Nanoscribe Will Sell a Micro 3-D Printer That Creates Tiny Structures in Seconds

Nanoscribe, a spin-off from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, has developed a tabletop 3-D microprinter that can create complicated microstructures 100 times faster than is possible today. “If something took one hour to make, it now takes less than one minute,” says Michael Thiel, chief scientific officer at Nanoscribe. While 3-D printing of toys, iPhone covers, and jewelry continues to grab headlines (see “The Difference Between Makers and Manufacturers”), much of 3-D printing’s impact could be at a much smaller scale. Micrometer-scale printing has shown promise for making medical and electronic devices. Thiel says it should be possible to speed up his company’s microprinting technique even more in the future. Nanoscribe plans to start selling its machine in the second half of this year. So far, 3-D microprinting has been used only in research laboratories because it’s pretty slow. The technology behind most 3-D microprinters is called two-photon polymerization.

The Printer That Can Print A 2,500 Square Foot House In 20 Hours. We have seen huge advancements in 3D printing. We’ve even seen oversized wrenches printed that measure 1.2 meters in length. Now, we can print an entire 2,500 sqft house in 20 hours. In the TED Talk video below, Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC), demonstrates automated construction, using 3D printers to build an entire house in 20 hours. In manufacturing we use a process called CAD/CAM (computer-aided design / computer-aided manufacturing). 3D models are designed on a computer and then manufactured using CNC Machines or 3D printers. The design is manufactured into a physical object automatically, with instruction from 3D computer model to physical object without human interface. In this video, we see a prototype of a machine called ‘Contour Crafting’ Michael Cooney Michael Cooney, the founder of EngNet, worked as a project engineer for many years sourcing equipment.

Check Out This Tiny 3-D Printed Spaceship | Wired Science The tiny spaceship in the video above was built using a microscale 3-D printer. At 125 micrometers long, the craft is about the length of a dust mite, and it took less than 50 seconds to produce. The super-fast, high-resolution printer that made the spaceship was introduced this week at the Photonics West fair by Nanoscribe GmbH , a company based in Germany that specializes in nanophotonics and 3-D laser lithography. The printer crafted the spaceship using two-photon polymerization, in which ultra-short laser pulses activate photosensitive building materials. Afterward, the ship — based on a Hellcat fighter from the Wing Commander Saga — was inspected using an electron microscope. While the spacecraft can’t fly, thereby limiting its usefulness for space exploration (unlike, say, 3-D printed astrofood ), the technology’s other tiny products include biological scaffolds, ultralight metamaterials, and channels that have found homes in biological research, photonics, and microfluidics.

Flo N' Go - Home - Scepter's patented "Flo n' go" gas pump handle allows you to stop and restart the flow of gas and is designed to eliminate gas spills and overfills. Will 3D-printed houses stand up as architecture? | Art and design 'Enter a new architecture' ... 3D-printed house by Janjaap Ruijssenaars. Photograph: Universe Architecture 3D-printing may have been used for a long time in the world of architecture, allowing visionaries to conjure ever more elaborate and unbuildable forms from the ether. But the technology has never been used to build anything bigger than a prototype model. This could all be set to change, now that Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars has unveiled designs for the world's first 3D-printed house. Working with mathematician and artist Rinus Roelofs, Ruijssenaars plans to create the building in sections of up to 6x9m, printed using the D-Shape printer. "By simply pressing the 'enter' key on the keypad we intend to give the architect the possibility to make buildings directly," says Dini, "without intermediaries who can add interpretation and make mistakes in the realisation."

Drink This! Cup Show 2014 Photos » Workhouse Ceramics Drink This! Workhouse International Ceramic Cup Show 2014 Drink This! Thank you! Pam Eisenmann- Co-CuratorJoan Ulrich- Co-CuratorDale Marhanka-Ceramics Director Cups are probably one of the most unassuming, yet challenging forms to make. Potters seem to be quite particular about what they like about cups and why. I was so inspired to see such a diverse range of cup forms, surfaces, decoration and building processes. Each of us will have different visceral reactions to different pots based on our own personal histories. Juror-Sam Chung Awards 1st Place - $250-Nicole Aquillano-Massachusetts 2nd Place - $150- Brad Willis-Massachusetts 3rd Place - $100-Jess Carter-Florida Honorable Mentions Richard Peterson-Ohio Ted Neal-Indiana Stephanie Wright-Maine Lauren Karle-Kansas Suzanne Wolfe-Hawaii Abel Lakatos-Hungary Exhibit Photos

uld the house of the future look like a spider's web? Out-there architects issue plan for 3D-printed home Concept put together by London-based architecture collective Softkill DesignThey are the latest entrants to the race to put together the first 3D-printable homeComponents would be manufactured off-site then stuck together like velcro By Damien Gayle Published: 18:43 GMT, 14 February 2013 | Updated: 21:56 GMT, 16 February 2013 The house of the future could be built from plastic and look like a spider's web, if one group of conceptual architects have their way. London-based architecture collective Softkill Design have created this concept for the first 3D printed house, and say the first prototype could be built by this summer. They are the latest entrants to a race to construct the first 3D printed home, which could revolutionise house building and even potentially solve the UK's housing crisis. Scroll down for video The house of the future? 'It would take up to three weeks to have all the pieces fabricated,' said Gilles Retsin, a member of the collective, to Dezeen.com.

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KamerMaker Deep Watering Tomatoes for a Bumper Crop | Reclaim, Grow, Sustain As the plant that often seems to be the central highlight of the summer gardening season for most folks, everyone wants the biggest and shiniest tomatoes possible. So there are no shortage of tips and tricks out there to develop the size and sheen of tomatoes. But most of these tips and tricks only slightly improve the plant's production, many of them seeming to do nothing at all - mental bias and imagination can go a long way in supporting useless tricks. Well, here's one method that the people who try it have a hard time not noticing a difference in their plants. Now why would you want to water deeper in the first place? Not to forget, there's also the added benefits of being very water efficient as well as reducing blight because water won't be splashing all over the plant. Now here's how you do it. Dig a hole on either side of where you're going to have a tomato plant. Place a piece of perforated pipe about 16"-20" long in each hole.