User Tag List

+ Reply to Thread
Results 1 to 6 of 6

Thread: 3-D Printer

  1. #1
    Points: 99,477, Level: 76
    Level completed: 82%, Points required for next Level: 473
    Overall activity: 0.1%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album pictures50000 Experience PointsOverdriveVeteran
    PolWatch's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    299327
    Join Date
    May 2014
    Location
    Alabama
    Posts
    33,626
    Points
    99,477
    Level
    76
    Thanks Given
    20,557
    Thanked 25,148x in 15,266 Posts
    Mentioned
    895 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    3-D Printer

    A puppy made famous because of his special set of wheels is headed off to help other dogs with similar needs. This story combines technology with a whole lot of cuteness!

    Turboroo the chihuahua was born without front legs. His owners used toy parts to create the original prosthesis, that helped Turboroo's story go viral. it inspired others to improve on the design using a 3D printer.

    So when the 3D printing store in Denver decided to create its own pet prostheses, it reached out to Turboroo's owners in Indiana for help.

    "The possibilities with 3D printing are endless and that's what we love with the partnership with the 3D print store. They have the expertise in the design and we have the expertise in finding the animals for the designs," said Ashley Looper.

    The 3D printing store also printed a prosthetic shell for a local tortoise named Cleopatra.

    video at link


    http://www.local15tv.com//shared/new...l#.VYKyKEaTpLN
    Through all of our running and all of our cunning, if we couldn't laugh we just would go insane. - Jimmy Buffett

  2. #2
    Original Ranter
    Points: 859,122, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 90.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album picturesOverdrive50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    Awards:
    Posting Award
    Peter1469's Avatar Advisor
    Karma
    496582
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    NOVA
    Posts
    241,700
    Points
    859,122
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    153,223
    Thanked 147,592x in 94,421 Posts
    Mentioned
    2552 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    You can make a gun with a 3D printer.
    ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ


  3. The Following 2 Users Say Thank You to Peter1469 For This Useful Post:

    Cthulhu (06-18-2015),PolWatch (06-18-2015)

  4. #3
    Points: 39,654, Level: 48
    Level completed: 69%, Points required for next Level: 496
    Overall activity: 0.1%
    Achievements:
    VeteranTagger First Class25000 Experience PointsSocial
    waltky's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    5662
    Join Date
    Oct 2012
    Posts
    8,859
    Points
    39,654
    Level
    48
    Thanks Given
    2,515
    Thanked 2,140x in 1,616 Posts
    Mentioned
    46 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)

    Lightbulb

    Repairing injuries with 3-D-Printed Synthetic Bone Shows Promise...

    3-D-Printed Synthetic Bone Shows Promise for Repairing Injuries
    September 28, 2016 - Three-D printers can make just about anything — even synthetic bones.
    The material, called hyperelastic bone or HB, stimulates new bone growth when grafted to a bone injury site, and its developers say it is perfect for use in developing countries because it is inexpensive and quick to create. HB is unlike other man-made bone material, which is brittle and hard to work with, or human bone grafts that sometimes don't take hold. Its biomaterial is made up of minerals found in bones and teeth, and a polymer. The resulting sheet is both highly elastic and strong, and it can be shaped into various sizes and thicknesses, then cut and folded in any number of ways to be sutured for a tight bone graft.


    Hyperelastic Bone Being 3-D-printed Into Forms, Absorbing Liquid, Demonstrating Elasticity

    Stem cells are overlaid on HB, which acts as a flexible scaffold. The body readily accepts the highly porous, implanted material, through which new blood vessels form and grow. No growth factors are used to stimulate healing. In experiments with animals, HB melded into surrounding tissue in just four weeks, fusing to spines in rats and repairing a skull defect in monkeys. The work is described in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

    Many applications

    Ramille Shah, a professor in Northwestern University's Department of Materials Science and Engineering, helped develop the technology and sees many applications for it. "Because of the versatility and properties and ability to print hyperelastic bone in different forms, anywhere from large sheets or hollow or dense structures to simple or complex structures, we envision this material to be used in a variety of orthopedic applications, from fine fractures to sports medicine injuries — as an example, [ligament] or rotator cuff injuries, where soft tissue-to-bone healing is very important — and also different cranial-facial defect applications," Shah said.


    This photo series shows how custom-sized synthetic sleeves can be snugly stretched around, cut and sutured to a soft tissue, such as human cadaveric tendon, facilitating arthroscopic repair of an anterior cruciate ligament or replacement surgery.

    Co-author Adam Jakus said there are a number of advantages to using hyperelastic bone, which is very inexpensive to make. "Production-wise, [it's] very tailorable, very fast," he said. "And then you have this material that pops out [of the 3-D printer]. You don't have to do any further processing of it. You really just need to wash it and sterilize it and package it, and then it can be used."


    Properly scaled, anatomically correct parts, such as a human mandible can be designed, 3-D-printed and washed to rapidly produce a ready-to-implant object. Final image shows 3-D-printed mandible next to an adult cadaveric human mandible.

    Because it doesn't require refrigeration, Jakus thinks HB is ideal for use in the developing world, "where you can just ship it way ahead of time, have it on the shelf until it's needed, rather than having to create a complex biomaterial that needs to be heavily refrigerated or frozen. In most of these cases in the Third World countries, those types of facilities might not be accessible." The authors see hyperelastic material being used in children to repair bones and disfiguring injuries that are socially isolating. Because the polymers already have the approval of U.S. regulators, scientists hope to make hyperelastic bone available for use by doctors within the next five years.

    http://www.voanews.com/a/three-dimen...s/3529087.html

  5. #4
    Original Ranter
    Points: 859,122, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 90.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album picturesOverdrive50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    Awards:
    Posting Award
    Peter1469's Avatar Advisor
    Karma
    496582
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    NOVA
    Posts
    241,700
    Points
    859,122
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    153,223
    Thanked 147,592x in 94,421 Posts
    Mentioned
    2552 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    You can make weapons too.
    ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ


  6. #5
    Points: 62,392, Level: 61
    Level completed: 2%, Points required for next Level: 2,058
    Overall activity: 0.1%
    Achievements:
    Social50000 Experience PointsOverdriveVeteran
    OGIS's Avatar Senior Member
    Karma
    447467
    Join Date
    May 2015
    Posts
    11,504
    Points
    62,392
    Level
    61
    Thanks Given
    3,918
    Thanked 2,647x in 2,130 Posts
    Mentioned
    142 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    You can make weapons too.
    You can make anything, actually. Twice, in this thread, you've mentioned weapons. What is your point? Do you think 3D printing should be banned technology?

    Because that always works so well....
    Wearing a mask with your nose sticking out is like wearing a condom on your testicles.

    When out walking, look out for PROBlems. You know: maskless Plague Rats On Bicycles who blow past you without giving you time to get out of the way.

    Ah, CONServatives, the Masters of Projection (MOPs). With CONServatives, every accusation is a confession. Weird, that.

    ............Oh, what fresh hell is this?
    ,,,........¯¯\_(ツ)_/¯¯
    ....... Not my circus, not my monkeys

  7. #6
    Original Ranter
    Points: 859,122, Level: 100
    Level completed: 0%, Points required for next Level: 0
    Overall activity: 90.0%
    Achievements:
    SocialCreated Album picturesOverdrive50000 Experience PointsVeteran
    Awards:
    Posting Award
    Peter1469's Avatar Advisor
    Karma
    496582
    Join Date
    Jun 2011
    Location
    NOVA
    Posts
    241,700
    Points
    859,122
    Level
    100
    Thanks Given
    153,223
    Thanked 147,592x in 94,421 Posts
    Mentioned
    2552 Post(s)
    Tagged
    0 Thread(s)
    Quote Originally Posted by OGIS View Post
    You can make anything, actually. Twice, in this thread, you've mentioned weapons. What is your point? Do you think 3D printing should be banned technology?

    Because that always works so well....
    No.
    ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ


+ Reply to Thread

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts