3d printers. Review of achievements for 2012
Molecules and airplanes, weapons and blood vessels, artificial limbs and integrated circuits, food and buildings, a cure for cancer, an ear, a beak and a rocket engine, all this was printed in 2012 on 3d printers.
This article is a partial translation of 3D Printing in 2012: Year In Review .
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Pictures (70 pieces) are clickable - reference to the source.
3D Systems completed the acquisition of Z Corp and Vidar for $ 135.5 million in cash.
Makerbot Announces Replicator.
“3D Systems Announces Cube 3D at CES2012.
Essential Dynamics presented to the public a 3d food printer and announced that they are taking orders for such printers.
Pirate Bay has opened a new section with 3d models for free download and printing on 3d printers.
"Factory on wheels."
For a whole month, Alex Hornstein and Bilal Ghalib traveled around America with four 3d printers in the trunk. They started a project Pocket Factory (pocket factory) in order to develop and sell products made on cheap 3d printers.
Fifteen-year-old Laura played the violin printed on a 3d printer on CNN.
This is one of three violins of a similar pattern, but only this one is fully equipped with strings. Laura - South West Music School student made a premiere performance on the CNN news channel. This amazing presentation perfectly illustrates the potential of 3d printing, with which you can recreate almost any thing.
An 83-year-old woman received a prosthesis printed on a 3d printer.
Belgian and German scientists successfully implanted a lower jaw printed on a 3d printer.
Scientists have created a dinosaur robot using a 3d printer.
For the first time in 150 years, paleontologists have become able to test hypotheses about how dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals moved and interacted with the environment.
3d printer printed human tissue for testing drugs.
The San Diego bioprinting company used 3d bioprinting to create a variety of body tissues from human cells.
The world's largest museum will be digital thanks to 3d scanners and 3d printers.
The world's largest museum and Smithsonian Research Institute created a reproduction of the statue of Thomas Jefferson using a high-tech scanner and 3d printer.
General Electric Co invests in manual laboratories for ordinary people.
General Electric Co launched the project GE Garages, manufacturing craft centers equipped with laser cutters, 3d printers, casting molds. Visitors will learn the basics of prototyping and production.
Sensation: High-speed 3d printer with nano-precision.
The Vienna University of Technology announced a major breakthrough in the field of 3d printing technologies: it is now possible to print 3-dimensional objects with incredible detail using “two-photon lithography”.
7000 details printed on 3d printer for The Pirates movie! In an Adventure with Scientists!
The MIT team used nano-robots to reproduce coarse 3d objects.
MIT developers from the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) demonstrated “smart sand”, nano-format robots equipped with the simplest processors.
Stratasys and Objet agreed to the merger. The total cost of 1.4 billion dollars.
Man vs 3d printer.
The battle between a person and a 3d printer: create an object with your own hand or draw it on a computer and print it on a 3d printer?
Fans print circuit boards on a 3d printer.
Fujitsu proposed technology to reduce design time by 90%.
The US government launched a 60 million education and research program - a new 3d printing institute.
Printing spare parts for military equipment - F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
"Smart bandage."
University of Illinois researchers have developed a healing wound bandage.
DreamVendor - an interactive 3D printing station in Virginia Tech.
Now with the help of her students can print prototypes of their projects. The station works like any other vending machine on the street.
DARPA creates new technologies through crowdsourcing .
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced it was investing $ 3.5 million in TechShop as part of DARPA’s new Adaptive Vehicle Make project to “create a factory for rapid design and reconfiguration of manufacturing capabilities to support the production of a wide range of military equipment”.
The world's first floating humanoid robot, printed on a 3d printer.
Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a robot that can reproduce the movement of a swimmer to measure water resistance. This robot is named
SWUMANOID (Swimming Humanoid) and this is the first robot created exclusively for swimming.
The first 3d printer collected by children.
The School in Geldermalsen, NL set up challenging projects for children to teach them how to handle challenges. One of the tasks was to assemble an open source 3D printer.
Startup Shapeways raised $ 6.2 million in investment.
Users upload files via the Internet and the company prints them on 3d printers from various materials. By June 2012, Shapeways had printed and sold over a million goods.
Record: Objet broke the barrier of 100 materials.
Objet expanded the range of materials to 107, including 39 new “digital materials” for Objet Connex Multi-Material 3D Printing Systems
"Printing molecules."
Personal medicine using a 3d molecular printer appeared.
Lee Cronin, a professor of chemistry at the University of Glasgow, used a 3d printer to create reagents directly in a 3d reaction matrix to initiate chemical reactions.
Researchers have developed a 3d printer for printing 3d silicon micro and nanostructures.
Researchers at KTH Microsystem Technology have demonstrated a new 3d technology for printing silicon micro and nanostructures.
Penn researchers created a vascular network in living tissues using a 3D printer RepRap and sugar.
Thus, the task of creating a 3d structure of blood vessels was solved.
Researchers have created a new method of manufacturing 3d aluminum composite parts.
Researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK have developed a process based on selective laser melting (Selective Laser Melting) for the production of 3d aluminum composite parts from low-cost metal powder.
Chinese scientists used a 3d printer to print the ear.
Dr. Yang and his team used a 3d scanner to scan a patient’s ear and sent the data to a 3d printer. An hour later the work was completed.
Airbus are working on the concept of an aircraft built using a giant 3D printer.
The aircraft is planned to be built by 2050.
3d printing will help create the fastest car in the world.
The first AR-15 weapon printed on a 3d printer successfully passed test shooting.
The creator and tester, the user with the pseudonym "HaveBlue" laid out the part in open access on Thingiverse.
3d printing gave the magic hands to Emma for two years.
Two-year-old Emma was born with a serious illness. The researchers used the Stratasys Dimension 3D Printer to print out a plastic WREX prototype, which Emma now wears at home, in preparatory class, and during treatment.
An Israeli student has built the world's largest 3d printer printing ceramics.
Russia is building the world's largest network of FabLab`s .
The national symbol of America - bald eagle (bald eagle) was printed out the beak.
Thiel Foundation Announces Grant for 3D Meat Printing Technology.
Together with Breakout Labs, they plan to apply the latest developments in the field of tissue creation for an edible prototype of meat that can become a humane and sustainable source of animal proteins for consumers from around the world.
The Wiki Weapon Project raises funds through crowdfunding to develop open source weapons that can be printed on a 3d printer.
A group of young volunteers, engineers and designers from Arkansas and Texas, apply 3d printing in an unprecedented project. A group called Defense Distributed is developing a plastic civilian self-defense system, Wiki Weapon.
“The first racing car printed on a 3d printer reached a speed of 140 km / h.
Speed ​​dialing from 0 to 100 km / h - in 4 seconds.
Giant laser 3d printer modified local production.
This printer is capable of creating complex forms of titanium, nickel, steel, chromium, and so on. The size of the printer with a small car.
For the first time, wheelchairs printed on a 3d printer were used at the Paralympic Games .
8 players (4 men and 4 women) played basketball at the summer Paralympic Games in the UK.
Wheelchairs were created taking into account the individual parameters of the players.
The inventor, Kai Parthy, developed a fiber for RepRap , with which you can print "wood".
LAYWOO-D3 fiber is a composite of wood and polymer containing recycled wood and harmless plastic.
Recreated the creature of the ancient sea.
American scientists and German specialists reconstructed the mollusk "Protobalanus spinicoronatus", which lived 390 million years ago.
Nano-engineers are capable of printing three-dimensional microstructures in seconds.
Leather products made in the laboratory will go on sale in the next 5 years.
According to the forecast of biopriringovoy company Modern Meadow in the next five years, leather products: bags, belts, shoes, etc., created in laboratories, will be sold in supermarkets. The market is estimated at 2.5 trillion dollars.
Formlabs announces Form 1 "consumer" 3d printer.
Funding attracted by KickStarter . The initial request was $ 100,000, and attracted 3 million.
Attempt to protect things from copying.
Shapeways opens the world's largest 3d printing factory.
The company plans to return production to New York with the help of the “Factory of the Future”.
The British government is investing 7 million euros in 3d printing technology.
Science Minister David Willetts: “We believe that new investments will help British companies take the necessary step to create new markets and gain a competitive advantage.”
Rocket engine printed on 3d printer.
How often do you think about printing your own rocket engine?
Printed Aston Martin for James Bond.
In Japan, opened the world's first 3d photo stand.
Liver printed from stem cells.
Scottish scientists create liver tissue.
LulzBot: 3d printer will be sent to Mars.
3D Systems files a lawsuit against Formlabs and Kickstarter.
The University of Warwick created an inexpensive conductive plastic.
Now the creation of sensors will be available to all owners of 3d printers.
The rifle with the printed spare part broke after 6 shots.
Drag-and-Drop DNA: This 3d printer prints cancer cure.
Researchers from Parabon NanoLabs began to evaluate a cure for a deadly brain tumor of glioblastoma .
The US Congressman urges to extend the ban on 3d printing of weapons.
The main danger, according to the congressman, is that this weapon cannot be detected by a metal detector.
Opened the first 3d store in the Netherlands.
The first 3d print shop in the Netherlands where a customer can come and talk to the staff.
In France, opened the first 3d store Protoshop.
"Our customers are mostly from the academic environment, from the design or from the technical design bureau." Says the store manager.
Software for bioprinting.
Organovo, the creator and manufacturer of human tissues printed on a 3d printer, in collaboration with researchers from Autodesk, are developing 3d bioprinting software.
Top 100 sites in the field of 3d printing in 2012.
This article is a partial translation of 3D Printing in 2012: Year In Review .
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Pictures (70 pieces) are clickable - reference to the source.
January
3D Systems completed the acquisition of Z Corp and Vidar for $ 135.5 million in cash.
Makerbot Announces Replicator.
“3D Systems Announces Cube 3D at CES2012.
Essential Dynamics presented to the public a 3d food printer and announced that they are taking orders for such printers.
Pirate Bay has opened a new section with 3d models for free download and printing on 3d printers.
"Factory on wheels."
For a whole month, Alex Hornstein and Bilal Ghalib traveled around America with four 3d printers in the trunk. They started a project Pocket Factory (pocket factory) in order to develop and sell products made on cheap 3d printers.
February
Fifteen-year-old Laura played the violin printed on a 3d printer on CNN.
This is one of three violins of a similar pattern, but only this one is fully equipped with strings. Laura - South West Music School student made a premiere performance on the CNN news channel. This amazing presentation perfectly illustrates the potential of 3d printing, with which you can recreate almost any thing.
An 83-year-old woman received a prosthesis printed on a 3d printer.
Belgian and German scientists successfully implanted a lower jaw printed on a 3d printer.
Scientists have created a dinosaur robot using a 3d printer.
For the first time in 150 years, paleontologists have become able to test hypotheses about how dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals moved and interacted with the environment.
3d printer printed human tissue for testing drugs.
The San Diego bioprinting company used 3d bioprinting to create a variety of body tissues from human cells.
The world's largest museum will be digital thanks to 3d scanners and 3d printers.
The world's largest museum and Smithsonian Research Institute created a reproduction of the statue of Thomas Jefferson using a high-tech scanner and 3d printer.
March
General Electric Co invests in manual laboratories for ordinary people.
General Electric Co launched the project GE Garages, manufacturing craft centers equipped with laser cutters, 3d printers, casting molds. Visitors will learn the basics of prototyping and production.
Sensation: High-speed 3d printer with nano-precision.
The Vienna University of Technology announced a major breakthrough in the field of 3d printing technologies: it is now possible to print 3-dimensional objects with incredible detail using “two-photon lithography”.
7000 details printed on 3d printer for The Pirates movie! In an Adventure with Scientists!
April
The MIT team used nano-robots to reproduce coarse 3d objects.
MIT developers from the Distributed Robotics Laboratory (DRL) demonstrated “smart sand”, nano-format robots equipped with the simplest processors.
Stratasys and Objet agreed to the merger. The total cost of 1.4 billion dollars.
Man vs 3d printer.
The battle between a person and a 3d printer: create an object with your own hand or draw it on a computer and print it on a 3d printer?
Fans print circuit boards on a 3d printer.
May
Fujitsu proposed technology to reduce design time by 90%.
The US government launched a 60 million education and research program - a new 3d printing institute.
Printing spare parts for military equipment - F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
"Smart bandage."
University of Illinois researchers have developed a healing wound bandage.
DreamVendor - an interactive 3D printing station in Virginia Tech.
Now with the help of her students can print prototypes of their projects. The station works like any other vending machine on the street.
DARPA creates new technologies through crowdsourcing .
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced it was investing $ 3.5 million in TechShop as part of DARPA’s new Adaptive Vehicle Make project to “create a factory for rapid design and reconfiguration of manufacturing capabilities to support the production of a wide range of military equipment”.
June
The world's first floating humanoid robot, printed on a 3d printer.
Researchers at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a robot that can reproduce the movement of a swimmer to measure water resistance. This robot is named
SWUMANOID (Swimming Humanoid) and this is the first robot created exclusively for swimming.
The first 3d printer collected by children.
The School in Geldermalsen, NL set up challenging projects for children to teach them how to handle challenges. One of the tasks was to assemble an open source 3D printer.
Startup Shapeways raised $ 6.2 million in investment.
Users upload files via the Internet and the company prints them on 3d printers from various materials. By June 2012, Shapeways had printed and sold over a million goods.
Record: Objet broke the barrier of 100 materials.
Objet expanded the range of materials to 107, including 39 new “digital materials” for Objet Connex Multi-Material 3D Printing Systems
"Printing molecules."
Personal medicine using a 3d molecular printer appeared.
Lee Cronin, a professor of chemistry at the University of Glasgow, used a 3d printer to create reagents directly in a 3d reaction matrix to initiate chemical reactions.
Researchers have developed a 3d printer for printing 3d silicon micro and nanostructures.
Researchers at KTH Microsystem Technology have demonstrated a new 3d technology for printing silicon micro and nanostructures.
July
Penn researchers created a vascular network in living tissues using a 3D printer RepRap and sugar.
Thus, the task of creating a 3d structure of blood vessels was solved.
Researchers have created a new method of manufacturing 3d aluminum composite parts.
Researchers at the University of Exeter in the UK have developed a process based on selective laser melting (Selective Laser Melting) for the production of 3d aluminum composite parts from low-cost metal powder.
Chinese scientists used a 3d printer to print the ear.
Dr. Yang and his team used a 3d scanner to scan a patient’s ear and sent the data to a 3d printer. An hour later the work was completed.
Airbus are working on the concept of an aircraft built using a giant 3D printer.
The aircraft is planned to be built by 2050.
3d printing will help create the fastest car in the world.
The first AR-15 weapon printed on a 3d printer successfully passed test shooting.
The creator and tester, the user with the pseudonym "HaveBlue" laid out the part in open access on Thingiverse.
August
3d printing gave the magic hands to Emma for two years.
Two-year-old Emma was born with a serious illness. The researchers used the Stratasys Dimension 3D Printer to print out a plastic WREX prototype, which Emma now wears at home, in preparatory class, and during treatment.
An Israeli student has built the world's largest 3d printer printing ceramics.
Russia is building the world's largest network of FabLab`s .
The national symbol of America - bald eagle (bald eagle) was printed out the beak.
Thiel Foundation Announces Grant for 3D Meat Printing Technology.
Together with Breakout Labs, they plan to apply the latest developments in the field of tissue creation for an edible prototype of meat that can become a humane and sustainable source of animal proteins for consumers from around the world.
The Wiki Weapon Project raises funds through crowdfunding to develop open source weapons that can be printed on a 3d printer.
A group of young volunteers, engineers and designers from Arkansas and Texas, apply 3d printing in an unprecedented project. A group called Defense Distributed is developing a plastic civilian self-defense system, Wiki Weapon.
“The first racing car printed on a 3d printer reached a speed of 140 km / h.
Speed ​​dialing from 0 to 100 km / h - in 4 seconds.
Giant laser 3d printer modified local production.
This printer is capable of creating complex forms of titanium, nickel, steel, chromium, and so on. The size of the printer with a small car.
September
For the first time, wheelchairs printed on a 3d printer were used at the Paralympic Games .
8 players (4 men and 4 women) played basketball at the summer Paralympic Games in the UK.
Wheelchairs were created taking into account the individual parameters of the players.
The inventor, Kai Parthy, developed a fiber for RepRap , with which you can print "wood".
LAYWOO-D3 fiber is a composite of wood and polymer containing recycled wood and harmless plastic.
Recreated the creature of the ancient sea.
American scientists and German specialists reconstructed the mollusk "Protobalanus spinicoronatus", which lived 390 million years ago.
Nano-engineers are capable of printing three-dimensional microstructures in seconds.
Leather products made in the laboratory will go on sale in the next 5 years.
According to the forecast of biopriringovoy company Modern Meadow in the next five years, leather products: bags, belts, shoes, etc., created in laboratories, will be sold in supermarkets. The market is estimated at 2.5 trillion dollars.
Formlabs announces Form 1 "consumer" 3d printer.
Funding attracted by KickStarter . The initial request was $ 100,000, and attracted 3 million.
October
Attempt to protect things from copying.
Shapeways opens the world's largest 3d printing factory.
The company plans to return production to New York with the help of the “Factory of the Future”.
The British government is investing 7 million euros in 3d printing technology.
Science Minister David Willetts: “We believe that new investments will help British companies take the necessary step to create new markets and gain a competitive advantage.”
Rocket engine printed on 3d printer.
How often do you think about printing your own rocket engine?
November
Printed Aston Martin for James Bond.
In Japan, opened the world's first 3d photo stand.
Liver printed from stem cells.
Scottish scientists create liver tissue.
LulzBot: 3d printer will be sent to Mars.
3D Systems files a lawsuit against Formlabs and Kickstarter.
The University of Warwick created an inexpensive conductive plastic.
Now the creation of sensors will be available to all owners of 3d printers.
December
The rifle with the printed spare part broke after 6 shots.
Drag-and-Drop DNA: This 3d printer prints cancer cure.
Researchers from Parabon NanoLabs began to evaluate a cure for a deadly brain tumor of glioblastoma .
The US Congressman urges to extend the ban on 3d printing of weapons.
The main danger, according to the congressman, is that this weapon cannot be detected by a metal detector.Opened the first 3d store in the Netherlands.
The first 3d print shop in the Netherlands where a customer can come and talk to the staff.
In France, opened the first 3d store Protoshop.
"Our customers are mostly from the academic environment, from the design or from the technical design bureau." Says the store manager.
Software for bioprinting.
Organovo, the creator and manufacturer of human tissues printed on a 3d printer, in collaboration with researchers from Autodesk, are developing 3d bioprinting software.
Top 100 sites in the field of 3d printing in 2012.
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