InMotion want to be the first team to compete at Le Mans with an electric racing car. They aim to have a car ready for 2023, with a target to reduce charging times down to the time it takes to refuel a normal car. They will show off their fully
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Ford has led the way for innovation in the motoring industry since 1914. Their pilot plant in Cologne, Germany, develops new cars years before they go into production. With a small manufacturing line all their own, they develop models and the tools, jigs and fixtures that build them. Outsourcing the
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Morrison Tech, formally Morrison Institute of Technology, is one of the leading engineering and computer science educational institutions in Colorado. They recently dispatched of their last manual drafting table, and in doing so, created a fully digital learning environment. Part of this includes 3D printers. The institution’s president, Chris Scott,
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Nylon is stronger and more durable than PLA or ABS. It has high impact and abrasion resistance and very low friction. It’s flexible and bendy when printed thin, yet robust and solid when printed thick. Perhaps its best characteristic however is its impressive dimensional stability: it maintains shape when exposed
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UK-based Sylatech specialise in investment casting, waveguide systems and CNC machining. They design and manufacture precision-made custom parts through a range of processes, including lost wax. For investment casting, they manufacture prototype sample parts for customers, but using traditional tooling methods to do so is very expensive. Customers would typically
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Do you produce very large, bespoke models? If 3D printing is a viable manufacturing process for you, the Builder Extreme 2000 Pro could be your new favourite partner. It has an enormous (and very, very tall) build volume for fabricating large parts. Best of all, it’s easy to use and
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The Robo R2 is Robo’s current flagship 3D printer with the largest build volume in the range. It is positioned greatly toward education, with all Robo’s printers being completely integrated with K-12 STEM lessons from MyStemKits. In isolation and against others, the R2 is an excellent 3D printer with a variety
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Formlabs have taken the wrapping off a few new (and exciting) products last week: Elastic Resin, which is the softest and most pliable resin in their engineering range, and Digital Dentures, which is the first truly accessible 3D printing denture solution comprising two new materials called Denture Base Resin and
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Sports is an area where 3D printing has huge potential. From 3D printed gum shields for boxers and rugby players to 3D printed studs for footballers, there are a wide range of potential applications. Athletics 3D, a French company, specialise in making such equipment with one of their more recent
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NASA may not have done much to accelerate the progress of space exploration since Apollo 17, but there are private companies doing their bit to hop us onto the next stage – Mars. Everyone’s a way off it yet, but in the next half decade it’s thought we’ll all know
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