The 3D printer has launched and reached the International Space Station (ISS) today with an early morning docking. I woke up and watched the launch live on NASA TV, pretty amazing. Continue reading
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3D Printer Launches Tonight! Watch Live on NASA TV!
Ready for launch!
It happens tonight at around 2am EST! You can watch it all on NASA TV on either your television through or online at NASA TV digital! Coverage starts at 1am and we’ll report more tomorrow. See the official press release from Made In Space below: Continue reading
On September 19, 2014 3D Printing and Space Collide!
SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft is grappled by Canadarm2 at the ISS (Credit: NASA)
Mark your calendar and watch the NASA channel online, through your TV provider or perhaps prepare to make a road trip because a 3D printer is going to space on September 19, 2014! You can keep track of the launch schedule here and updates from our buddies at Made In Space. You can read more about the mission as a whole and the other cargo at its Wikipedia page Continue reading
New Amazon Fire Phone a Perfect Fit for 3D Printing?
The new Amazon Fire Phone and the video above demonstrating the “dynamic perspective” immediately had me thinking of 3D printing applications. The way you could design, modify and check models could be revolutionary. The 4 face tracking cameras could easily also be reapplied for fast 3D scanning. Continue reading
T-Minus 2 Months: 3D Printer Headed for Space Station is Ready for Launch!
The Made In Space 3D printer will be the first manufacturing device ever used off Earth. It will be installed in the International Space Station to print a series of test items in 2014.
Our friends at Made In Space have a HUGE announcement! We’ve written about their work to put a 3D printer in space in the past and now it appears later this summer it will become a reality! Please see their exciting release below, we’re hopeful to attend the launch and report live in August! Continue reading
Chemistry printer?
I love Beaker. My background is chemistry, so I was excited to hear about the 3D printing of chemical reaction labware and the material to handle it. As a scientist I’ve know a few times the frustration of not having the perfect piece of equipment to do the job. Continue reading
Wood you like to 3D print a tree?
With my background in pulp and paper I was thrilled to see some new filaments made from wood! MCor has been around for a while with paper 3D printing, but we’re now talking real wood with texture, rings and the general look and feel you’d expect. Continue reading
Help Vote on the Local Motors 3D printed Car Design
Local Motors has launched an awesome 3D printed car challenge. Local Motors is a place where, “We operate a growing global network of microfactories. Each destination is a place (microfactory) where innovators create amazing products and consumers come to marvel and shop.” Local motors creates a space and a bullpen of engineers that entrepreneurs can collaborate with, both physically and virtually, to create amazing motored inventions. Think of it as an incubator of sorts, but highly focused to the automotive space. Continue reading
Foodini is 3D Printing Food Magic
I grew-up near Appleton, Wisconsin, Harry Houdini’s childhood home and home of a great museum. Houdini was known for his showmanship and your kitchen will be known for showmanship too if you get a Foodini 3D food printer by Natural Machines. Continue reading
3D Printing is Green Releasing Less CO2
Cape Tribulation in Australia where rain forest meets Great Barrier Reef is one of the “greenest” places on Earth.
We’ve talked before about some of the environmental benefits of 3D printing, but now there’s a study to put more quantitative numbers to the assumed qualitative environmental benefits. Without getting into the global warming politics, green manufacturing can be good business and in airplanes minimalist manufacturing can save weight and thus fuel and real dollars. Continue reading
Printing DDD 