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World’s first 3D printed vertebra implanted in 12-year-old boy | Science! | Geek.com

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Science!By Ryan Whitwam Aug.20, 2014 7:31 am Doctors at Peking University in China have accomplished something never before seen in medicine.They have successfully replaced a section of vertebra with a 3D printed implant.Doctors say this implant should incorporate itself better with the existing bone and shorten recovery time.

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How To Make a 3D Printed Object from a Photo in 5 Easy Steps

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Looking to get your feet wet on your first 3D printing project?  You can by taking ordinary photos of everyday objects and turning them into extraordinary 3D models. Turning 2D into 3D has never been easier as this project requires no coding experience and runs 100% on free software.You don’t have to buy a 3D printer and you can do it all without leaving your house. Let’s get started!

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3D Printing With SketchUp: An Easy Introduction

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Formerly owned by Google, Trimble Navigation‘s SketchUp is a free beginner-friendly Computer Assisted Design (CAD) software that can create highly detailed, 3D printable architecture (i.e.houses), furniture (i.e.cabinets), and mechanical parts (i.

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Extracting building height from Lidar | Development Seed

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Lidar is similar to radar.but with lasers.Lidar produces incredibly accurate and specific spatial information, making it great for measuring building heights and modeling the impact of floods and raising sea levels.Advances in lidar technology are making lidar data more available.Humanitarian drones may make it possible to collect up-to-date lidar data in the midst of a humanitarian crisis.

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3 Ways 3D Printing Empowers Artists

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At the core of art is creativity: The urge to express yourself and to bring something into the world that hasn’t been there before.Art inspires and puts us in awe.And it all starts with an idea.3D printing is fueled by your ideas.And its core is freedom.

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How to Share And Embed Your 3D Design Using Sketchfab

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There is now a free, interactive, and comparatively safe way to share your 3D design with friends: Sketchfab.What YouTube is to video, Sketchfab is to 3D files.Alban Denoyel, previously featured in Makezine, launched Sketchfab after noting that many of us share 3D designs via grainy screenshots, large rendered images, or by unsafely sending out our file. Sketchfab provides a neat alternative: it allows you to share an interactive, fast-loading rendered view of your 3D model— without allowing viewers to download or illegally distribute your file.This free tool is pretty intuitive, but read on for time-saving tips and screenshots!

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Amazon Launches a Portal Dedicated to Customizing 3D-printed Products

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Amazon has introduced a new portal on its site that is designed to bring together and highlight 3D-printed products for sale on the platform.The company said that the marketplace is home to more than “200 unique print on-demand products” – including toys, fashion accessories and home furnishings – most of which can (thanks to the nature of the manufacturing process) be customized by material, size, styles, colors.You can also personalize them with your own images or text if you like.To make finding and viewing 3D products easier, the portal includes custom search tools, interactive 3D preview functionality (allowing for a full 360-degree view) and a product personalization widget so you can tweak the item to your heart’s content.For around $40 or less you can customize items like cufflinks, bobbleheads or wine glass holders and for around $100 you can make custom pendants and other jewellery.

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3DShapes Aims to be the Google of 3D Printable Models via Comprehensive Image Search - 3DPrint.com

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About 15 years ago, a start up company based out of a garage in California, moved into their Palo Alto Headquarters for the first time.That start up was Google, and they changed the way that billions of people search the internet on a daily basis.Using sophisticated computer algorithms, which take hundreds of variables into account, Google has solidified their position as the worlds #1 internet search engine. In fact they are so far ahead of their competition, that some have even called them a monopoly.Here we are in 2014, and one company hopes to do the same thing Google did in the late 1990′s, start a company based around search, that could change the way we all interact with our computers.

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LIX: The Smallest 3D Printing Pen in the World

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Big things occasionally come in small packages.Earlier this month we blogged about Spor, a pocket-sized solar charger in a 3D-printed case, but there are plenty of other Kickstarter campaigns that bring innovative 3D printing technologies into reality.If you have a passing interest in 3D printing, then you’ve most certainly read about the smallest 3D printing pen in the world, LIX.Handy size, just like a normal pen Inserting ABS and PLA filament.The red code is connected to a USB port.

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Intel to Create Open Source 3D Printed Robot Kit

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Intel demoed Jimmy, a smartphone with legs, their latest robot, customized and created from their new open source 3D printed robot kit at the Code Conference this week.This exciting announcement is a profound and inspiring move to increase participation in the robotics space.Intel is selling kits of the internal electronic and mechanical components (yet to be cost effectively 3D Printed), and they are offering the 3D printable hardware designs free online.Any Shapie, or individual with access to a 3D Printer will be able to print their own robot and have access to their social robotics platform to customize its form and function as they please.The kits will start at around $1,600 and Intel hopes to get number below $1,000 by 2019.

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