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Materials
Italian Valve Maker Valland Proves Automotive Scrap Aluminum Can Feed Metal 3D Printers
Valland's EU-backed ToZero project turned AA5083 scrap from car body manufacturing into laser powder bed fusion feedstock, printing a crack-free structural part while cutting carbon footprint 73%.
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Business
Massachusetts Awards VulcanForms $21.26M in Tax Credits for Third Bay State Metal-AM Plant
Massachusetts approved $21.26M in tax credits on July 2, 2026 for VulcanForms' planned Devens metal-3D-printing megafacility, projected to create up to 1,250 jobs as the MIT spinout scales its industrial AM platform.
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Printers
HeyGears Unveils G1 Series: One Desktop Machine for Full-Color 3D, Deep Relief, and UV Printing
HeyGears' new G1 Series packs full-color 3D printing, 2.9D deep relief, 2D UV flatbed printing, and 3D texture printing into one desktop machine, with $50 VIP deposits open ahead of a July 2026 Kickstarter.
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Software
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 Lands With Native Windows ARM64 Build and a Skirt-Generation Fix
OrcaSlicer 2.4.1 ships a native Windows ARM64 build for Snapdragon X Elite laptops, fixes a 2.4.0 bug that reprinted skirts during sequential printing, and adds Snapmaker U1 and Elegoo Centauri 2 profiles.
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Industry
Queen's University Students Open-Source a Battery-Free 3D-Printed Prosthetic Arm for Refugees on the Thai-Myanmar Border
A Queen's University team spent three years building a fully mechanical, open-source above-elbow prosthetic with no electronics or batteries for the Burma Children Medical Fund, winning first place at RESNA and runner-up at Rice University.
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Materials
SUSTech's Expansion-Forming 3D Printing Method Nearly Triples Composite Honeycomb Strength
A new expansion-forming 3D printing process from SUSTech gives continuous-fiber composite honeycombs non-0-degree fiber orientations, boosting specific compressive strength 198.64% and cutting dimensional error 82.76% versus conventional printed honeycombs.
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Business
Velo3D Triples Metal 3D Printing Capacity With New 289,000-Sq-Ft Livermore Campus
Velo3D is building a 288,747-square-foot production campus in Livermore, California, that will eventually house 100+ metal AM systems to meet surging aerospace and defense demand.
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Industry
California's Printer-Lockdown Bill Clears Committee, Heads to Senate Public Safety
AB 2047, which would force every 3D printer sold in California to include firearm-detection blocking tech by December 2029, advanced through committee in late June and drew EFF warnings that it's unworkable and a surveillance risk for makers.
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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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