Australian Police Confiscate 3D Printed Guns During Raid

The Australian authorities raided a Sunshine Coast home and confiscated an entire cache of weapons, drugs and false IDs. While a raid seems peculiar enough, the twist to this tale was that these particular weapons were made with 3D printing. The stash included functional handguns and knuckle dusters . As the Australian police confiscate 3D printed […]

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How Relativity Space 3D Prints Rockets Cheaper Than Competitors

With the field of spaceflight and aerospace manufacturing buzzing with new entrants, it’s sometimes hard to stand out. These are start-ups like no others, building possibly the hardest machinery to make and testing them. So, maybe companies can take a page from Relativity Space, which 3D prints rockets cheaper than competitors. The Mark Cuban-backed company […]

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Researchers Develop 4D Printed Load-Bearing Polymer Structures

Researchers at ETH Zurich have just developed a new memory-material based design that evolves with environmental stimuli. These 4D printer structures contain programmable actuators that deploy autonomously and change shape using temperature alterations as the catalyst. They are also load-bearing before and after actuation, and thus can serve as great construction materials. Professor Kristina Shea and […]

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Prodways Acquires Solidscape From Stratasys

French manufacturer Prodways has recently announced it’s purchase of Solidscape 3D Systems. As Prodways acquires Solidscape, it manages to expand it’s portfolio of tech and services to include wax 3D printing. At the same time, it is also evidence that Stratasys is shedding a lot of its own subsidiaries. The deal has massive implications for both […]

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Russian Company Building World’s Largest Construction Printer

With the rise of construction printing in the past few years, companies have been getting more and more inventive with their designs. To keep up with the market, firms need new designs to suit the building of massive structures. That being the case, construction printers have to be massive. So, it’s not really all that […]

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25 Year Old Indian Engineer Creates Own Low-Cost 3D Printer

We all do crazy things for a better deal on good equipment. While that usually refers to bargain bin hunting and discount vouchers, a 25 year old Indian engineer has taken it up a notch. Research engineer Jaspreet Singh made his very own 3D printer, building complex parts in the CT University workshop. The resulting printer […]

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