As biologists are busy working on cloning living organisms, engineers are working on a mechanical counterpart – creating non-living things that can replicate themselves.
Recently, more than 100 researchers from around the world have been working on a project called RepRap (Replicating Rapid-prototyper), which started in 2004. At the Cheltenham Science Festival in the UK, the [...]
North Technical High School’s Precision Machining Program recently received a modern Dimension 1200es 3D printer System. In today’s field of engineering, architecture, and design, prototyping a three dimensional drawing is an essential step in the design process.
A 3D printer combines or fuses successive layers of material in a form of “additive manufacturing” [...]
With the help of their latest invention in science – a 3D printer, researchers managed to create the exact copy of a man’s thumb bones. The device can now be used to help surgeons restore damaged bones by creating their precise copies, which are made from the patient’s cells.
When you are using a 3D printer to make an actual model of something, you may be curious about how your design goes from something on a computer screen to an object that you can pick up and hold. Understanding the steps that a 3D printer takes is extremely crucial if you want to grasp [...]
This story is, literally, stone age meets digital age: University of Washington researchers are combining the ancient art of ceramics and the new technology of 3-D printing. Along the way, they are making 3-D printing dramatically cheaper.
About five years ago, Mark Ganter, a UW mechanical engineering professor and longtime practitioner of 3-D printing, [...]