Additive Manufacturing

This is a first for Additive Manufacturing.  I am predicting that the Biotech industry will exponentially expand with the limitless possibilities that this process brings to the industry.  

Assignment:

Please read the information below and follow the links for articles and clips that will create new awareness of how additive technology applications are beginning alerted the perceptions of what is real and what is not...or it is?  That is for you to decide. 

3D printing and the history of modern Technological devices.  Click below to explore the history

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Assignment Part 1:  After you read the article's, please make a comment on your thoughts; (remember to log into your google account first) 

3D Printing The Next Five Years 

3D Printing trends for 2019 

What They Don’t Tell You About 3D Printing PLA

NASA and Made In Space to Transmogrify 3D Printed Objects Through Experimental Recycling Experiment

The central focus of your thoughts centered around ethics, practicality of 3D in all market places, please use solid examples here, as well as other possibilities that you can think of where this technology could be utilized that was not touched on in the articles,

                                                           
 

More information on Additive & Subtractive manufacturing processes

Glowforge

Assignment Part 2:  Read questions below and post comments on the blog. 

Read this article and watch the clips, take a moment to think about what problem you would solve using the technology of a 3-D printer.  Be thoughtful and incite-full, consider, and discuss all societal implications, both positive and negative the solution/s to your problem.  t

Click here to read the article about the image.

Assignment Part 3

Watch this short clip then read the ARTICLE

Watch this short clip then read the ARTICLE

Assignment Part 4
Check out the site Challenge.gov site.  Choose a challenge you would like to work on and create a solution to the problem.  (there will be more outlined parameters of this shortly)