Polyamide. The Urbee Hybrid is the World's First 3-D Printed Car. If you thought that the Porsche hybrid was an incredible piece of automotive design, then you’ll be blown away by the Urbee. The entire body of this streamlined new gasoline/ethanol hybrid has been generated using 3-D printing technology. A collaborative design by Stratasys and Kor Ecologic, the Urbee is the first car ever to have its entire body printed using additive manufacturing processes. The Urbee was designed for the 2010 X-Prize Competition — the eco-friendly vehicle able to get up to 200 mpg on the highway and 100 mpg in city conditions using either gasoline or ethanol. An undoubtedly innovative design with a keen futuristic aesthetic, the Urbee also signals what could be a shift towards more efficient and flexible automotive manufacturing. “FDM lets us eliminate tooling, machining, and handwork, and it brings incredible efficiency when a design change is needed,” Jim Kor, president and chief technology officer at Kor Ecologic explains.
. + Stratasys Via Fast Company. 3D printing in titanium @Makezine.com blog. 3D printing service i.materialise just announced that they now print in titanium. We’re overjoyed that we’re the world’s first 3D printing service to let consumers order titanium 3D prints. Titanium 3D printing opens up an entirely new world of advanced engineering, manufacturing and jewelry applications for creative people worldwide. Titanium’s high heat resistance, high accuracy and unparalleled strength lets designers now make things that before now could only be made by the research and development departments of only the largest corporations in the world.
By putting this technology in the public’s hands were democratizing manufacturing and giving you the opportunity to, design and order something this is exactly as you want it to be. Be sure to check out the tech specs before you buy. And it’s expensive — 4cm print with 8 cubic cm in volume is $547! John Baichtal My interests include writing, electronics, RPGs, scifi, hackers & hackerspaces, 3D printing, building sets & toys. Related. Makerbot Thing-o-Matic 3D Printer Print Pictures & Product Review | Preston Lee's Blog. The Makerbot Thing-o-Matic, fully assembled and ready to print. [Update: Welcome back, Slashdot! :) This site is in full lockdown mode, so comments may take a little while to appear, but please leave them anyway! You may also want to check out the previous assembly photos also featured on Slashdot.] Overview 3D printing has attracted notable attention in recent years, capturing interests of both geeks and laymen due to the obvious potential of a machine that fabricates three-dimensional shapes at will.
I’ve had my Makerbot Thing-o-Matic working for about a month, and I have to assume it only gets cooler from here. The Unboxening & Assembly Unboxing of the Thing-o-Matic kit. After a couple months of girlish waiting, my DIY Makerbot Thing-o-Matic kit arrived in December 2010. Software Installation My 3D model of an identical pair of custom solar cell brackets, done in Google SketchUp. Install the Arduino driver, if not already installed. The workflow is initially very daunting and cumbersome. Scan 3D. Will 3D printing revolutionise manufacturing? 28 July 2011Last updated at 00:09 By Peter Day Presenter, In Business Loughborough University's machines can even print larger structures such as building materials With the creation of many products - including building materials - now possible at the touch of a button, will 3D printing sound the death knell for mass production?
In a way there is nothing new about 3D printing. For several decades it has been called "rapid prototyping": a quick way of making one-off items from fused plastic or metal powder, using expensive computer-controlled lasers that are at the heart of the "printers". But now 3D printing is coming into its own, and is being taken seriously as a manufacturing process by very big corporations. For 100 years, the manufacturing industry has been dominated by the idea of mass production. That was devised by Henry Ford in Detroit in the early 1900s to tackle a severe shortage of skilled labour when he wanted to start making the revolutionary Model T automobiles. 'Cost effective'
La impresora 3D portátil tiene un tamaño y precio relativamente pequeños. The disruptive future of printing. 30 April 2010Last updated at 10:07 Will we all have printers like this in the future? Printing solid objects is getting cheap and simpler, and the possibilities excite Bill Thompson Imagine a school where a student could sketch out an idea for a new design of bicycle and not only draw it in 3D using a computer-aided design package but actually create a scale-model and test it out, using inexpensive materials and a special printer that they can build themselves in the classroom. That's the vision put forward by Ben O'Steen, a software engineer with a social conscience who is thinking about the implications of a world where 3D printers are no longer just expensive prototyping systems for large companies but have fallen into the hands of the masses.
He has been inspired by the RepRap, a desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic parts by extruding a heated thermoplastic polymer under computer control, which then sets as it cools and makes a usable object. Future's here “Start Quote.