The BLACKBELT 3D printer is a new type of 3D printer using fused filament fabrication in combination with a unique belt technology. Printing on a belt (patent pending) provides new possibilities, like long prints, printing horizontal overhangs without support and producing series production of same or individual parts.
After a long and challenging process of engineering, designing, constructing, and testing, This marvel is ready for the world.
The 3D printed bridge spans 12.5 meters long and 6.3 meters wide. It took 4 printing robots. 6 months of printing. 4,500 kg of stainless steel, and 1100 km of wire.
The bridge also includes a smart sensor network, to verify its structural integrity.
Before the bridge could be built, a virtual replica had to be created for stress testing
The 3D printing texture gives the bridge a more artistic feel. But the pattern differs in certain sections.
The bridge is currently on display. And will soon be installed over one of the oldest and most famous canals in the center of Amsterdam.
In the near future we'll be able to print bridges on location. Thanks to the initial work by MX3D.
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https://mx3d.com/news/
Researchers at MIT, Harvard University and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the US developed a method for 3D printing objects that can control living organisms in a predictable way. Called hybrid living materials, the team precisely incorporated various chemicals into the 3D printing process.
Lear More:
https://news.mit.edu/2020/3-d-bioprinting-living-materials-0123
The objective is to make a robust design tool for producing objects and devices incorporating living biological elements, made in a way that is as predictable and scalable as other industrial manufacturing processes.
A method for printing 3D objects that can control living organisms in predictable ways has been developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers at MIT and elsewhere. The technique may lead to 3D printing of biomedical tools, such as customized braces, that incorporate living cells to produce therapeutic compunds such as painkillers or topical treatments, the researchers say.
The new development was led by MIT Media Lab Associate Professor Neri Oxman and graduate students Rachel Soo Hoo Smith, Christoph Bader, and Sunanda Sharma, along with six others at MIT and at Harvard University’s Wyss Institute and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The system is described in a paper recently published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials.
Learn more: https://news.mit.edu/
The University of Maine broke three world records when it unveiled a boat produced by its polymer 3D printer. The 3D printer can produce objects as long as 100 feet, and printed a 25 foot, 5000 pound patrol boat in just 72 hours.
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The ToolChanger is available to buy now! Back in March it was announced that we’ve been developing what might just be the coolest thing to hit 3D printing in a very long time, our tool-changing motion system! Hopefully this blog post answers most of your questions but as always we know that you will be eager to find out more, therefore...
We’ve been building a tool-changing 3D printer, and an incredible motion system to support it. TL:DR: We’ve developed a tool-changing 3D printer, which might just be the coolest thing to hit 3D printing in a very long time. We’ve built it on what we think is one of the best motion systems ever put on a printer. Note this blog...
Buy it on e3D online:
https://e3d-online.com/tc-ms
Find Stl's & CAD files on Thingiverse:
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3880296
AREVO has announced a partnership with boutique bike manufacturer Franco Bicycles to deliver the world's first 3D printed, continuous carbon fibre single-piece unibody frame for a new line of eBikes Franco will sell under the "Emery" brand. For more information see the IDTechEx report on 3D Printing 2019-2029.
AREVO DNA™ technology is unique in the additive manufacturing (AM) world as it features patented software algorithms enabling generative design techniques, free-motion robotics for "True 3D" construction, and direct energy deposition for virtually void free construction all optimised for anisotropic composite materials.
The unibody bike frame construction uniquely enabled by AREVO technology is made as a single part, in contrast to current composite frames, which are made of many parts glued together. With AREVO's intelligent continuous carbon fibre placement, unprecedented structural integrity and stability are achieved. Finally, the AREVO DNA AM process takes the design and final manufacture of a bike frame from 18 months to just a few days at a significant reduction in product development costs.
The frames are in production now at AREVO's new multi-purpose facility in Milpitas and this achievement with the Emery One represents several breakthroughs for bicycle manufacturers, with implications for other industries as well. These breakthroughs include:
True serial, volume production of AM-made composite parts that are made with thermoplastic materials, which are tougher, durable and recyclable, as compared to brittle and non-recyclable thermoset materials
A replacement of a laborious manual process with a fully-automated, "lights out" production model
Delivering on the promise of localized manufacturing or "on-shoring," which creates greater independence for bike brands
A much greater "freedom of design" for bike manufacturers that creates the possibility of fully-customized bikes made on an "on demand" basis, an approach AREVO calls "DESIGN. PRINT. GO.