowed Ford to create products that were less expensive to manufacture and easier to maintain. To use a frequently overused phrase, the assembly line was a game changer.Now it appears…
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John Newman · February 11, 2013 · The Internet of Things (IoT) is an idea that’s been kicking around for about a decade now. If you aren’t familiar with the term, the IoT assumes that, eventually, nearly every item you own, from clothing to the refrigerator, will have some sort of wireless sensor in it…
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John Newman · February 8, 2013 · …concern the future of additive manufacturing (AM), but, just as AM is in its infancy, so are the legal proceedings surrounding the new technology.3D design warehouse sites are becoming more common. While some of them, like Thingiverse, operate under a Creative Commons license, more of them offer .stl…
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John Newman · February 7, 2013 · …on the state of additive manufacturing (AM), I come across many interesting news items. I’ll gather them up every so often and present them in a Rapid Ready Roundup (like this one). You can find the last Roundup here.Let’s start this Roundup with matters of national security. The…
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John Newman · February 6, 2013 · The nature of manufacturing is undergoing a fundamental shift. Thanks to additive manufacturing (AM), products or prototypes that used to take days or weeks to construct can now be completed in hours. Companies are beginning to wake up to the potential of AM, and are looking for ways…
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John Newman · February 5, 2013 · …Just like with other additive manufacturing (AM) processes, however, bioprinting has a plethora of uses. All those smart people in lab coats keep coming up with new ideas.A team of researchers in Scotland have made a breakthrough in bioprinting by discovering a method of printing human embryonic stem…
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John Newman · February 4, 2013 · …Now, forensics, combined with additive manufacturing (AM), can also show us what these people looked like.Researchers at the Redpath Museum in Montreal, Canada, led by professional forensic artist Victoria Lywood, used CT scans to produce digital images of the features of three ancient Egyptian mummies. Information from the…
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John Newman · February 1, 2013 · …It seems as though additive manufacturing (AM) may have the answers.The European Space Agency (ESA) is investigating the possibility of using AM to construct a lunar base, using materials already in place. You may remember Rapid Ready reporting on an experiment that used crushed lunar rocks and a…
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Mark Clarkson · February 1, 2013 · …to produce a large-scale additive manufacturing (AM) system at the behest of Daimler. The X line 1000R is being touted as one of the largest AM systems ever built. It has a build envelope of 23.6x15.7x19.7 in., and the build bed rotates to help reduce build times. The…
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John Newman · January 31, 2013 · …on the state of additive manufacturing (AM), I come across many interesting news items. I’ll gather them up every so often and present them in a Rapid Ready Roundup (like this one). You can find the last Roundup here.Let’s start today’s Roundup with some RAPID talk. SME has…
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John Newman · January 30, 2013 · …is offering eight new additive manufacturing (AM) systems to the line. The majority of the new systems offer specific build areas and resolutions, effectively breaking down the high-end 3500 systems for exact needs.The ProJet 3500 line falls under what we call professional 3D printers, meaning they are tools…
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John Newman · January 29, 2013 · From the first time a warrior strapped on some leather hide, body armor has continually evolved. Each time a new type of armor was invented, weapons technology eventually surpassed the protection offered. This resulted in a new round of improvements in armor, followed by bigger and better weapons…
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John Newman · January 28, 2013 · Along with the flying cars we don’t have in every driveway, the future past the year 2000 was supposed to feature robots in the home, attending to our every desire. About the closest we’ve come to that so far is probably the Roomba. If you’re getting tired of…
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