The article compares both methods and explains how material, design, and order size affect the best choice. What is the real difference between screen printing and direct-to-film printing? That ...

Welding is typically used to join two parts together, whether those parts be metal or plastic. There are various styles of welding, but we won’t go into those here. Casting is the act of pouring a ...

High-speed 3D printing has just gotten a lot faster. Researchers from Tsinghua University in China have developed a new high-speed printing technology capable of creating complex millimeter-scale ...

A team of University of Minnesota scientists has developed a futuristic method of 3D printing. Michael McAlpine, associate professor of mechanical engineering at the University, and his lab created a ...

While 3D printing has mostly involved plastic so far, future materials, including one harder than steel, could make a huge ...

Over the past years, additive manufacturing (AM) has become a common tool for hackers and makers, with first FDM and now SLA 3D printers becoming affordable for the masses. While these machines are ...

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Researchers have pioneered a breakthrough method to rapidly 3-D print fully functional electronic circuits. Researchers at the University of Nottingham have pioneered a breakthrough method to rapidly ...

Two researchers at Carnegie Mellon University’s College of Engineering have come up with a new method of fabricating battery electrodes using Aerosol Jet 3D printing. The Aerosol Jet system also ...