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Novel 'ink' for light-based 3D printing enables color-changing, conducting polymer structures

A new type of "ink" makes it possible to 3D print electrochemically switchable, conducting polymers using a light-based ...
The Next Layer on MSN

How to Recycle Your 3D Prints Affordably

This video is part 4 of my attempt to build an affordable 3D printer filament recycling setup. I aim to create a DIY, at-home ...
EurekAlert!

Morphing 3D-printed structures from flat to curved, in space

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have developed a new method to 3D-print flat composite structures ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN

Engineers 3D-print flat sheets that transform into curved satellite structures in space

A team led by aerospace Ph.D. student Ivan Wu and his advisor Jeff Baur has developed a low-energy, scalable technique that ...
Hackaday

Make Your Own Color Gradient 3D Printing Filament

Color gradient filament is fun stuff to play with. It lets you make 3D prints that slowly fade from one color to another along the Z-axis. [David Gozzard] wanted to do some printing with this effect, ...
VoxelMatters

How Smart Materials 3D turns oysters, pine and cork into 3D printing materials

Smart Materials 3D specializes in transforming agro-industrial waste—including olive pits, oyster shells and cork into—3D ...