Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend Engadget first ever “Engadget Expand” conference. Billed as event “designed from the ground up for technology fans” it seemed like a perfect fit. Before the event I went through all of the videos for the included Insert Coin competition, read up on the various speakers and exhibitors, […]
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A lot of the recent posts here deal with 3D printing but that is only half of the new industrial revolution. The other half is creating models for printing. What if creating a cool model was as easy as taking a picture with an iPhone? That is the goal of a new Kickstarter campaign Moedls.
I have attended lots of conferences before, for the Manufacturing, Toy, and CAD industries but never a pure tech conference. This weekend Engadget is putting on their first ever “Engadget Expand” that I was lucky enough to grab a pass to. The San Francisco setting allows the trip will be parlayed into a quick excursion
Additive manufacturing machines, or 3D printers, are being hailed as the next industrial revolution, but what are they? To understand the various types of AM machines and their capabilities take a closer look at some of the more popular models. Each of the devices below was developed by separate OEMs (although at least one has
Formlabs was founded by a handful of top engineers who realized that additive manufacturing was an amazing technology that still was unattainable for so many people. To fix that problem they decided to drive down the barrier to entry and went with the relatively new funding technique of crowd sourcing through Kickstarter. When they launched they had
In early 2009 a handful of interested parties were creating kits that could be assembled into 3D printers. RepRap, the original organization, was a non-profit group that met to discuss and advance the interests of it’s members. Not unlike the groups in silicon valley that met to dicuss personal computing, the groups that ultimately led
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Admittedly I have never seen a functioning EOS machine but it has one feature that just seems like fun. Titanium. That’s right, 3D printing in one of the hardest manufacturing materials around. Billed as “for aerospace and engineering applications and biomedical implants” this is one of those features that will break new technological ground. One
ZCorp used to be one of the larger manufacturers of 3D printers and additive manufacturing machines and then they were bought by an even larger player in the space, 3D Systems. Once the acquisition of ZCorp went through 3D Systems began rolling most of the existing ZCorp line into their own. One of the primary
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Not to be outdone by printers that use chocolate or paper, ExOne’s M-Lab printer outputs materials in metal. Direct Metal Laser Sintering or DMLS works with under nearly the same principles as many of the printers that use plastic but instead can use proprietary materials to produce parts in stainless steel, bronze, tungsten or glass.
The Fortus series of 3D printers, or additive manufacturing machines, is in no way designed for the everyday consumer. Instead Stratasys has positioned each of these machines as a high end industrial solution for manufacturing. Basically these machines are competitors to full fledged machine shops and injection molding machines. If their marketing videos do not
