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Materials
SYZMIK's Carbon-Printed Lattice Headband Wins FIT Design Award for Flag Football Safety
SYZMIK's X7c+ headband, built around a 3D-printed EPU 45 lattice from Carbon's Digital Light Synthesis process, took the Sport Equipment Design/Innovation prize at the 2027 FIT Sport Design Awards and a Core77 runner-up nod.
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Printers
Bambu Lab Teases the R1, Its First Standalone Laser Cutter and Engraver
Bambu Lab has begun teasing the R1, a standalone laser cutter/engraver separate from the H2D's module, with a "Coming September" tagline and no specs yet — a potential shot across xTool's bow.
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Business
Buckley Conversions Builds the First Fully 3D-Printed Luxury Camper Van Interior
Buckley Conversions used a KUKA robot arm to print an entire luxury camper interior in polypropylene, shaving roughly 1,500 lbs off a Mercedes-Benz eSprinter build and stretching its EV range.
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Materials
Carbon Launches DB 4000, a Tougher FDA-Cleared Denture Base Resin for Digital Dentures
Carbon's new DB 4000 denture base resin claims 31% higher toughness than the category leader, FDA Class II clearance, and ISO 20795-1 compliance for M-Series DLS printers.
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Guides
Makers Pre-Melt Layers with Lasers to Nearly Eliminate FDM's Z-Axis Weak Point
A laser-assisted pre-melt technique spotted by Hackaday pushed Z-axis breaking strain to 94% of X-axis strength on ABS and 77.9% on PLA, directly attacking FDM's oldest structural weakness: layer adhesion.
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Industry
America Makes Puts $9M Behind Three Teams to Fix Defense AM Qualification Bottlenecks
America Makes and NCDMM named three winning teams — led by ATI Materials, Trusted Metal LLC, and The Barnes Global Advisors — for a $9M, Pentagon-funded push to speed up how defense contractors qualify 3D-printed parts and machines.
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Guides
FDM vs. Resin, Head to Head: A Hackaday Writer's Return to SLA Printing
Hackaday's Maya Posch pit an Elegoo Neptune 4 against Uniformation's 16K GK3 Ultra resin printer and came away convinced SLA wins on fine detail — but warns FDM users printing ABS/ASA need real respiratory protection.
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Materials
YouTuber Torches a Dozen Filaments to Find Out Which Ones Actually Catch Fire
A blowtorch test of a dozen filaments found ABS, ASA, and foam TPU burn readily with sooty yellow flames, while regular TPU and PETG strongly resist ignition even under direct flame.
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Business
Stratasys Posts Record Consumables Revenue as Defense Sales Jump 17% in Q2
Stratasys' Q2 2026 results show defense revenue up 17% and consumables at an all-time high of $66.3M, even as total revenue held flat and the company walked back its full-year cash flow outlook.
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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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