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Giving design engineers access to a comprehensive manufacturing network builds resilience and improves innovation.
3D printing offers a new and accessible way to put manufacturing back in the heart of young people in Belfast, who aspire to design and reimagine the future.
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When it comes to desktop 3D printing, buyers have two main options: resin printers that use photopolymerization technology, or filament printers that extrude molten thermoplastic. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.
What technologies have had the biggest positive impact on education at every level and across every subject? Projectors, printers, laptops, and personal computers? We believe that in a decade's time, anyone asking that question will not hesitate to add 3D printers to the list.
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In this episode, we reflect on some of our favorite topics from 2021 and discuss the goals for the podcast in 2022.
All you need to know about ASA and ABS 3D printing filaments, from their similarities and their differences, to when to use each material.
Rosti provide injection molding and contract manufacturing services to industries as diverse as packaging, consumer and business appliances, automotive, and healthcare and medical.
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In this episode, we talk about how a breakthrough with compact laser nano-printers can make them more accessible for researchers and how leveraging 3D printing technology and machine learning will provide essential insight for developing next-gen cochlear implants.
Boosting the quality and repeatability of parts by decreasing tool deflection to fulfill customers' precision demands is critical. Tool deflection leads to rapid tool wear and elevates the possibility of tool breakage.
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Impact Footwear is a startup that developed the first customizable flip flop sandal with three different pressure zones that is manufactured-on-demand with SLS 3D printing.
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3D printing can offer a wide range of advantages over more traditional manufacturing techniques. However, in general there are four major areas where it can come out in front of those processes.
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PLA is an affordable and reliable workhorse filament for FDM 3D printing. But some material developers claim to have made PLA filament better by mixing it with additives, creating an enhanced variant of the material called PLA+.
With the help of Ultimaker 3D printers, Ones Technology offers 25-30 products designed to be mass produced.
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Based on the 'Crover Effect' for locomotion in granular media, the CROVER robot is able to move through bulk solids and powders. The team wins $25,000 of manufacturing support from Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials to take their design to the next level.
The engineers of DMG MORI’s ADDITIVE INTELLIGENCE team redesigned the Robo2Go head for additive manufacturing using nTopology. The new design is 62% lighter, has 60% fewer components, and improves the handling precision of the robot by a factor of 16x.
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