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CubeSats + 3D printing... for space. I'm surprised this isn't an ACT project :) more info: SpiderFab: Process for On-Orbit Construction of Kilometer-Scale Apertures

$100,000 from NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program to hammer out a design and figure out whether spacecraft self-construction makes business sense .... I can answer for 0$ ..... NO Infact the question is just stupid: a) spacecraft self-construction exist: then it is a no brainer to decide wether it makes business sense b) it does not: then there is no business

From the article: By the end of September 2014, Jason Budinoff, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD), is expected to complete the first imaging telescopes ever assembled almost exclusively from 3D-manufactured components. The devices' optics and electronics will be fabricated using conventional methods. "As far as I know, we are the first to attempt to build an entire instrument with 3D printing," says Budinoff. He is building a fully functional 50 mm camera whose outer tube, baffles, and optical mounts are all printed as a single structure. The instrument is appropriately sized for a CubeSat (a small satellite made of individual units each about 100 mm on a side). 

best comment: "I've seen people wear far sillier things in the pub than 3D specs"

Think 3D printers are cool? Check out this 3D pen!

Looks like fun! I wonder if you could do the same with a hot glue gun... (memo to self: play more with hot glue gun)

looks like the first "killer app" for 3D printers I am aware of ... highly useful and solving humanities most pressing problems as expected

Nature paper by HP Labs: they use waveguides to produce a 3D wide-angle glasses-free image. Here's there website: http://h30507.www3.hp.com/t5/Innovation-HP-Labs/On-Our-Way-to-Glasses-Free-3D/ba-p/134391#.UcFSSOdgfTo

Both graphene and 3d printing has been around for quite a while, but combined they could provide unique properties of materials, eg in the use of high performance 3d batteries. This paper gives a nice overview of what has been done in the field up to now.

A good DIY project - build a tractor beam using 3D printed parts. The 3D files and research are available for download. A new way for microgravity research @fichbio ?

Demand for drones is exploding! Dupin wants to aggregate aerial imagery from around the globle at Dronestagr.am. In the near future we could experience something close to google maps, made with aerial pictures.

Remember that drones have top-view camera and front-view camera which gives more possibilities in terms of what you can do with collected data. With such a huge database and a little bit of 3D geometry we could get e.g. a 3D map of the world... I guess google can derive something like that already from their streetview images however obviously street view covers some relatively small part of the globe and also can not access places that UAV can.

Here there's an example of a 3D picture of Tokyo (in high resolution). It is not made by drones, but I think it is something we can use them for. http://360gigapixels.com/tokyo-tower-panorama-photo/

The European Space Agency has unveiled plans to "take 3D printing into the metal age" by building parts for jets, spacecraft and fusion projects.

Metal Age sounds like some epic good time...

We must get one of these. They had a goal of 50.000$ but got, instead more than 3,000,000$ !!

Really bad market analysis on their part...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/formlabs/form-1-an-affordable-professional-3d-printer?ref=live i think this is the one I was talking about the other day. ~3M$ from 100k$ target in 2012. I think I remembered it though cos they got sued for patent infringement and it was the first time kickstarter had been included in the lawsuit. I may even have posted the story on diigo...

did you try it, Luca?? a simple way to make 3D effects with your wii.....amazing

any of us has knowledge how to use this open source 3D rendering software? -LS I used it, but it was a while ago. Why? - MR

What about a 3D picture of our office? - LS: nice! should I bring my camera tomorrow? who is volunteering?

fun

impressive, particularly if it works like it does in the video the whole time. paper here http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/

Well, impressive indeed... have to try it out...

nice and apparently simple idea to get 3D

Actually on these videos it seems to look very nice at times... have you tried it with your i-whatever?

not yet ...

"Tilted table", "peacock" and "triple-floor building" are just three of many fantastical 3D structures that have been created by compressing simple 2D patterns. The new technique for creating these objects is called compressive buckling, and has been developed by researchers in the US, China and South Korea.

Cool technique to 3D print glass structures of small sizes.