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• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics have launched Microduck, an adorable $400 open source, trainable robot. The post Microducks Exude Macro Charm appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• INSTAGRAM I FACEBOOK I LINKED IN I YOU TUBE I WEBSITE Whitehorse, the capital of the Yukon Territory and traditional home to Kwanlin Dün First Nation and the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council, gained notoriety (and its European name) in the infamous Klondike Gold Rush. Fast forward one hundred years and the city has grown and diversified, […] The post Maker Faire North Of 60: Making In The Yukon appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• Phase3D is demonstrating a unique combination of technical maturation via intensive R&D, and commercialization through broadening its accessibility to potential users. Just last week, the company received an Air Force...
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• Materialise (Nasdaq: MTLS) grew revenue and profit in the second quarter of 2026, as its Medical business continued to expand, and stronger aerospace and defense demand helped its Manufacturing segment...
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• One topic that I do my best to stay on top of is the inseparability between rising adoption of metal additive manufacturing (AM) and the growing awareness of a need...
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• We’ve long had a passion at 3DPrint.com for Kirigami shapes, be it in the form of bandages, nano fabrication, or sensors. We also wrote a lot about metamaterials and, more...
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• If it feels like additive manufacturing and 3D printing technologies are finding a place in the mainstream of everyday products and life, it’s because they are. It has been a...
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• Creality (HKG: 3388) sold more products in the first half of 2026, but lower margins and higher spending pushed the consumer 3D printing company into the red. At the same...
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• Maintenance and interiors aircraft giant Lufthansa Technik is exploring 3D printing at greater depths, hoping to take its customers to the heights they’re accustomed to. A team at Lufthansa Technik...
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• Subaru of Indiana Automotive (SIA) is using Markforged Onyx GF to produce color-coded tooling for its multi-model automotive production operations. The material is being used to make variant-specific jigs easier for operators to identify while providing greater durability than previously used ABS parts. SIA runs multiple vehicle models simultaneously, creating situations where similar tools may…
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• A research team from Hannover Medical School, RWTH Aachen University, Technical University Darmstadt and the University of Twente has developed an additive manufacturing-based design framework for artificial lungs that uses triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) membranes in place of conventional hollow fiber bundles. Published in Advanced Materials, the study combines simulations, printable silicone materials and…
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• Caleb Kraft's cheap sip-and-puff game controller could be what a lot of quadriplegic gamers need. The post Cheap Sip-and-Puff Controller Inspires Gamers appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• In this series, we’re looking at the main considerations when designing and implementing a 3D printed product. In this case, we’re using Cathy’s 3D printed brace business as an example....
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• The Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC) boom was devastating for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry. Peaking in 2021 — and, of course, subsuming companies from industries far beyond AM —...
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• A new 3D printed stent developed at New York University (NYU) does not look like the devices doctors typically use today. Instead of a simple tube, the prototype resembles a...
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• We’re kicking things off today with software news, as the new Meshy 7 is now live. Then we’ll move on to business, with ExOne and voxeljet now operating as a...
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• HeyGears was started in 2015 and has been making value-driven Vat Polymerization systems for dental and home use. The company is marketing savvy and very driven. Now the firm has...
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• Copenhagen-based ATLANT 3D has launched NANOFABRICATOR PRO, a platform the company describes as the world’s first and only physical system linking AI-driven materials discovery to atomic-scale fabrication, experimental validation, and device prototyping. The launch addresses a gap the company has identified in materials research: AI models can now predict promising new materials, but testing whether…
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• Boston headquartered shoe company Reebok has reworked a 1990s sneaker using 3D printing, teaming up with former NBA player Allen Iverson and 3D printing footwear company Zellerfeld. The original shoe, called The Question, launched in 1996 and referenced Iverson’s nickname “The Answer.” It became a streetwear favorite following his rookie season with the Philadelphia 76ers,…
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• Fitting a motor and battery into a robot shrinks fast as the robot gets smaller, and at microgram scales it becomes close to impossible. Researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) have proposed a way around that limit: powering small robots with sound instead of onboard mechanical components, opening a path…
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• Hi3D, the browser-based AI model generation platform built on its proprietary Sparc3D engine, has launched Hi3D V3.0, an AI 3D generation model the company describes as the first commercially available version to reach 2048³ voxel resolution. The update centers on three areas: geometric detail, structural accuracy, and texture output. Finer Detail and Structural Accuracy At…
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• Anyone who’s spent half an hour sticking reflective dots across a car hood before firing a single scan line knows the frustration. On a vintage Porsche awaiting restoration, those markers can’t touch original paint. Museum artifacts prohibit them entirely. The markers aren’t the point of the job, but until now, there’s been no way around…
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• When I got back into SLA resin printing recently, I knew that I’d inevitably have to deal with the agony of failed prints and of course resin spills. This moment …read more
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• For years, additive manufacturing has promised engineers greater design freedom. The challenge wasn’t printing the part—it was proving the part belonged on an aircraft. Designing a lightweight bracket or consolidating...
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• In my most recent post about RIMPAC, I noted that US military joint exercises appear to be the latest function of the US government to be leveraged by the Trump...
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• Germany-based Malping, located in Neuhausen auf den Fildern, is moving into more high performance materials for Material Extrusion. The service operates FGF and FDM high-temperature material printers, and offers parts,...
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• America Makes has selected General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) to lead a $5.5 million program developing material allowables for a scandium-aluminum alloy across three classes of laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) 3D printers. Funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of War’s Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech), the program is called Generation Of…
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• Acmer's SM MOPA laser comes with great power, but leaves responsibility to the user. The post Acmer SM 60W MOPA Split Laser Review appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• Schendy Kernizan worked as a professor and researcher before co-founding RLP (Rapid Liquid Print), a company that extrudes silicone into a hydrogel. RLP allows for pure silicone to be made...
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• When he showed up on Google Meet for our interview, I could see that Philip Pounds, co-founder of Unlayered 3D, was seated shotgun in a moving car. I wasn’t sure...
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• The additive manufacturing (AM) industry has spent the last few years getting a lot more serious about business. Growth, profitability, consolidation, defense spending, supply chains, and scaling production now matter...
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• ATLANT 3D has launched a new industrial-scale manufacturing system as it works to bring its unusual form of atomic-scale additive manufacturing (AM) into semiconductors, AI materials research and advanced electronics....
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• HÖRMANN Vehicle Engineering (HVE) and its research partners have completed a 34-month project developing a tool-free, fully recyclable manufacturing process for large-format heavy-duty rail vehicle components. The team validated the technology by producing two demonstrator parts for Siemens Mobility‘s ICE 3neo (Velaro MultiSystem, Class 408) high-speed train: its nose section and front skirt. The “3D-FiberTrain”…
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• Bosch‘s manufacturing consulting arm Bosch Industry Consulting and German metal 3D printer manufacturer Nikon SLM Solutions have produced a complete V8 engine block as a single 3D printed piece in aluminum, using the NXG XII 600 metal additive manufacturing system at the Bosch Additive Solution Center in Nuremberg, Germany. The block was built in AlSi10Mg,…
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• Formnext Asia Shenzhen will open on 26 August 2026 as its biggest edition to date, spanning 20,000 sq.m. of Hall 15 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center and hosting 330 exhibitors over three days. Pre-registration data released ahead of the show points to strong momentum with international visitor sign-ups climbing over 50% compared…
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• Dutch 3D concrete printing company Vertico has completed its largest installation to date, deploying a full two-component (2K) printing system at the facility of Portuguese precast manufacturer Sirolis – Prefabricados de Betão, S.A. The system pairs a 3.2-meter extended ABB robot arm with a 6.7-meter track and raised carriage, mounted directly on top of a…
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• AM North, a Norwegian additive manufacturing company, has adopted amsight‘s production-level quality management software, cutting documentation work per project from roughly eight hours to 1.5–2 hours, according to Quality Magazine. The move addresses a scaling problem in AM North’s certified production process, where quality evidence had been compiled manually across Excel, Word, PDFs and paper…
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• Fourteen desktop 3D printers spent seven weeks producing the bones of a dinosaur that lived roughly 166 million years ago. The result is now on display at Blenheim Palace in...
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• Thanks to this LinkedIn Post by Lukas Ziegler, I found out about the Berkeley Humanoid Lite. Now I’ve always been quite skeptical of humanoid robots. Why not just get two...
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• Australian medical training device company Fusetec, Adelaide University, and the Additive Manufacturing Cooperative Research Centre (AMCRC) have embarked on an $800,000 collaborative research project. The project will develop a new generation of biomimetic dental training models, replicas designed to mechanically respond the way real teeth, jawbone, and soft tissue do under surgical force. The 18-month…
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• The Advanced Planning and 3D Manufacturing Unit (UPAM3D) at Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, part of the Community of Madrid, has reportedly designed, manufactured and implanted the world’s first personalized metamaterial bone prosthesis. Almost a year after the surgery, the patient, a 38-year-old man treated for a high-grade bone sarcoma in the tibia, has shown…
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• Supplier of professional SLA and SLS 3D printing systems Formlabs has appointed Dan Riccio, Apple‘s former Senior Vice President of Hardware Engineering, as a strategic advisor and investor. The announcement came with a wider reshuffle of the board, including a new chairman, a new president and the departure of co-founder Natan Linder after fifteen years.…
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• How many engineering decisions have been delayed by three to five business days because a functional prototype was sitting in a service bureau’s queue? It’s something nobody tracks formally, but anyone who has outsourced industrial 3D printing knows the arithmetic. You finalize a design on Tuesday, and by the time you’re holding a functional part,…
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• Internationally licensed maintenance, production and development organization Lufthansa Technik has replaced a damage-prone polymer latch on Airbus A330, A340, and A380 roller shutter assemblies with a redesigned titanium version, produced through metal 3D printing by Belgian additive manufacturing company Materialise. The new Ti-6Al-4V latch is manufactured under EN 9100 certification and is now flying on…
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• We’re starting with defense news in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs, before moving on to polymers for CubeSats and 3D printed prosthetics. We’ll end with a story about engineering...
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• For metal additive manufacturing (AM) to grow in the United States, companies need more than printers. They also need a reliable supply of the powders that go into those machines....
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• In 3D printing, key industries include things such as poka-yoke and manufacturing tools like jigs and fixtures. These low-volume tools save money and reduce errors. Refits in things like military...
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• Every kilogram sent into space comes at a cost. So engineers have spent decades finding ways to make spacecraft lighter. The next frontier will be producing some of the parts...
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• The RP2354A-powered Romu is smaller than a bread bag clip. The post Romu, the RP2350 Board Small Enough To Lose appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• For the fourth and final time, Royal Delft’s hand-painted trophies will stand on the podium of the Formula 1 Heineken Dutch Grand Prix, and this year’s edition carries an extra spark designed by FashionTech pioneer Anouk Wipprecht and artist-producer Don Diablo. Photo Credit : Royal Delft Where Craft Meets Circuitry Wipprecht designed both the winner’s […] The post Anouk Wipprecht Brings Delft Blue to Life and Light for the Final Dutch Grand Prix appeared first on Ma
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• In my most recent post about the 2026 edition of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC), a biannual exhibition that constitutes the world’s largest joint maritime exercise, I focused on the...
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• We’re starting with metal 3D printing business news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as SBO is expanding its capacity in the US and the UK, and Continuum Powders is...
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• Inspection software and tooling firm Phase3D has been given a Department of the Air Force contract. Its Fringe Inspection platform will be used in ceramic matrix composites (CMCs). CMCs are...
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• After Bedrock 3D split from BASF, the company was independent but still a little unsure about its future. The former Innofil3D operation, later dubbed Forward AM Technologies Netherlands, was BASF’s main...
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• Let’s look at what matters when we make things that matter. What considerations are there, what is important, what affects cost? Look at the levers in laser powder bed fusion,...
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• Metal additive manufacturing company 3DEO is being dismantled. On Tuesday, August 18, the remaining machinery at the company’s Torrance, California, factory went up for sale in an online auction. The...
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• Rejoice, ye process engineers! Your raised concerns do not go in vain. Additive manufacturing (AM) materials qualification is genuinely becoming the central focal point for commercialization efforts in the industry’s...
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• Prusa Research has updated its high-end desktop 3D printer lineup. The company is offering new and improved versions of the machines it targets at industrial and power users, with the...
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• Digital manufacturing service provider Protolabs has awarded a grant to support research fellows at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Performance Center (IPC) as they study how leading US manufacturers scale advanced technologies into domestic production. The research will examine why breakthrough technologies developed in the US do not always end up manufactured domestically,…
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• South Korean additive manufacturing company LincSolution has launched a three-year international research project to develop mass-production technology for 3D printed heat pump components, targeting entry into the AI data center cooling and electric vehicle thermal management markets. The project, called “Development of Next-Generation Heat Pump Miniaturization Technology,” runs from July 2026 through June 2029 and…
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