Unlike this edible drone, Columbia University engineers have figured out how to 3D print cheesecake using edible inks. It consisted of seven main ingredients: graham cracker, peanut butter, Nutella, banana puree, strawberry jam, cherry drizzle, and frosting.
Relativity Space has successfully launched Terran 1, the world’s first 3D-printed rocket, from Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The rocket failed to reach orbit after its second stage suffered an anomaly shortly after stage separation and engine ignition, leading to shutdown.
This fully 3D-printed shredder can easily devour a head of lettuce, but needs to avoid plastic objects. It was modeled after its real-life counterpart, the ones that can crush full-sized cars, but shrinks it down enough to be powered by a brushed 775 DC motor, paired with a gearbox to step down its output for torque.
The ANYCUBIC Photon Mono 4K Resin 3D Printer lets you create things with more detail than the competition, and it’s being offered for just $194.99 shipped, today only, originally $379.99. Its large 132mm x 80mm x 165mm printing size makes it easy to create various objects, including a Wordle-solving robot. Product page.
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While not as strange as this orange pinhole camera, a photographer who goes by ‘Elecoolbeenz’ online did manage to 3D print a functional film camera without using any existing parts. Put simply, the shutter is a two-way magnetically locking rotary sector shutter with a speed of around 1/100s, while the rest of the parts (lens element, magnets, leatherette, epoxy, and screws) only cost around $25 total.
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You won’t be able to recreate Google’s Project Starline, but researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research and Heidelberg University have developed a machine that can 3D print with ultrasonic holograms, or sound waves. This touchless 3D printing method can be used to form any shape desired using those sound waves.
Scientists have used 3D printing to make chocolate more crackly, and now, researchers at EPFL’s Soft Materials Laboratory managed to fabricate bone-like composites with bacteria-loaded ink. More specifically, a 3D printable ink containing Sporosarcina pasteurii, which is a bacterium that triggers a mineralization process when exposed to a urea-containing solution, resulting in calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
Wilson Sporting Goods Co. unveiled the world’s first airless prototype basketball made with 3d-printing technologies. It was used by Houston Rockets’ player Kenyon Martin Jr. during the first round of the AT&T Slam Dunk Contest this past Saturday night. Not just a show piece, it nearly meets the performance specifications of a regulation NBA basketball, including its weight, size and rebound (bounce).
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One Nintendo fan spent hours creating a custom The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild Sheikah Slate light switch cover that would not look out of place in a live-action movie based on the game. This creation may look CG rendered at first, but it was actually 3D printed and then hand painted.
It’s no self-healing hydrogel, but this massive 3D-printed excavator actually works, and can be remote-controlled. Inventor Ivan Miranda created this big build with the help of his own LEGO Technic-style, 3D-printed bricks that can be stacked together like you would the toy sets.