3D Printed Satellite Fuel Tank Dome

3D Printed Satellite Fuel Tank Dome

Satellite fuel tanks must be sufficiently lightweight and sufficiently strong to survive being launched into outer space, as well as survive missions that last decade(s) there. Despite titanium being an obvious choice of material for this, forging an object made from...
3D Printing Concrete Collaboration

3D Printing Concrete Collaboration

In November 2016, then technology start-up company Cazza Construction Technologies of California came onto the scene with the dream of building 3D-printed smart cities all over the world. In June 2017, their patented 3D printing construction robots, known as the X1...
3D Printing Vs Ice Camera Lens

3D Printing Vs Ice Camera Lens

In October 2018, French photographer Mathieu Stern created a camera lens made of ice from an iceberg in Iceland that had been purified over the last 10,000 years, claiming no other photographer had done this before. Stern modified his Sony camera to hold the ice lens,...
France’s First 3D-Printed Watch

France’s First 3D-Printed Watch

Throughout most of 2018, French “special metals” distributor STAINLESS and French watchmakers UTINAM Besançon collaborated to make France’s first automatic, mechanical 3D-printed watch. UTINAM Besançon was established by clock maker Phillippe Lebru in 1993. STAINLESS...