A new era of 3D-printing “microfactories” is helping to turn waste plastics into “highly competitive” products fit for use in ...

So she put in the effort to make 3D-printed plastic look like distressed metal ... So she designed a demonstration cube covered with mechanical characteristics, and gave us this walkthrough ...

The possibilities for material design and production of plastic components are being expanded through 3D printing technology. However, there is a shortage of recyclable polymers that meet the ...

For example, I like the Prusa V2 LACK enclosure design and its 3D-printed parts, but the next time I build one I will use corrugated plastic panels instead of acrylic. In preparation for this ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, offers a viable method for constructing large-scale plastic scintillator detectors used in particle physics. A new ...

A standard 3-D printer layers plastic to create car parts ... a kind of polymer. The scaffold is covered with skin cells and cartilage cells, which grow and fill in the ear-shaped form.

The first metal thingamajig ever 3D printed in space has landed ... calibrated the first-ever in-orbit 3D printer. That printer could only produce plastic objects, though, which Wilmore used ...

"If this [waste-made plastic] can now be fed into a 3D printer, can you actually print a whole range of products?" she said. One such product already made are "clamps" — or blocks — used in ...