If you've been living under a rock this last week, you may have missed the wildly popular Form 1 printer by Formlabs popping up on Kickstarter. They reached their 1 hundred thousand dollar goal in just 2.5 hours! They're currently sitting at more than a million dollars right now, I've included the project link in below if you'd like to know more.
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New 3D Printers
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"Stereolithography (SL) is the gold standard for accuracy and resolution in the 3D printing world, reaching layer thicknesses and feature sizes that are worlds ahead of what is possible with FDM. The process is pretty straightforward - a laser is used to draw on the surface of a liquid plastic resin that hardens when exposed to a certain wavelength of light. The laser draws and hardens a layer at a time until the entire model is built. It’s simple, reliable, and quiet."
Read more on Formlab's Kickstarter project page
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"3D printing isn’t just about shoes and toys anymore. The emerging technology that continues to amaze is now being used to create objects as high as 11.5 feet tall and as wide as 6.5 feet. The amazing contraption has been housed inside a 20-foot stainless steel shipping container."
Read more on Geek
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Open Source
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"Teenage Engineering not only make one of the sexiest synthesizers but also get the prize for being the first electronics company to offer their replacement parts as downloadable 3D Printed files."
Read more on Shapeways Tumblr
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Innovation
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"Three-dimensional printing may have little in common with sustainability—at first blush, anyway—but the rapid-prototyping process has a litany of surprisingly green benefits.
The emerging technology, which uses ultraviolet beams to fuse layers of powdered, recyclable thermoplastic into shape, leaves behind virtually no waste. Its localized production and one-size-fits-all approach also racks up markedly fewer travel miles, requires less labor, and compresses fabrication time to a matter of hours, rather than weeks or months."
Read more on Ecouterre
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Creative
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"These days I get a lot of questions about 3D printing, and how my jewellery is made using this super sweet technology. I thought I’d share a little more of the process in this post. I hope it answers some of the questions, and encourages curious ones to take the plunge and order their own creations from an online 3D printing service."
Read more on Owl Posse
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Events
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"3D printing is gaining greater attention!
[...] This has spurred an international interest in AM, 3D printing and 3D imaging in manufacturing and other industries. There’s no better time than now to share your innovative research, case study or application with an audience razor focused on AM. Become a RAPID 2013 Speaker!"
Read more on RAPID website
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