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Jordan Duncan originally started creating video game props as a way to demonstrate his prop making skills to the community. Over time, his project turned from a hobby into a successful business.
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Featuredcase study
Motorsport has always been the home of technological innovation. Engineers in the sport work around the clock, competing with brilliant innovators worldwide – experts from automotive, aerospace, data analysis, and many other fields – to create vehicles that are faster, stronger, and more resilient.
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Open Bionics is creating the next generation of prosthetic limbs. What sets these apart from traditional prosthetics is that all of the mechanical parts are 3D printed, bringing along considerable cost-savings.
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What is 3D printing? This article goes over the basics of 3D printing, otherwise known as additive manufacturing, covering its engineering principles and applications.
Microstepping Explained: Full Step, Half Step & Microstep
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Closed-Loop Stepper Motor: How Encoder Feedback Works
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Design for Additive Manufacturing: A DfAM Guide for Engineers
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3D Printing Supports: Types, Settings, and Removal (2026)
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PETG vs PLA: Key Differences, Strength, and How to Choose
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The Next Byte Podcast is hosted by two young engineers - Daniel and Farbod - who select the most interesting tech/engineering cont...
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E2IP Technologies manufactures Flexible Heaters using Screen Printing Technology. This is one of the most important segments of printed and additive electronics with applications in cars, homes, and industrial settings.
Here’s what to do if you notice clicking noises, under-extrusion, or other print quality issues caused by extruder skipping on the Ender 3 by Creality.
Unwanted lines in 3D prints can show up for many reasons and take different forms. Here we look at the most common types of lines in 3D prints and how to eliminate them.
KIT researchers are developing a process with which, for the first time, mirrors with a reflection of more than 99 percent can be printed in variable sizes
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In this episode, we explore how researchers have developed an AI system that can watch a 3D print as it's being made, detect mistakes, and automatically correct them before the print fails
In this episode, we explore a new 3D printable material that can quickly transform into a strong, bone-like scaffold capable of supporting new bone growth. Learn how this breakthrough could lead to faster recovery times and improve treatments for patients with serious bone injuries.
Unlock increased productivity with the BigRep ONE.5X, a cutting-edge large-scale FDM 3D printing.
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A live panel on how China, Europe, and the US are building, certifying, and reconciling additive manufacturing standards, and where those approaches still don't line up.
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Jordan Duncan originally started creating video game props as a way to demonstrate his prop making skills to the community. Over time, his project turned from a hobby into a successful business.
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Motorsport has always been the home of technological innovation. Engineers in the sport work around the clock, competing with brilliant innovators worldwide – experts from automotive, aerospace, data analysis, and many other fields – to create vehicles that are faster, stronger, and more resilient.
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Open Bionics is creating the next generation of prosthetic limbs. What sets these apart from traditional prosthetics is that all of the mechanical parts are 3D printed, bringing along considerable cost-savings.
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State-of-the-art technologies provide researchers with new insights
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Let's take a look at some of the Material Science and Rheology behind 3D printed concrete. This type of concrete is unique because it needs to be strong enough to support the next layer being printed on top.
How subtractive and additive manufacturing create the ideal equation for metal manufacturing
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This industrial 3D printing white paper explores the properties of thermoplastic and metal materials available with stereolithography, selective laser sintering, and direct metal laser sintering technologies. It also includes a quick-reference guide of material attributes.
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Surgeons, students, dentists, do you know that 3D printing is becoming one of the main tools of the medical industry?
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nTop Platform is helping companies realize products with Additive Manufacturing by integrating the Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM) workflow and removing inherent barriers to iterative redesign necessary to create breakthrough new products.
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Could 3D design serve as a new bridge between current standards and a breakthrough in athletic feats?
Read below to see how a Ph.D. student used nTop Platform to help him realize complex design intent
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Meet Mathilde Berchon, faithful member of the Maker community, Women in 3D Printing ambassador as well as 3D printing consultant & author.
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With just under a week before submissions close we share two very different ways to use COR Alpha from some of the incredible designs entered in the challenge.
A potentially life-saving monitoring system for hospital patients on general wards is one step nearer to reality thanks to Protolabs’ European Cool Idea Award.
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Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the University of Heidelberg have developed a photoresist for two-photon micro-printing with which, for the first time, three-dimensional polymer microstructures with cavities in nano-size can be produced.
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