3D printing is fast becoming an invaluable tool within the sports industry, with a rapidly growing range of applications. A host of top sports manufacturers have seen the technology’s potential. Adidas has recently begun trialling it for a new breed of running shoe, and Nike has been granted a major patent for footwear production. Now, a team of three engineers from the University of Bristol in the UK have developed a new 3D printing technique,…

People in the Netherlands will soon be able to cycle over the world’s first 3D-printed steel bridge on the world’s first 3D-printed steel bicycle The Arc Bicycle was designed by a student team at TU Delft and 3D-printed from steel by MX3D – the research studio that plans to use the same technique to create a bridge over a canal in Amsterdam. Created as part of the six-month Advanced Prototyping course at the university, the bicycle’s…