Can a 3D-printed submarine drone survive a max depth dive in a flooded uranium mine? CPSdrone wanted to find out, and that required attaching it to a fiber optic tether for communication as well as adding a few upgrades to the drone itself. The latter meant replacing the original acrylic pipe endcaps with thicker versions.
Art collective MSCHF, known for WD-40 cologne and this ATM leaderboard machine, recently sold a microscopic handbag that is smaller than a grain of salt for $63,750 USD. This Louis Vuitton-branded bag is made of photopolymer resin and 3D-printed, yet has no connection to the French luxury fashion house.
This thumb-sized 3D printer may be small, but something far smaller was used to create the world’s smallest wineglass. Researchers at Stockholm’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology used a nanoscale 3D printer to create this microscopic wineglass using a new method capable of printing devices directly onto the top of an optical fiber as thin as a strand of human hair.
There’s this 3D-printed Iron Man helmet, and then these futuristic sunglasses created with a $200,000 Stratasys 3D printer by industrial designer John Mauriello, also known as Design Theory on YouTube. A total of four sunglasses were made, each one highlighting the four elements of matter: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire.
EddBuilds, a theme park enthusiast, created an amazing 3d-printed roller coaster, called Offride. More specifically, it is based on a Gerstlauer Infinity roller coaster, complete with a vertical lift and three inversions. The planning, building and putting the finishing touches on the build took around 1.5-years to complete.
3D-printing homes is one thing, NASA successfully 3D-printed a superalloy that is not only 1,000-times more durable than standard alloys, but can withstand temperatures up to 2,000-degrees Fahrenheit. It’s called GRX-810 and essentially an oxide dispersion strengthened alloy, which means miniature particles containing oxygen atoms spread throughout the alloy enhance its strength.
Sure, having a split keyboard that doubles as a tracking device is nice, but Formify is offering a custom 3D-printed computer mouse designed from a picture of your hand. Simply put, after submitting a picture of your hand, advanced machine learning algorithms are employed to analyze it, and then a customized design is generated.
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Here’s an inside look at NASA’s 3D-printed Mars habitat for a simulated mission expected to last just over a year. Four non-astronaut volunteers will begin the trial this summer to help better understand resource use on the Red Planet by living in a 1,700-square-foot Mars Dune Alpha habitat.
ICON’s Project Olympus may be years away, but NASA’s CHAPEA, a 3D-printed Mars habitat, will be open to media on April 11th before a crew enters for a yearlong mission. This will be the first of three planned mission in NASA’s CHAPEA (Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog) habitat and scheduled to begin in June when the volunteer crew, who are not astronauts, enter,