3D printing Archives

Ultrasound is focused to create a hologram in the shape of a virtual sphere (Bristol Interaction and Graphics group, University of Bristol, © 2014)

Holograms You Can Touch and Feel

January 23, 2024January 24, 2024 Science Connected3D printing, augmented reality, holograms, scientific research, video games

Holograms that you can touch are being developed by scientists at the University of Bristol. This science fiction feat will soon be reality.

Engineering

How Oreos Could Impact 3D Printing

April 25, 2022April 20, 2022 Science Connected3D printing, food science

Have you ever wondered why, when you separate an Oreo, the filling usually sticks to one side? The reason might be the future of 3D printing.

Engineering New Technologies

Crowdfunded 3D-Printed Robotic Hand Is a Winner

September 15, 2015April 28, 2022 Science Connected3D printing, robotics

3-D print a robotic prosthetic hand with open-source materials from the makers of the Dextrus. Affordable ready-made version coming next .

An array of objects decorated using Columbia Engineering Professor Changxi Zheng's new method -- computational hydrographic printing -- that physically aligns a surface color texture onto a 3D printed surface with a precision never before attained. (Changxi Zheng, Columbia Engineering)

Engineering New Technologies

3D Printing, Now with Surface Decorations

May 26, 2015February 22, 2023 Science Connected3D printing

Science and art go together beautifully. It just got a lot easier and cheaper to add complex surface art to your 3D printing creations. Researchers at Columbia Engineering and Zhejiang University in China have developed a technique that enables more precise 3D printing than ever before. 3D Printing Meets Hydrographic Printing Engineers often find ways to make our lives healthier, safer, and easier to clean. Sometimes, they make things easier to view, or in this case, more visually appealing. The new technique is based on hydrographic printing, which is an…