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As the patents for fused-filament 3D printers began to expire back in 2013, hackers and makers across the globe started making 3D objects in their garages, workshops and hackerspaces. Entire indust… ...
4D printing is real, happening right now, and it just might have the potential to change the world. 4D Printing Is All About Self-Assembly . So what's the 4th-dimension we're talking about here?
That's why a group of scientists led by the European Space Agency are exploring ways to 3D print anything from screws to coins using artificial lunar regolith — a simulation, essentially, of ...
Coin flips. Why do we turn to objects to make decisions for us? Rhode Island’s quirkiest collector knows how to help lighten the load of our overwhelming daily decisions, courtesy of a Japanese ...
Many of the selected 100 objects have been coins, which helped develop trade and ultimately, accumulated wealth and banks, reflecting peoples' confidence in the value of the coins.
Wherein most 3D printers are designed to create objects that have to remain rigid in structure and shape, 4D printing, as it is called, allows the 3D printed objects to change their shape and ...
2. Printing machine. The machine has to accurately replicate the layers described in the digital file. That means that it needs enough free and clean space to construct the object, which is why 3D ...
LEUVEN, BELGIUM — 3D printing has already changed the game for manufacturing specialized products such as medical devices but the real revolution will come when designers start to rethink the ...
By: Rich DeMuro Jan. 23, 2013 Printers have come long way since the days of dot matrix, hitting milestones along the way like color and laser printing. Now printers are going 3D, printing real obj… ...
So first there was the online creation of pretty simple items like business cards and T-shirts - businesses which cut out the old middle-man way of doings ...