Irish company Mcor's unique paper-based 3D printers make some very compelling arguments. For starters, instead of expensive plastics, they build objects out of cut-and-glued sheets of standard 80 ...

Laminated object manufacturing (LOM) is a method of 3D printing ... layers of plastic or paper are fused — or laminated — together using heat and pressure, and then cut into the desired ...

Researchers have developed 3D-printed ... printing a range of objects – including a shoe pad, a soft robot, a multiphase composite and an electronic sensor – and then cutting them in half.

They’ve tweaked their laser cutter settings to allow not just cutting but also welding of acrylic. This lets them build up 3D objects out of acrylic slices with no human intervention by first ...

When you can 3D print with more than one material at once in the same printer, it makes creating complex objects a lot easier ... printer for the purpose of a paper accepted at the 2015 SIGGRAPH ...

Like a kid shooting spitballs, designer Beer Holthuis has figured out that sopping wet paper is the best material for making mischief. His 3D printer, a primitive RepRap clone that literally ...

That’s changing however, with design firm Emerging Objects’ recycled and recyclable 3D printing materials. Using materials like salt, concrete, wood and paper, they are putting the green in 3D ...

is a master at making these objects using only a scroll saw as he’s done with his latest, a miniature camel cut from a single block of maple. His process has a lot of similarities to 3D printing.

but Moore and his team also use lasers to "read" an object to create a 3D file. This process allows them to reverse engineer practically anything. For example, an Army technician scans part of a ...

which transforms the sheets into a 3D object. Without a blueprint, Kato folds a 78.8 centimeter by 1.09-meter sheet of thick, sturdy Leathac paper by applying a lot of pressure to her fingertips ...