{"id":29782,"date":"2017-03-10T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T22:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/?p=29782"},"modified":"2022-10-14T13:04:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T17:04:59","slug":"week-3d-printing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/week-3d-printing-2","title":{"rendered":"The Week in 3D Printing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houses got built in a day, the hot-but-flawed&nbsp;new Nintendo console got crowdsourced fixes, neon plastic met&nbsp;medical science, and car companies got additive \u2014 all this week in 3D printing.<\/p>\n<h3>We&#8217;re gonna need bigger printers<\/h3>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/apis-cor.com\/en\/about\/news\/first-house\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D printed house<\/a> went viral this week&nbsp;\u2014 with good reason. Built in a day for only $10,000, it&#8217;s not only incredibly cute (who doesn&#8217;t love a tiny house these days?), but it was also built by an unbelievably&nbsp;cool, enormous&nbsp;Apis Cor printer that had to be moved with a&nbsp;crane. Plus, the house was built in a snowy lot&nbsp;during a Russian winter, which should qualify it&nbsp;to work on Mars, at least in theory.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xktwDfasPGQ\" width=\"712\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>When you buy the latest toy way too soon<\/h3>\n<p>The Nintendo Switch made waves last week for being, well, the latest Nintendo console to hit the market. But, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/people-are-trying-to-fix-the-switchs-dumb-design-issues-1793020785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">as Gizmodo reported<\/a>, it&#8217;s might not have been&#8230; ready \u2014 at least as far as the design is concerned. Enter the internet&#8217;s&nbsp;most resourceful&nbsp;3D designers, who&#8217;ve been sharing&nbsp;3D printed solutions&nbsp;for everything from a faulty kickstand to a missing d-pad and inadequate joysticks. Maybe Nintendo <em>wanted<\/em> people to hack together fixes? Or not?<\/p>\n<h3>Fighting cancer with&nbsp;PLA<\/h3>\n<p>TechCrunch brought us the story of <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2017\/03\/07\/these-jolly-candy-colored-3d-printed-livers-help-doctors-treat-tumors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">candy-colored tumors<\/a>, set in silicone, that are helping doctors practice tricky laparoscopic liver cancer surgeries before operating on real patients. Never before has practicing dangerous life-saving surgeries been so&#8230; cute.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1qkjxfhmXdQ\" width=\"712\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Drive it off the print bed<\/h3>\n<p>OK, we&#8217;re not exactly there yet, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jimresnick\/2017\/03\/08\/for-the-automakers-large-scale-3d-printing-is-the-next-powerful-toolbox\/#57cd61607ee0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to Forbes<\/a>, the largest car manufacturers&nbsp;\u2014 including the literal inventor of the assembly line \u2014&nbsp;are starting to incorporate 3D printing into production processes in a typically large-scale way. It might be a while before 3D printing moves beyond the prototyping stage for most cars, but super-high-end rides will likely see more and more 3D-printing-enabled customization. In the meantime, I&#8217;ll&nbsp;stick with custom&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/marketplace\/miniatures\/vehicles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">3D printed cars<\/a> I can actually afford:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29787\" style=\"width: 722px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/product\/4XWHH3PEM\/set-1970s-street-view-n-1-160?optionId=58359487&amp;li=marketplace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29787\" class=\"wp-image-29787 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45-712x334.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"712\" height=\"334\" data-wp-pid=\"29787\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45-712x334.png 712w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45-768x361.png 768w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45-1024x481.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45-625x294.png 625w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45-800x376.png 800w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45-400x188.png 400w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.19.45.png 1252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 712px) 100vw, 712px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-29787\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A whole stable of sweet (N scale) 3D printed rides&#8230; courtesy RAILNSCALE<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houses got built in a day, the hot-but-flawed&nbsp;new Nintendo console got crowdsourced fixes, neon plastic met&nbsp;medical science, and car companies&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":29790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[510],"tags":[901,541,1684,623,559,1153,1596,944],"class_list":["post-29782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-3d-printing-industry","tag-3d-automotive","tag-3d-printer","tag-architecture","tag-gaming","tag-inspiration","tag-medical-3d-printing","tag-the-week-in-3d-printing","tag-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Screenshot-2017-03-10-17.31.29-625x372.png","yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - 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