Designing a 3-D printed structure is hard enough when the product is inches or feet in size. Imagine shrinking it smaller than a drop of water, smaller even than a human hair,…
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Renegade is a 3D-Printing Pen that works by recyling Plastic Bottles, Files and Bags
Renegade is a kickstarter project for creating 3D-printing pen that works by recyling household plastic waste like plastic bottles, files and bags. The idea was born out of a concern for the…
Building Lab Instruments One Block at a Time. 3D-printed Lego-like Science Tools
A team of researchers and students at the University of California, Riverside has created a Lego-like system of blocks that enables users to custom make chemical and biological research instruments quickly, easily…
MIT’s Cilllia makes 3D Printing of Hair easy
These days, it may seem as if 3-D printers can spit out just about anything, from a full-sized sports car, to edible food, to human skin. But some things have defied the…
Printing metal in midair. 3D Printing and Laser Annealing of conductive metallic inks
“Flat” and “rigid” are terms typically used to describe electronic devices. But the increasing demand for flexible, wearable electronics, sensors, antennas and biomedical devices has led a team at Harvard’s Wyss Institute…