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Recycling 3D printing materials: 4 possible solutions Last week in a comment, Paul asked me, “When will more eco and sustainable materials be available for use in these printers? Something like hemp plastic or other biodegradable materials? What are the technical limitations and who is working on them?” His question was a bit too big for a comment so I”mtrying to answer it here. ABS- Recycling existing 3D printing materials ABS is one of the world’s most widely used 3D printing materials. Glass-Using materials that are already recycled as 3D printing materialsThe Vitraglyphic & Prometal glass 3D printing processes are also very promising. PLA- BioplasticsOne promising 3D printing material is PLA or polylactic acid. Recyclebot-recycling on location.Recyclebot is possible one of the best ideas ever. So I hope the above section gives you a good idea of some of the materials that are out there and who is working on them (there are many more!). Glass image is property of Open3DP.

Mededeling: cookies Tegenlicht kijkt mee over de schouder van een man die ondanks de crisis een overvloedige toekomst verwacht: Peter Diamandis. Door technologische ontwikkelingen wordt het leven beter dan ooit. Terwijl de wereld in crisis is, is één man positiever dan ooit. Zijn naam is Peter Diamandis, en hij is ervan overtuigd dat we de komende decennia alle grote problemen in de wereld kunnen oplossen. Diamandis, schrijver van het boek ‘Abundance’, verkondigt zijn ideeën op de door hemzelf en de bekende futuroloog Ray Kurzweil opgerichte ‘ Singularity University’, midden in Silicon Valley. In deze uitzending kijkt Tegenlicht naar de wereld door de ogen van Peter Diamandis. Maar de ideeën van Peter Diamandis gaan verder dan specifieke technologische oplossingen. En alsof het allemaal nog niet snel genoeg gaat, wijst Diamandis erop hoe we allemaal meedoen aan deze versnelling. Regie: Martijn Kieft Research: Gerko Wessel Productie: Marie Schutgens Eindredactie: Henneke Hagen & Frank Wiering

Blog : GE Global Research Even though we grew up on opposite sides of the world, my colleague Prabhjot Singh in India, and I in Ohio, both of us had the same favorite toy as young boys, building blocks. Starting with a few simple shapes, we could build structures limited only by our imagination. First it was a house, then it was a factory, then it was baseball stadium, or was that a soccer park? We could build almost any solid shape just by adding the blocks by hand, one at a time, to the structure (and mixing in a little bit of imagination.) After many years, and comments from our friends that we haven’t grown up, we find ourselves still imagining interesting structures and ”playing with blocks” to build things all over again. Every science student learns that the real “building blocks” that make up every structure are atoms and molecules. Prabhjot’s technical background focused on manufacturing technology. All of these imagers contain a transducer, which is the part that actually touches your body.

h+ Magazine | Covering technological, scientific, and cultural trends that are changing human beings in fundamental ways. Eray Ozkural December 23, 2013 During writing a paper for the 100 Year Starship Symposium, I wished to convince the starship designers that they should acknowledge the dynamics of high-technology economy, which may be crucial for interstellar missions. Thus motivated, I have made a new calculation regarding infinity point, also known as the singularity. According to this most recent revision of the theory of infinity point, it turns out that we should expect Infinity Point by 2035 in the worst case. Infinity Point was the original name for the hypothetical event when almost boundless amount of intelligence would be available in Solomonoff's original research in 1985 (1), who is also the founder of mathematical Artificial Intelligence (AI) field. The original theory arrives at the Infinity Point conclusion by making a few simple mathematical assumptions, and solving a system of equations. Therefore, I updated the Infinity Point Hypothesis, using Koomey's Law instead in two papers. .

Artificial blood vessels created on a 3D printer 16 September 2011Last updated at 11:49 By Katia Moskvitch Technology reporter, BBC News Artificial blood vessels could help those in urgent need of an organ transplant Artificial blood vessels made on a 3D printer may soon be used for transplants of lab-created organs. Until now, the stumbling block in tissue engineering has been supplying artificial tissue with nutrients that have to arrive via capillary vessels. A team at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has solved that problem using 3D printing and a technique called multiphoton polymerisation. The findings will be shown at the Biotechnica Fair in Germany in October. Out of thousands of patients in desperate need of an organ transplant there are inevitably some who do not get it in time. In Germany, for instance, more than 11,000 people have been put on an organ transplant waiting list in 2011 alone. Continue reading the main story “Start Quote End QuoteDr Gunter TovarFraunhofer Institute, Germany Elastic biomaterials

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