A motor — or a generator — requires some normal magnets and some electromagnets. The usual arrangement is to have a brushed commutator that both powers the electromagnets and switches their polarity ...

Despite the best efforts of the RepRap community over the last twenty years, self-replicating 3D printers have remained a stubbornly elusive goal, largely due to the difficulty of printing electronics ...

Carl Bugeja, a software developer and an electronics engineer, said, "I made an ultra-thin motor using printed circuit boards" and explained how to make motors using ...

If you're going to 3D-print rocket parts, you'd want to make them out of metal to handle the stress, right? Not necessarily. MIT has successfully test-fired what it believes is the first completely 3D ...

Ford Motor had six patents in 3D printing during Q2 2024. Ford Motor Co filed patents for an electric machine with a unique winding design, a gear forming tool with 3D printed cutting edges, an ...

Firehawk Aerospace recently conducted its first flight test of a 3D-printed Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) ...

Ford Motor Company is always looking for ways to improve fuel economy and overall vehicle performance. The latest design idea is the use of a Stratasys Infinite Build 3D printer. This practice enables ...

“I’ve done wheelies in it. I’ve lifted the front wheels going up a hill in fourth gear by four or five inches,” says Kevin Czinger, founder and CEO of Divergent Microfactories. Fair to say, we like ...

From fidget spinners to key holders, spiral vases to a Marvel Ironman mask, finding cool things to 3D print is easy and readily available on the web. It may be too easy. While this column usually ...

Toyota Motor had nine patents in 3D printing during Q2 2024. The patent filed by Toyota Motor Corp in Q2 2024 describes a sensor with a grayscale digital light processing (g-DLP) 3D printed monolithic ...