3D printing

Recent improvements in technology has brought about a change in society and how some problems that seemed out of reach, may not be impossible anymore. One such improvement would be through the introduction of the 3D printer. Through the advancement of 3D printing technology, the medical world has changed significantly, especially with respect to medical procedures and therapy. Throughout the centuries, medicinal studies have steadily advanced from bleeding out from a torn off limb or gaping hole…

The thought of 3D printers being used in everyday life can seem as futuristic as flying cars or teleportation. However, with advancements with these printers and them becoming more affordable and accessible, it won’t be long before every household has one. Remember how crazy it was when we could video chat on our cell phones for the first time? Now it seems perfectly normal. News articles have frightened people about the problems that could arise from the use of 3D printers, but the benefits are…

Next is 3D printing. 3D printing makes it easier for new brands to get into the shoe market. It reduces the initial startup costs by allowing the designer to make a 3D printed model of a sole with cheap materials rather than creating a sole with a shoe making machine. Typically it costs a thousand dollars to make one sole, and then all the other shoe sizes need to be created too, all before production has even started (Bailey, 2013). With 3D printing, a sole can be created at a low cost to…

largest impact on the economy. 3D printers are going to be “that piece of technology” to change and mold the way to the future. The printers are already starting to impact the way facilities are able to produce their products. One of the largest benefits of facilities using the 3D printers is, there is no to minimal waste of the material. By not using extra material and having to reprocess it saves money for the company thus reducing the cost for the consumer for the product. 3D printers are not…

THE BEST 3D PRINTERS UNDER $1000 BY NAME: So, if you 're not already salivating over the prospects of owning a 3D printer, you will be in a minute. With all the capabilities they posses, you 'd never expect one of these machines to be priced within reach of the "average" consumer, but in fact, many are. While there are high-end printers, mostly used by major companies, that could easily run you 10 or 20 thousand dollars, there are numerous models available for less than one thousand. Here are…

The two main types of 3D printing are FDM and SLA. FDM stands for Fused Deposition Modeling, in FDM a thermoplastic resin, usually in the form of a wire (Figure 7), is fed through a hot extruder in turn heating the plastic allowing it to become formable. As the plastic is heated…

however, manual editing had to be done of the each single CT scans slices due to the presence of artifacts. The resulting clean images were rendering into a 3D image (Lynnerup et al., 1997). The scans revealed fragmentation of the cranial vault and facial skeleton, with the mandible approximately intact. A stereolithographic model (form of 3D printing) was produced which showed “post-mortem diagenetic changes of the mandible, such as extremely brittle cortical bone tissue, especially at the…

Throughout time the world has evolved. It has constantly changed, from our great ancestors discovering fire for the first time to the world’s first commercial jet pack and everything in between. As days go by technology continues to advance and thus keeps the world progressing, “By virtue of the intensive infiltration of digital devices into our daily lives, we have radically altered how we communicate with one another and with our entire social network at once” (Topol), Eric emphasizes the…

The term entrepreneurial opportunity would usually presume a profit-motivated event. The adjective entrepreneurial emphasises that the profits are chased through creating a new good and presenting it to the market (Whetten, 1989). Other scholars define the entrepreneurial opportunity as situation that provokes the discovery of new goods, services, production technologies and organizing methods that are able to obtain some economic value in the future (Shane and Venkataraman, 2000). The…

learning more innovating for students and teaching more opportunistic for teachers. Classroom integration of emerging technologies like 3D printing, SMART boards, and mobile technology have changed the teaching and learning processes in ways that are beneficial for students and teachers in elementary and secondary education. 3D Printing Originally developed in the 1980s, 3D printers were first used mainly to…