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Materials
Caltech's 3D-Printed Lattice Cathode Rethinks Lithium-Ion Battery Architecture
Caltech's Julia Greer lab used hydrogel-infusion additive manufacturing to print a cobalt-free, 3D-architected LiFePO4 cathode that shortens lithium-ion travel paths versus flat layered electrodes.
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Printers
HeyGears Unveils G1X, a Desktop 3-in-1 Full-Color 3D and UV Printer
HeyGears' new G1X crams full-color 3D printing, raised-texture printing, and 2D UV flatbed printing into one desktop machine, with VIP pricing from $3,299 ahead of a July 2026 Kickstarter.
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Guides
Oomwoo: An Open-Source, Fully Offline Robot Vacuum You 3D Print and Build Yourself
Maker's Pet is building Oomwoo, an Apache 2.0 3D-printed robot vacuum with Raspberry Pi, LiDAR, and ROS 2/Nav2 that runs entirely offline to dodge the cloud-hijacking bugs found in commercial vacuums.
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Business
VulcanForms Lands $21.26M Massachusetts Tax Credit for Million-Square-Foot Metal 3D Printing Plant
Massachusetts approved a $21.26 million tax credit for VulcanForms' new up-to-one-million-square-foot Devens metal 3D printing plant, projected to add 1,063 jobs as part of a broader $52 million, 11-project state award round.
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Industry
Where 3D Printing Actually Works in Audio: Materials Science Over Hype
From SLA resin clarinet mouthpieces to carbon-fiber guitar headstocks, additive manufacturing has carved out real niches in acoustic applications, but the physics of sound reveals exactly where FDM layer lines become liabilities.
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Guides
Snap Fit Design for 3D Printing: Deflection Math, Tolerances, and Material Tradeoffs
Cantilever and annular snap fits are deceptively simple mechanisms that FDM printers struggle to reproduce reliably. Here is the geometry, deflection math, clearance strategy, and material selection logic to get them right on the first print.
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Industry
The $24.8 Billion Reckoning: How 3D Printing Is Finally Ditching the Hype for Hard Outcomes
Industry analysts and AM executives entering 2026 are converging on a single theme: the era of measuring progress by hardware deployments is over, replaced by a harder accounting of utilization rates, yield, and repeatable outcomes at scale.
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Software
Bambu Studio 2.6.1 Solves the Spool Guessing Game with RFID-Backed Filament Tracking
The 2.6.1 beta release brings a Filament Manager that tracks remaining spool weight via extrusion calculations, syncs across devices through Bambu Cloud, and adds substantial hardware support for the H2C and H2D Pro machines.
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Guides
Multi-Material FDM in 2026: Why Architecture Matters More Than You Think
Choosing a multi-material printer is really a choice between three distinct hardware architectures, each with fundamentally different tradeoffs in purge waste, contamination risk, and temperature compatibility -- and the wrong choice for your materials can make certain prints impossible.
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Software
OrcaSlicer vs. Bambu Studio vs. PrusaSlicer: Which Slicer Actually Wins in 2026?
The slicer landscape in 2026 has fragmented along clear lines: ecosystem loyalty, calibration depth, and hardware compatibility each favor a different tool, and the right answer depends almost entirely on what you are printing on.
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Printers
Prusa XL Gets Its Most Ambitious Update Yet: Silicone Printing, Pick-and-Place, and a Lower Price
Prusa Research has significantly upgraded the XL platform with two new experimental toolheads, a price reduction, and the end of the semi-assembled option — signaling that the machine is maturing from a niche workhorse into a genuine production tool.
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Business
Arridex Commissions West Africa's First Multi-Technology Additive Manufacturing Factory in Lagos
RusselSmith rebranded to Arridex and commissioned the Lagos "Omnifactory" -- billed as West Africa's first multi-tech industrial AM plant, running L-PBF, cold spray, SLS, and FFF under one roof to localize spare-parts production.
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