Posts tagged 3D printer

Last June, an 83-year-old Belgian woman suffering from oral cancer and an infection that was eating away at her jaw received a jawbone transplant that took a team of 10 surgeons 11 hours to complete. The BBC reported on the story on Monday.

The operation was a success. Reportedly, the patient was able to eat and speak with the new jaw within hours. The operation was an even more remarkable success in one other respect: The jaw itself was manufactured with a 3-D printer.

It was built of titanium powder by a surgical team from Belgium’s Hasselt University and engineers from LayerWise, a Belgian provider of engineering and production services for industrial, dental, and medical applications.

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There are some great kits out there - the Makerbot, the Ultimaker, the Prusa Mendel, and others - but none as small and simple as the Printrbot.  This all-in-one 3D printer kit can be assembled and printing in a couple of hours.  Other kits will not only take you many more hours to build, they will also have hundreds more parts, and they will cost more.This design also does away with the finicky calibration and adjustment from which most 3D printers suffer.   This is the printer a kid could put together. They assemble the electronics,assemble the hotend, and put the connectors on all the motors and components… no soldering required!

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