I love some Weird Al, but this song actually made me think of a medical application of 3D printing. I’ve seen a number of articles recently about surgeons using 3D printing to help practice complex, new and unique surgeries. Continue reading
In space resources are limited. I’ve had a chance through friends who work at NASA to explore the Houston mock-up of the ISS. It’s surprisingly large, but imagine having to keep everything a group of people might need for months. Continue reading
Do you want in on the 3D printing revolution? Sure your could purchase a few shares of one of the large publicly traded companies, but it’s more exciting (and potentially more rewarding) to get in on the early stages of a company doing novel and exciting things. Right now WhiteClouds is raising funds over on Wefunder. Continue reading
Cosine Additive’s Twitter bio basically says it all:
Industrial grade open-platform additive manufacturing.
It’s 6 simple words, but in those brief words is a potential revolution. Continue reading
We’ve written before about “3D Printing for Dummies“. That one was literal about the entertainment kind and this one is too about the car crash kind. In this case the company Humanetics is using 3D printing Continue reading
According to the Associate Press:
A federal judge in Seattle has issued a temporary restraining order to stop the release of blueprints to make untraceable and undetectable 3D-printed plastic guns.
Defense Distributed has complied with the order. Stay tuned. So many conflicting rights in this case. As I’ve heard said, “when rights collide, courts decide.”
Several years ago we wrote about Cody Wilson of Defense Distributed about 3D printed guns and he’s back in the news this week in a big way. Through a settlement with the state department Continue reading
