By Aad van de Wijngaart The Orange Hall in the Library becomes dead silent. Peter Troxler just explained that 3D printing in industry will require much less overhead. According to an IBM study, product batches ten times smaller could already be profitable. But, he adds, a not insignificant part of that shrinking overhead will consist..
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by Aad van de Wijngaart The first thing that catches my eye is a dishwasher. It’s an unusual presence in the study hall of the Library, but the dishes that are displayed in it are even stranger. They are exact copies of fragile drinking glasses that were made centuries ago and now reside in museum..
By Aad van de Wijngaart 3D printing can change your life. That is certainly the case for assistant professor Jouke Verlinden. On the evening of Tuesday 25 November, he will be speaking on ‘the pleasure of printing things’, as part of the 3D Print Week. Below, he gives a hint of what it means. What..