Making miniscule objects is hard ... the idea behind a 3D printing technique called implosion fabrication. The method can be used to produce a variety of shapes, from tiny hollow spheres ...

Think 3D printers are just for making Yoda heads and Starship Enterprise replicas? From working tweezers to iPhone cases, we printed some genuinely useful objects easily. You can too. Since 2004 ...

The new fast 3D printing technique developed by ... and at what dose.” Printing tiny, high-precision objects in a matter of seconds At the moment, the printer can create structures of up to ...

which involves judiciously mixing powdered milk with water to get the right consistency for making 3D objects at lower temperatures. The researchers tested it out by successfully printing a tiny ...

Researchers from the EPFL have developed a new high-precision 3D printing process that allows the printing of very small, soft objects. The key feature of the new 3D printing method is that the ...

In all of the LittleArm versions the main mechanical components are 3D printed ... tips also feature a simple “cutout” that allow it more easily grasp horizontal objects.

A 3D-printing ... tags into objects. The process could be used to create tags with the convenience of QR codes without the unsightly appearance, as well as to turn simple objects into videogame ...

An interesting research project out of MIT shows that it’s possible to embed machine-readable labels into 3D printed objects using ... possibilities open up. One simple proof of concept is ...

with small details completely lost in the scan. When it works, though, it's exhilarating to be able to scan and object and then print it, as if the AiO were a (blurry) 3D photocopier ...

Some day, it may be possible for tiny ... just print to achieve various functions." A paper on the research was published this Wednesday in the journal Nature. Some of the 3D-printed objects ...

When the inside of that object is ... a relatively simple two-dimensional tag into a complex 3D feature comprising hundreds of tiny elements dispersed within the printed component, we are able ...