News 3D printing news.

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/09/17/a-look-into-powder-materials-for-metal-3d-printing/

The market for 3D printing is poised for an explosive growth. Today, a plethora of 3D printing techniques can shape objects from an ever growing list of materials – photo-polymeric resins, extruded filament, powders of plastics, pure metals and alloys, etc.

Metal additive processes such as metal powder bed fusion and directed energy deposition are potentially capable of producing high-quality, functional and load bearing parts from a variety of metallic powder materials. However, “one-size-fits-all” doesn’t apply well to industrial additive manufacturing and when it comes to high value parts and critical applications, it’s crucial to know the pros and cons of these processes and how they apply to a chosen material, or to partner with an expert who does.

 

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/...IGN&utm_term=0_695d5c73dc-b1bbb1fc77-64543285
3D Printed Rocket Engine to Send MoonEx Lander to the Moon.

Nice videos, never heard of the Rutherford rocket engine before. Interesting idea using electric turbo-pumps.

N.

 

[Notebook]

3D printing and a kitten, ahh!

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2015/...eps-thanks-to-students-3d-printed-wheelchair/

 

[Notebook]

US researchers have developed what they call a "molten glass sewing machine" by combining 3D printing of glass with a mathematical model of how a liquid thread forms different types of loop.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35171408

 

[Notebook]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35247318

A desktop 3D printer that uses paper, ink and glue to create highly detailed objects has been unveiled at the CES tech show in Las Vegas.

 

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/...IGN&utm_term=0_695d5c73dc-82c720753b-64543285

At CES, today, the asteroid mining firm displayed a part that was 3D printed from alien metal. First, the Planetary Resources took a meteorite that landed in Argentina during prehistoric times and processed it using plasma, converting the rock into metallic powder.

 

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/...IGN&utm_term=0_695d5c73dc-54fa6c9c9e-64543285

Circuits from Space! ESA to Develop 3D Printing Breadboard Machine for the ISS

 

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/02/12/66608/

3D printing graphene. That could be useful, if its real of course.

N.

 

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/...IGN&utm_term=0_695d5c73dc-b1551fc0d1-64543285

AeroJet Rocketdyne Successfully Test-Fires 3D Printed Rocket Injector

 

[Notebook]

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/03/3D-printed_antenna

A prototype 3D-printed antenna being put to work in ESA’s Compact Antenna Test Facility, a shielded chamber for antenna and radio-frequency testing.

“This is the Agency’s first 3D-printed dual-reflector antenna,” explains engineer Maarten van der Vorst, who designed it.

“Incorporating a corrugated feedhorn and two reflectors, it has been printed all-in-one in a polymer, then plated with copper to meet its radio-frequency (RF) performance requirements

 

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/...ed:+3dPrintingIndustry+(3D+Printing+Industry)

The launch of the Cygnus cargo ship, which will occur tomorrow Tuesday, March 22nd at 11:05 pm EST, will see the Made In Space Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) head to the ISS, where it will begin 3D printing orders for over 20 customers already secured by Made In Space.

 

[Donamy]

Exciting times.

 

[n122vu]

This endeavor, along with Made In Space’s Archinaut project for 3D printing large-scale structures in space, is designed to enable manufacturing in space itself, to lighten the load for rockets on Earth.

Someone in the Marketing department at Made in Space really sold this well. You still have to get the same amount of material up to the ISS, whether it's assembled/printed down here or up there, so in the end there's absolutely no cost savings associated with fuel. You're still paying $10,000 per pound regardless.

 

[Hielor]

Someone in the Marketing department at Made in Space really sold this well. You still have to get the same amount of material up to the ISS, whether it's assembled/printed down here or up there, so in the end there's absolutely no cost savings associated with fuel. You're still paying $10,000 per pound regardless.

Except that now you can pay $10k/lb for "generic replicator stuff" and then when you need a widget in space you can just print it there instead of needing to launch a rocket holding a widget.

Plus, for structures that are mostly air, you can send up a compact wad of generic replicator stuff instead, which means a smaller fairing and therefore less mass. Theoretically?

 

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/...ed:+3dPrintingIndustry+(3D+Printing+Industry)
More marketing, is there no shame...?

Atlas V Rocket Soars with 3D Printed Parts

 

[Notebook]

Things are really taking off...

On March 22, Rocket Lab announced that the Rutheford had completed its qualification tests, publishing the above video of a hot fire test in which the engine was fired for more than two and a half minutes. As a result, the company has planned to launch Electron from their site in New Zealand in the middle of this year. If all goes well, Electron will send satellites made by Spire into Earth orbit over the course of twelve missions from late 2016 to 2017. Rocket Lab Chief Executive Peter Beck said of the news, “We are seeing the vehicle come together, and are looking to move to manufacturing at quantity for both our test and commercial flights.”

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/...ed:+3dPrintingIndustry+(3D+Printing+Industry)

N.

 

[Notebook]

Not sure if this is a Lirpa Loof...

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/...ed:+3dPrintingIndustry+(3D+Printing+Industry)

Seems genuine, never heard of OpenSCAD, looks interesting
http://www.openscad.org/

N.

 

[Notebook]

http://3dprintingindustry.com/2016/...ed:+3dPrintingIndustry+(3D+Printing+Industry)

Planetary & Space 3D Printing May Be Possible with Selective Separation Sintering

 

[Urwumpe]

Some new technology from the MIT: 3D-printed hydraulics, ready to use when it leaves the printer.

http://groups.csail.mit.edu/drl/wik...able_Hydraulics-A_methods_for_fabricating.pdf

 

[Notebook]

That's remarkable, I do like the hexapod robot.

N.