Industry experts met with U.S. Navy leaders at the 2015 Naval Additive Manufacturing Technical Interchange held at the Carderock Division of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Potomac, Maryland, to explore using 3D printing capabilities to solve Navy problems.
The 3D Printer is not just for making fancy sculptures or toys. It is also being used to help astronauts in space and to save the lives of babies on Earth.
Want to take your bike to the mountainside? It can easily be done simply by printing out the frames and other parts of a bicycle and put it together. British firms - Renishaw, the U.K.'s only 3D-printing manufacturer and Empire Cycles, a bicycle design company in the west of England - come together to create an innovative framework of world's first 3D-printed metal bike.
The evolution of the 3D-printed gun continues. A Wisconsin man has improved on the original "Liberator" design released by Defense Distributed, bringing the cost down to $25.