Good morning! Monday is here once again.
3D printing in space and on the streets in this issue,
enjoy <3
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Innovation
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"Working in the same manner as the "3D printing pen" except instead of your shaky hand trying to make a recognizable shape from an ooze of hot plastic cooled by a fan, this process uses two thermosetting polymers which set when combined by a precision robot actually 3D Printing in space."
Read more on the Shapeways blog
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"With support from NASA, the firm, Systems and Materials Research Corp of Austin, intends to design, build and test a food printer that can work in space.
'This project is to demonstrate we can create and change the nutrition of the food and be able to print it in a low-gravity environment,' the company's research director and lead chemist, David Irvin, told Reuters."
Read more on Reuters
Submitted by @BillTomiyasu
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Culture
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"The Zew is a place for a sub-species of public art or graffiti made for 3d. We use 3d printers or rapid prototyping technologies to make this happen."
See The Zew's website for photos
Submitted by @xutraa
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Medical
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"Kaiba’s life was saved by a brand-new field of regenerative medicine based on plastics and inkjet printers. Doctors at the University of Michigan used CT scans of Kaiba’s little airways to custom-design a scaffolding to pull open the passages and hold them open until they could grow strong and healthy on their own."
Read more on NBC
Submitted by @aakin and @robin1473
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