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Your future home might be framed with printed plastic

The plastic bottle you just tossed in the recycling bin could provide structural support for your future house. MIT engineers ...
New Atlas

Hybrid 3D printing tech produces plastic-metal items

While it's possible to 3D-print plastic or metal items, printing single items made of both materials is still quite difficult. Scientists have developed a new method of doing so, however, that could ...
Hackaday

Need A Curved Plastic Mesh? Print Flat, Curve Later

Need a plastic mesh in a custom pattern? 3D print it, no problem. But what if one needs a curved plastic mesh? That’s ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Plastic-Printing Pen Lets You Draw In 3D

Yesterday, start-up company Wobble Works was looking for $30,000 to help fund the manufacture of a pen that lets you draw in three dimensions using malleable melted plastic. In just a day, the company ...
Business Insider

A startup is using recycled plastic to 3D print prefab tiny homes with prices starting at $25,000 — see inside

Los Angeles-based startup Azure is using recycled plastic to 3D print prefab homes. The startup is now selling several models ranging from a backyard studio to a two-bedroom ADU. Azure says it can ...
Plastics Today

Hybrid Technique Puts Metal-Plastic 3D Printing on Parallel Tracks

A 3D-printing technique with dual nozzles enables a new form of metal-plastic hybrid printing. Applications include 3D-printed electronic components for healthcare applications, according to ...
New Atlas

Shapeways introduces a soft plastic for 3D printing

Shapeways, one of the biggest names in 3D printing, is adding a new squishy plastic material called Elasto Plastics to its available printing options. This new material offers some interesting ...
BGR

Researchers Found A Way To 3D Print Plastic That's Cheap, Stretchable, And Recyclable

Researchers developed a special 3D-printed plastic that is cheap and flexible. The plastic is made up of a substance they call thermoplastic elastomer. This elastomer is made up of several different ...
ExtremeTech

The first all-plastic 3D-printed gun will be available to download in 'two weeks'

Cody Wilson, the founder of Defense Distributed, says he is just two weeks away from 3D printing an entire handgun, out of ABS plastic. Once Wilson has printed the gun and ensured that it works, the ...
Forbes

3D Printing Is Ready To Tackle Plastic Body Implants

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carolyn Schwaar is a tech journalist and editor at All3DP Magazine. This article is more than 3 years old. 3D-printed skull ...
Science Daily

The best of both worlds: A new take on metal-plastic hybrid 3D printing

Current 3D printers employ either plastic or metal only, and the conventional method to coat 3D plastic structures with metal is not environment-friendly and yields poor results. Now, scientists have ...