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Printers
Prusa's INDX Multi-Material System Starts Shipping: 30x Less Waste Than Rivals
Bondtech has begun shipping Prusa's INDX Founder's Edition toolchanger upgrade, which Prusa says cuts multi-color purge waste roughly 30x versus rival systems while supporting eight tools and a CMYKW+RGB workflow.
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Software
Snapmaker's U1 Firmware Adds Top Cover Support and Smarter Auto-Refill
Snapmaker's V1.5.0/V1.5.1 firmware brings official Top Cover support, mixed-color auto-refill, AI spaghetti-detection uploads, and a first-layer bug fix to the U1 Toolchanger.
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Industry
Startup 3D Prints a Silicon Carbide Nuclear Reactor Core Aimed at AI Data Centers
Florida startup AMPERA unveiled a basketball-sized, fully 3D-printed silicon carbide thorium reactor core with a gyroid lattice, betting additive manufacturing can solve nuclear power's AI-era supply crunch.
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Business
Beehive Industries Buys Two Cincinnati Machine Shops to Scale 3D-Printed Jet Engines
Beehive Industries acquired Able Tool and its subsidiary Planet Products near Cincinnati, pairing high-volume machining with Knoxville metal AM to push its Frenzy engine toward 8,000+ units a year.
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Materials
A Polyester That Disappears: BellaSeno's 3D-Printed Breast Scaffolds Reach 30 Patients
BellaSeno says 30 Australian women have now received restorative breast surgery using 3D-printed, medical-grade polycaprolactone scaffolds that seed with the patient's own fat, then dissolve over one to two years.
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Guides
ASTM's Free Certification Guide Tries to End the Chaos of Qualifying 3D-Printed Defense Parts
ASTM's AM Center of Excellence, working with the UK MOD via Project TAMPA, has published a free, criticality-based strategic guide for certifying additively manufactured parts across air, land and maritime defense domains.
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Software
Makr3D Opens Beta of an AI-Assisted Print Fulfillment Platform for Sellers Who Don't Own Printers
Yorkshire3D's new Makr3D beta lets creators and Etsy/Shopify sellers offload printing, QC, packing and shipping to a 100-printer Huddersfield farm, with an AI 'Print Intelligence' inspector that measures models and recommends settings before production.
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Industry
Navy Tests 3D-Printed Composite Patches to Halve F/A-18 Super Hornet Repair Times
The Navy is testing 3D-printed composite patches that could cut select F/A-18 Super Hornet repair times by roughly half and let crews fix cracked panels on-site, with a flight test on an operational jet slated for summer 2026.
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Business
Australia Puts AUD $3.25M on the Table to Get Small Manufacturers Into 3D Printing
Australia's AMCRC opened its STARTER program on July 1, 2026 — a AUD $3.25M pool of dollar-for-dollar matched grants (AUD $20k–$75k each) that lets SMEs and startups trial additive manufacturing on real projects, with an info session July 15.
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Industry
No Ink, No Gravity, No Problem: Auburn and NASA Print Working Electronics in Microgravity
Auburn University and NASA Marshall flew a 60 cm inkless printer through 50 parabolic microgravity arcs, laser-ablating solid silver and copper into conductive traces — and silver came out nearly 49% more conductive in freefall.
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Materials
A Pinch of Turmeric: How Curcumin Fixes the Blur in Ceramic Resin Printing
Hunan University researchers found that curcumin, the yellow compound in turmeric, both absorbs stray 405 nm light and scavenges free radicals, cutting radical signals ~43.6% and pushing DLP ceramic fidelity to ~26 microns at just 0.01-0.02 wt%.
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Guides
Green, Brown, Done: A Maker's Guide to Debinding and Sintering Metal and Ceramic Prints
The furnace does the real work in bound-metal and ceramic printing. Here's how green parts become brown, then dense final parts—and why most makers ship the hard steps out.
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