The spare part? The 3D printer supplies it

Does something break in the house? The 3D #printer takes care of printing the new piece, and voilà, the game is done. It's not science fiction, but a reality very close to us. Groupe Seb, a French giant specializing in small household appliances (in Italy it sells Rowenta, Moulinex, Krups and Tefal), is experimenting in France with a new system of "molding" spare parts, using 3D printers. Today it works like this, as far as spare parts are concerned: the company has a warehouse that contains 5,7 million... Read more

G3DP, the “glazier” printer

G3DP is a manufacturing platform designed to 3D print transparent glass developed by researchers at MIT. Not only that: it can make them graduated by varying their thickness and also modify through other steps the degree of opacity of a glass and its color, the index of transmission, reflection and refraction of light, and all the other parameters specific to any type of glass. The platform is based on a thermal printer with two heating chambers: the upper one acts as an oven… Read more