January 3, 2020

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EBF3: a Star-Trek-style Metal Fabrication Technique

3D printing is not new. The ancestor of 3D printers existed as early as the 80s, with a Japanese inventor patenting a prototype additive manufacturing machine. Still, 3D printers are, by nature, highly fragile, often expensive, and might not always work in every environment. This is why NASA’s electron beam freeform fabricator, shortened to EBF3,

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