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Google Hands Out the Blueprints: 3D-Printing Your Own Fitbit Air Accessories
Google released official technical specs and 2D CAD drawings for the $100 Fitbit Air pebble and sleeve, handing makers the exact mating dimensions, tolerances, and attach/detach forces to print bands and adapters that actually fit, plus skin-safe material rules and Made for Google certification for accessories.
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Software
Zurich Startup Nureo Pitches AI Design Automation to Cut CAD Time From Weeks to Minutes
ETH Zurich spinout nureo says its manufacturability-aware AI design platform can compress CAD workflows for fluid manifolds and other parts from weeks to minutes, with Formnext recognition already in hand.
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Industry
No Batteries, No Motors: Queen's University Students 3D Print an Elbow-to-Fingers Prosthetic for the Thailand-Myanmar Border
A Queen's University biomedical engineering team has built and field-tested a fully mechanical, 3D-printed above-elbow prosthetic that moves the elbow and individual fingers using only the wearer's own body movement — a design now getting fresh attention from the additive-manufacturing trade press.
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Printers
SUNLU's New AMS Lite Heater Lets Bambu Lab Printers Dry and Print at the Same Time
SUNLU's $129.99 AMS Lite Heater adds active 70°C drying to Bambu Lab's AMS Lite, letting filament dry and print simultaneously — a fix timed to the company's 13th anniversary and U.S. factory expansion.
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Materials
Italian Valve Maker Valland Proves Automotive Scrap Aluminum Can Feed Metal 3D Printers
Valland's EU-backed ToZero project turned AA5083 scrap from car body manufacturing into laser powder bed fusion feedstock, printing a crack-free structural part while cutting carbon footprint 73%.
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Business
Massachusetts Awards VulcanForms $21.26M in Tax Credits for Third Bay State Metal-AM Plant
Massachusetts approved $21.26M in tax credits on July 2, 2026 for VulcanForms' planned Devens metal-3D-printing megafacility, projected to create up to 1,250 jobs as the MIT spinout scales its industrial AM platform.
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Printers
HeyGears Unveils G1 Series: One Desktop Machine for Full-Color 3D, Deep Relief, and UV Printing
HeyGears' new G1 Series packs full-color 3D printing, 2.9D deep relief, 2D UV flatbed printing, and 3D texture printing into one desktop machine, with $50 VIP deposits open ahead of a July 2026 Kickstarter.
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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 Lands With Native Windows ARM64 Build and a Skirt-Generation Fix
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 ships a native Windows ARM64 build for Snapdragon X Elite laptops, fixes a 2.4.0 bug that reprinted skirts during sequential printing, and adds Snapmaker U1 and Elegoo Centauri 2 profiles.
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Industry
Queen's University Students Open-Source a Battery-Free 3D-Printed Prosthetic Arm for Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border
A Queen's University team spent three years building a fully mechanical, open-source above-elbow prosthetic with no electronics or batteries for the Burma Children Medical Fund, winning first place at RESNA and runner-up at Rice University.
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Materials
SUSTech's Expansion-Forming 3D Printing Method Nearly Triples Composite Honeycomb Strength
A new expansion-forming 3D printing process from SUSTech gives continuous-fiber composite honeycombs non-0-degree fiber orientations, boosting specific compressive strength 198.64% and cutting dimensional error 82.76% versus conventional printed honeycombs.
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Business
Velo3D Triples Metal 3D Printing Capacity With New 289,000-Sq-Ft Livermore Campus
Velo3D is building a 288,747-square-foot production campus in Livermore, California, that will eventually house 100+ metal AM systems to meet surging aerospace and defense demand.
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Industry
California's Printer-Lockdown Bill Clears Committee, Heads to Senate Public Safety
AB 2047, which would force every 3D printer sold in California to include firearm-detection blocking tech by December 2029, advanced through committee in late June and drew EFF warnings that it's unworkable and a surveillance risk for makers.
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