Have you ever been tempted by those metal 3D printing services? [Carter Hurd] has, and puts them to the test with a wristwatch. (Video, embedded below.) It’s fair to say that am ...

It all starts off with a custom bronze metal clay, made up of 100 g bronze powder, 0.17 g methyl cellulose, 0.33 g xanthan gum, and 9 g water. The water is fine-tuned to get the right consistency ...

Few fields have seen as much development in one year as that of 3D printing using virtually any material. Undoubtedly, the most dramatic and challenging has been printing with metal.

Few things are more hardcore than 3D-printing metal. We can think of just two off the top of our head: Pressure cookers and cave diving. That’s about it. The point is, 3D-printing metal is ...

A mechanic could 3D print the part needed to fix your car while you wait at the shop. THE NEXT LEVEL. We can now 3D print pretty much anything from seemingly any material. Want to print a house ...

While 3-D printing has been around for decades, it has remained largely in the domain of hobbyists and designers producing one-off prototypes. And printing objects with anything other than ...

Liquid metal printing (LMP) utilizes a bed of 100-micron glass beads to create a structure into which molten aluminum is deposited — a process not entirely dissimilar from injection molding.

Desktop Metal's founder and CEO Ric Fulop told Forbes that the company has received hundreds of orders for its system, which has an appeal similar to that of plastic 3D-printers - it doesn't ...

Metal 3D printing is of particular interest to industries like aerospace, where the ability to manufacture low-volume, complicated parts enables the creation of better airplanes and rockets. About ...

Computing and printer giant HP wants you to think about metal. Today the company announced the Metal Jet printer, an industrial-scale 3-D printer that builds items not of plastic but of steel.