Friday, July 31, 2020

Hands On With The Prusa MINI 3D Printer, Part 3

Hands On With The Prusa MINI 3D Printer, Part 3

We had a chance to evaluate the new Prusa MINI 3D printer. Here we examine print quality and one error encountered.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

Hands On With The Prusa MINI 3D Printer, Part 2

Hands On With The Prusa MINI 3D Printer, Part 2

We had a chance to evaluate the new Prusa MINI 3D printer. Here we configure the machine and begin operations.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

Hands On With The Prusa MINI 3D Printer, Part 1

Hands On With The Prusa MINI 3D Printer, Part 1

We had a chance to evaluate the new Prusa MINI 3D printer. Here we unbox and assemble the device.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

Growing A 3D Printed Garden

Growing A 3D Printed Garden

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi delve into the charming world of gardening – with a 3D printing twist.

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by Charles Goulding via Fabbaloo

BMW Group Opens New Additive Manufacturing Campus

BMW Group Opens New Additive Manufacturing Campus

The BMW Group’s new Additive Manufacturing Campus in Munich, Germany, is finally open.

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by ENGINEERING.com via Fabbaloo

Thursday, July 30, 2020

Microsoft Officially Joins Blender Foundation

Microsoft Officially Joins Blender Foundation

Microsoft has officially joined the Blender Foundation Development Fund, a group that supports the open source 3D modeling tool Blender.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

3D Printing And Supply Chain Preparedness

3D Printing And Supply Chain Preparedness

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s that supply chains can be disrupted suddenly and without any indication of how long the interruption will last.

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by Sarah Goehrke via Fabbaloo

Thoughts On Using The Prusa MINI In 3D Printer Farms

Thoughts On Using The Prusa MINI In 3D Printer Farms

After working with the Prusa MINI 3D printer, I have some thoughts on the use of this device in a potential 3D printer farm setup.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

Fore! 3D Printing in Golf

Fore! 3D Printing in Golf

Charles R. Goulding and Peter Favata explore the use of 3D printing in the world of golf.

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by Charles Goulding via Fabbaloo

The New Intel RealSense Depth Camera Widens Its View

The New Intel RealSense Depth Camera Widens its View

The new Intel RealSense Depth Camera D455 is now available.

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by SolidSmack.com via Fabbaloo

Wednesday, July 29, 2020

Some Of The World’s Largest And Smallest 3D Prints

Some Of The World’s Largest And Smallest 3D Prints

3D printing is in the record books -- specifically the Guinness Book of World Records -- for some unusual creations.

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by Sarah Goehrke via Fabbaloo

Let’s Talk About Post-Processing

Let’s Talk About Post-Processing

They call post-processing the “dirty little secret” of 3D printing, but let’s talk about it in the 2020 post-processing survey.

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by Sarah Goehrke via Fabbaloo

The Calibry Mini 3D Scanner Fills The Gap

The Calibry Mini 3D Scanner Fills The Gap

Thor3D has announced the Calibry Mini handheld 3D scanner, which can easily capture small objects in fine detail.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

3D Printing Rides The Ford Bronco Again

3D Printing Rides The Ford Bronco Again

Charles R. Goulding and Ryan Donley delight in the 3D printing opportunity emerging from Ford's reintroduction of the Bronco.

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by Charles Goulding via Fabbaloo

Ellen Lee: “Yes, I Broke A Few Machines”

Ellen Lee: “Yes, I Broke A Few Machines”

Ellen Lee is Technical Leader of Additive Manufacturing for Research & Advanced Engineering at Ford Motor Company, responsible for leading the development and implementation of advanced polymer additive manufacturing (AM) materials and technologies for functional use in the automotive sector.

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by Nora Toure via Fabbaloo

Tuesday, July 28, 2020

Future Welding With 3D Printed Reactive Material Architectures

Future Welding With 3D Printed Reactive Material Architectures

A group of researchers at Vanderbilt University have developed an approach for 3D printing thermite to perform part joining.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

E3D’s ASMBL System Could Make Near-Perfect 3D Prints

E3D-Online’s ASMBL System Could Make Near-Perfect 3D Prints

E3D-Online announced a new tool for their Toolchanger 3D printer that performs coordinated subtractive operations.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

When Complex Internal Structures Are Cricket Tubes

When Complex Internal Structures Are Cricket Tubes

3D printing is well known for creating complex designs with intricate internal structures; sometimes those structures serve as tubes for crickets.

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by Sarah Goehrke via Fabbaloo

Medtronic Acquires Medicrea: Implications On 3D Printing Medical Technology

Medtronic Acquires Medicrea: Implications On 3D Printing Medical Technology

Charles R. Goulding and Ryan Donley explore a recent acquisition’s potential impact on medical 3D printing.

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by Charles Goulding via Fabbaloo

Book of the Week: A Practical Guide to Design for Additive Manufacturing

Book of the Week: A Practical Guide to Design for Additive Manufacturing

This week’s selection is “A Practical Guide to Design for Additive Manufacturing” by Olaf Diegel , Axel Nordin and Damien Motte.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

Monday, July 27, 2020

Who’s Who In Construction 3D Printing In 2020?

Who’s Who In Construction 3D Printing in 2020?

Construction 3D printing is a relatively new discipline, and we made a list of the current players.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

When 3D Printing Makes Sense For Serial Production

When 3D Printing Makes Sense For Serial Production

Many companies requiring thousands of components use 3D printing to perfect their design before moving to injection molding for production, but sometimes it makes sense to stick with additive manufacturing.

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by Sarah Goehrke via Fabbaloo

3D Printed Micro-Endoscope Developed

3D Printed Micro-Endoscope Developed

Researchers have developed a way to fabricate microscopic endoscopes using 3D printing technology.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo

The Analog Devices And Maxim Integrated Merger And 3D Printing

The Analog Devices And Maxim Integrated Merger And 3D Printing

Charles R. Goulding and Adam Friedman consider potential 3D printing implications from the Analog Devices / Maxim Integrated merger.

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by Charles Goulding via Fabbaloo

Design of the Week: FLOLA Lamp

Design of the Week: FLOLA Lamp

This week’s selection is the astonishingly beautiful FLOLA lamp by 3LOBIT.

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by Kerry Stevenson via Fabbaloo