Category Archives: In the News

UR 3D Printing in the News – Collegian and PBS

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Fred

Just this week, there were was a newspaper article and a videobyte about UR 3D printing.  The first is an article in The Collegian about the new (Solidoodle 3) UR CTLT 3D printer with a focus on Professor Fiona Ross’ … Continue reading →

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3D Printing Filament Tool

Posted on February 27, 2013 by Fred

Update: See updated design and photo of the prototype that can automatically feed at the end of this post (I have not yet tested heating). As much excitement as there is around the 3Doodler kickstarter project, it turns out that … Continue reading →

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3Doodler Kickstarter

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Fred

To be filed into the “I wish I thought of that” category is a new extremely minimalist for of 3D printer – the 3Doodler.  Every time I describe fused deposition modeling (the long-winded way of talking about the most common … Continue reading →

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Large Scale 3D Printing

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Fred

Cosmo Wenman, an artist who has scanned sculptures at such museums as the British Museum in London and the Getty Center in Los Angeles, has printed and assembled a couple remarkable works life size including the Head of a horse of … Continue reading →

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New 3D-Printed Beak for Bald Eagle

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Fred

There is a nice grist list article about a 3D printer being employed to restore a bald eagle’s beak structure.  The new beak is not strong enough for the wild, but it does show what one can do with this … Continue reading →

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World’s First Gun Part 3D-Printed

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Fred

  A post in an AR15 fun forum describes the development, printing and testing of the 3D printing of the lower receiver of an automatic weapon.  Although the barrel would be a much more difficult fete, the lower receiver is … Continue reading →

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Custom 3D printer on a Robot Arm Printing a Chair!

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Fred

Now here is a large 3D printer!  Dirk Vander Kooij is a designer who uses a repurposed manufacturing robot as a 3D printer to extrude recycled plastic into designer furniture. For him, the visible resolution of the printer, i.e., the … Continue reading →

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Printing Urban Terrains

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Fred

Even if you’re not into gaming, perhaps you can appreciate the idea of printing urban plans and geographic forms.  See below for a Minecraft village 3D print from a group known as “post-apocalyptic research institute.” Their flickr stream has more … Continue reading →

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Now That’s a Rockin’ Printer

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Fred

TJ McCue at Forbes posted an article about One.61, a New Zealand company that does product development work, including a foray into 3D printing. Although we have not worked with anyone for product development, the UR CTLT does have connections with a few … Continue reading →

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3D Printing on CNN

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Fred

March 31 CNN segment with president of 3D Systems showing off a couple commercial systems somewhat similar to the Thing-O-Matic. Geek details:  the examples they show have “raft” printing which is stable for the printing process but leaves a step … Continue reading →

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