Sure, eating this 3D-printed cultured beef cut may be satisfying for some, but this 3D-printed soft robotic hand is special in its own way. University of Maryland’s creation is agile enough to play Super Mario Bros. on the original Nintendo Entertainment System and actually win.
There’s the DMG-0B prototype, and then Gem Boy Zero, a miniature 3D-printed Nintendo Game Boy-inspired console. Aside from the 3D-printed shell, it features a 1.44-inch display with a laser-cut acrylic cover, a micro-USB port for charging, and a Raspberry Pi Zero W at the heart of the tiny handheld.
Valve’s Steam Deck may be the more affordable option for gamers, or at least compared to full-fledged PCs, but what if you could create a handheld console with similar features? Cass Designs accomplished the latter by 3D-printing the case and using two Xbox 360 controllers connected to each other, while a Raspberry Pi 4 compute module is connected to a 7-inch touchscreen.
UCLA engineers have developed a new method to 3D print robots in a single step, or more specifically, their entire mechanical and electronic systems. Manufacturing these systems all at once required a new type of 3D printing process for metamaterials, resulting in a “meta-bot” capable of propulsion, movement, sensing and decision-making.
There are solar-powered container homes, and then BioHome3D, the world’s first 3d-printed house made entirely from bio-based recyclable materials. University of Maine engineers used wood waste from sawmills and “bio-resins” to print the floors, walls, and ceiling. The house was pieced together with the doors, windows, and electrical wiring.
There are 3d-printed, Wordle-solving robots, and then this innovative new nanoscale 3d printing material by Stanford engineers that could one day be used to protect the structures of satellites, drones and microelectronics. It is designed to print nanoscale, or structures that are a fraction of the width of a human hair, lattices that are both strong and light.
ICON and Lennar have started construction on a community of 100 3D-printed homes in Georgetown, Texas that combine robotics, software as well as advanced materials. Each Lennar home in the Wolf Ranch community is co-designed by architectural firm BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, and prices are expected to start from the mid-$400,000s.
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Even the smallest gaming PCs are still much larger than a soda can, that is unless…you’re talking about this one by a modder who goes by ‘Msystems’. The case itself was 3D-printed and comes equipped with an ASRock DeskMini x300 motherboard, along with an AMD Ryzen 7 5700G CPU, all running on a 75W power supply unit.
We have seen the future of batteries, and they’re mostly 3D printed solid-state batteries by startup Sakuu. These batteries would be equal or exceed the performance of current lithium-ion batteries, all wrapped in a small, 3 ampere-hour (Ah) cell, which enables them to deposit multiple materials onto a thin, single layer.
University of Central Floriday (UCF) researchers have developed a method that uses lunar regolith to 3D-print bricks that can be used in Artemis Moon base construction. This material is basically all of the loose dust, rocks and materials that cover the lunar surface, and the technique involves both 3D printing as well as binder jet technology (BJT).