The Brightwave Hemosep autotransfusion machine can do this – and its prototyping costs have been cut by 96 percent via 3D printing. During surgery, patients' blood is often "spilt." ...

A transfusion machine that takes a person's blood lost during an operation, filters it, and then puts it back into the body been improved through the use of 3D printing ...

Sustainable tinkering: Local makerspace crafting a machine to recycle 3D printer plastic. Molly DeVore Feb 26, 2023 Feb 26, 2023 Updated Oct 28, 2024; 0; Facebook; Twitter; Bluesky ...

Growth in 3D printing marches on at an annual 26% clip. While new printers keep increasing the print speeds and range of materials that can be used, data on recycling these materials has been sparse.

A recent paper from CHI 2025 postulated a new method to make multi-material 3D prints recyclable. Finding places that will ...