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Business
Formlabs Brings In Ex-Apple Hardware Chief Dan Riccio as Strategic Advisor, Reshuffles Its Board
Formlabs adds former Apple hardware boss Dan Riccio as an investor and strategic advisor while promoting co-founder Max Lobovsky to board chairman and CPO Dávid Lakatos to President, signaling a harder push into industrial 3D printing.
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Materials
One Ink, Two Behaviors: Pusan National University and ORNL 3D Print a Liquid Crystal Elastomer That Can Stretch or Shrink on Command
A Nature Communications study out of Pusan National University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory shows a direct-ink-written liquid crystal elastomer whose print speed and temperature alone decide whether it elongates or contracts when heated.
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Guides
A Maker's 3D-Printed PiShot Turns a Raspberry Pi Zero Into a Pocket Compact Camera
Hobbyist Irtaza2009 open-sourced PiShot, a 3D-printed compact-camera-style case built around a Pi Zero 2 W, Camera Module 3, and a rear ST7789 screen, with full design files and Python code posted to GitHub.
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Guides
A Maker Is Extruding Hollow Tubes With Compressed Air Instead of a Filament Core
Roetz-End creator Jan is replacing the solid core of printed tubing with a compressed-air stream, chasing hollow parts that are up to 90% air — but pressure swings and leaks are still winning.
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Business
Continuous Composites Sues Fibre Seek Over Ten Continuous-Fiber 3D Printing Patents
Continuous Composites has sued Anisoprint (d/b/a Fibre Seek) in Delaware federal court, alleging the FibreSeeker 3 printer infringes ten patents after three years of failed licensing talks.
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Industry
Inside the Oregon Machine Shop Where EOS SLS Printers Have Logged 800,000 Hours of Drone Flight
NW Rapid Manufacturing, an Oregon spinoff of drone-engine maker Northwest UAV, has quietly used three industrial EOS SLS systems to print end-use UAV parts now credited with over 800,000 flight hours for customers like Matternet and AeroVironment.
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Software
Backflip AI's New Foundation Model Cuts CAD Reverse-Engineering Cost From $1,500 to $10 a Part
Backflip AI's second-generation CAD foundation model turns scans and mesh files into fully parametric, feature-tree CAD in 1-5 minutes, dropping reverse-engineering cost from about $1,500 to roughly $10 a part.
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Printers
NUWC Keyport Becomes First Navy Warfare Center Approved to 3D Print Metal Parts for the Fleet
NUWC Division Keyport is now the first Navy Warfare Center with NAVSEA qualification for metal powder bed fusion, clearing an EOS M290 to print 17-4PH stainless steel tactical and shipboard parts after a seven-year effort.
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Materials
FAU Wins $800K EPA Grant to 3D Print Seaweed-Based Phosphorus Traps Against Toxic Algal Blooms
FAU landed an $800,475 EPA grant to 3D print lanthanum-modified sargassum structures that trap phosphorus in Lake Okeechobee — retrievable, regenerable lattices guided by machine learning, replacing one-shot powdered clays that settle into sediment and leach.
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Industry
From Disney Props to Drone Boats: Haddy 3D Prints the TF-179 Hull With Robotic Arms
St. Petersburg's Haddy — the shop that once printed Disney set pieces and designer furniture — has 3D printed the TF-179 Drone Boat's hull with rail-mounted robotic arms and integrated milling, joining the Ukraine-driven rush toward cheap, rapidly iterated attritable unmanned vessels.
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Software
MIT's ShiftLens Gives 3D Prints Switchable Surface Graphics — With Zero Electronics
MIT CSAIL's ShiftLens prints lenticular lens arrays over interlaced image strips so a cap twist, slider, or knob mechanically swaps a print's surface graphics — no sensors or batteries — with software that plans the optics and actuation automatically; headed to ACM UIST 2026 in Detroit.
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Printers
Prusa's INDX Conversion Kits Slip to Mid-August as Bondtech's 'Nozzlegate' Deepens
Prusa delays INDX conversion kits for the CORE One/+ to mid-August after Bondtech admitted its 'hardened' nozzles are nitrocarburized ordinary steel (~30-32 HRC vs the promised 55-60) that 100 g of abrasive filament wears through — Prusa offers refunds and free hardware while Bondtech quietly renamed the product and has no compensation plan.
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