Another Monday, proudly presenting 3D printing articles from all over the world!
Did you know? - the Invisalign System® invisible dental braces (shown above) are 3D printed! They are made by Align Technologies, originally known for being a startup in the dental industry! Read the cool back story here provided by 3D Systems.
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Innovation
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"Stereolithography is best known for its ability to print large objects such as tools and car parts. The difference, said Chen, is in the micro- and nanoscale resolution required to print tissues that mimic nature's fine-grained details, including blood vessels, which are essential for distributing nutrients and oxygen throughout the body."
Read more on ANI news
(submitted by @krollster)
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"Imagine a world where lab workers can create their own custom equipment in-house, using either their own designs or ones they've downloaded. A glimpse of that world appears in today's issue of Science, provided by 3D printing, the relatively low-cost fabrication technique where ceramics, polymers, and other materials are deposited in layers to build up a three-dimensional shape."
Read more on ars technica
(submitted by @dylansimpson)
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Politics
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"Government regulation on 3D printing is becoming a larger topic as this technology is becoming much more available for the average consumer to get their hands on. With desktop printers dropping steadily below $2,000 – almost anyone can gain access to a printer. Aside from that, 3D printing services exist on an international level. With the availability of this kind of manufacturing, the wrong hands can get ahold of some dangerous parts.
To my knowledge, a very limited amount of criminal activity has occurred through 3D printing. However, that’s not to say that no criminal activity will arise."
Read more on 3D Printing's website
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Materials
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"The intent of this DIY is to explain how to build a test apparatus to determine the safety of the material you are using to print your parts. Of course in dong so, we were able to measure and report on various common matereials."
Read the whole instructable and findings
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Tools
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"BotQueue is an online platform for distributing print jobs to multiple 3D printers for production. As the name suggests, it allows you to create a print queue which contains jobs. Your connected bots will grab jobs and produce them. As each job is competed, the operator is prompted to remove and verify the output. Upon successful completion, the bot will grab the next job and start producing it. This continues until the queue is empty. If a bot fails, it is taken offline for repairs."
Read more on Hoektronics
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Thank you to our excellent content submitters for this issue! If you have a suggestion, send the link along to submissions@3dprintweekly.com and we might just include it. See you next week!
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