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What is 3D printer filament made of? This guide examines polymers, additives, and composites, offering practical tips for digital design and hardware engineers.
Stereolithography (SLA) is a resin-based 3D printing technology that uses a UV laser to selectively cure liquid photopolymer resin layer by layer.
Advancing New Horizons in Additive Manufacturing (AM)
Using a fleet of printers including an UltiMaker S3 and a MakerBot Method X, the team at Ocean Alliance was able to design, prototype, and build a sophisticated drone-based tagging system from the ground up.
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Advancing New Horizons in Additive Manufacturing (AM)
Discover how to print with high-performance filaments like PEEK, PEKK, and ULTEM. Learn about their properties, hardware needs, challenges, and best practices for industrial-grade 3D printing.
Explore how 3D-Fuel's Pro PCTG filament advances additive manufacturing, offering higher impact strength, improved environmental resistance, and reliable printability for functional and industrial 3D printing applications.
3devo's next-generation desktop extruder combines industrial precision with lab-scale simplicity enabling more controlled, higher-performance and data-driven 3D printing material workflows.
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MIT's SustainaPrint gives 3D printing the "Hannah Montana treatment" by combining eco-friendly plastics with tough materials only where needed, delivering the best of both worlds with strong AND sustainable prints
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This guide explores how to leverage infill to balance structural integrity with efficiency, ensuring your 3D prints meet specific performance needs while minimizing waste and production time.
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A decimal counter is a digital circuit that cycles through zero to nine using logic components. It is essential in clocks and timers. Making a decimal counter using seven-segment displays offers great opportunities for students to learn sequential logic, clock signals, and circuit integration.
Explore how 3D-Fuel's Pro PCTG filament advances additive manufacturing, offering higher impact strength, improved environmental resistance, and reliable printability for functional and industrial 3D printing applications.
In this article, I'll share key tips to help you design more reliable, high-performance parts for Multi Jet Fusion 3D printing.
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New research enables computer designs to incorporate the limitations of 3D printers, to better control materials' performance in aerospace, medical, and other applications.
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Discover the FDM printer meaning in practical terms, exploring how fused deposition modeling works and why it remains one of the most widely used technologies today.
Developed by Stanford researchers, NeuroString is a hair-thin multichannel biosensor and stimulator with promising potential applications in drug delivery, nerve stimulation, smart fabrics, and more.
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Everything you need to know about choosing the right solder paste when printing electronics, from composition and function to particle size and application.
The method enhances 3D bioprinting capabilities, accelerating process optimization for real-world applications in tissue engineering.
From robotic hands and arms to soft heart pumps, biomaterials, 3D-printed muscles and more, rapid advancements in robotics and biotechnology are giving rise to new techniques for repairing the human body.
Let's deep-dive into why quality components matter when choosing a printer, and which components to look out for.
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How long does a 3D printer take to print a typical plastic part? This article looks at the theory and practice behind 3D print time.
MIT CSAIL researchers developed SustainaPrint, a system that reinforces only the weakest zones of eco-friendly 3D prints, achieving strong results with less plastic.
