RUG/Pennsylvania/State College/RepRap Media Timeline

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This page is a summary of 3D printing stories in press/tv/etc with a focus on RepRap in particular, but with some inclusion of other similar technologies.

Another good media timeline can be found here:[[1]]

Changes to this current timeline will be made by focusing on media that directly relates to RepRaps or interesting extensions which are commercialized items, such as the chocolate 3D printer, and futuristic technologies.

The media items indicated in "italics" signify the extensions made in the 3D printing industry, while the items in regular font will be related to RepRaps.

Viewers will notice that the "2012" section has far more items than the other years. This is due to the fact that a majority of advancements took place during this year and concrete ideas began blooming as well.

1980's

1984; Charles "Chuck" Hull develops a technology to print 3D objects using digital data and terms it "Stereolithography" [2]

March 11, 1986; Chuck Hull founded 3D Systems and invents the first 3D printer [3]

1987; Selective laser sintering is developed at the University of Texas-Austin and commercialized by DTM [4]

1988; S. Scott Crump invents Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), which is the basis for 3D printing extrusion [5]

1990's

1993; MIT patents "Three Dimensional Printing Techniques" which is comparable to a regular 2D printer's methodology. [6]

1995; Z Corporation acquires a technology license from MIT and begins building 3D printers [7]

1996; The term "3D Printer" is first used to address rapid prototyping machines [8]

1996; First major release of 3D printers from Z Corp, Stratasys, and 3D Systems [9]

2004

February; Adrian Bowyer publishes the idea for a self replicating 3D printer: The RepRap About

2005

March 9th; Spectrum Z-510 is the first high definition 3D color printer to be manufactured [10]

March 23rd; The RepRap blog started [[11]]

June 2nd; Reprap project discussed in "The Machine that can copy anything" by Simon Hooper on CNN.com [[12]]

October 6th; Arduino is released [13]

2006

February; 'Neil Gershenfeld on Fab Labs' a TED talk about a (much higher cost) mobile fabrication laboratory, and enabling consumers to produce products for a "market of one". [14]

2007

2008

February 9; The Darwin printer is able to print more than half of its own parts, thus self-replication is successful [15]

June 4; The Telegraph releases a science article about self-replicating robots leading into the RepRap. Parts of the article discuss the possible implications and advantages of a low cost 3D printer that can replicate its own parts and evolve. [[16]]

2009

October 2; A second generation design, known as "Mendel", prints its first part [[17]]

2010

April 30; 'The disruptive future of printing' an article by Bill Thompson of the BBC about RepRap and its future. [18]

November 10; 'It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing...' a whitepaper by Michael Weinberg of Public Knowledge discussing the legal implications of widespread 3D printing. [19]

December 20th; 3d printing: the state of the art. [20]

December 31st; 11 3d printing predictions for the year 2011. [21]

2011

January 12; 'The Wow Factor of 3-D Printing,' an article in the New York Times about consumer 3-D printers. It mentions Reprap, MakerBot, and Bits From Bytes. [22]

January 19th; 3d printing now in Titanium! [23]

March 23; Handheld Vacuum Cleaner 3D Printed [24]

April; Copyright questions as 3d printing comes of age. [25]

June 8th; Bre Pettis, founder of Makerbot Industries, makes a guest appearance on the Colbert Report discussing the relevance of 3D printing in modern society [[26]]

July 11th; Geekteach: 3D Printing In the Classroom [27]

August 16th; How 3D printing will revolutionize everything it touches [28]

August 23rd; Makerbot announces that they are accepting $10 million in startup money[[29]]

Fall 2011; Open Hybrid Mendel Design is tested at Penn State University Park Campus.

September 16; BBC News article on a new application of 3D printing 'Artificial Blood Vessels Created on a 3D Printer' [[30]]

September 20; Article on the Make blog about a working AR-15 magazine on thingiverse. [31]

September 20; 3d printer for kids in the works! [32]

October 3rd; Albensi Labs use 3D printing for dental restoration making the turnaround time drop from 7 days to 2 days. [33]

November 14th; 3D printing: coming to a library near you [34]

Unknown; "Academic paper released investigating the effects of structure and orientation on the strength of 3D printed materials. [35]

2012

January 25; Physibles @ The Pirate Bay [36]

February 6; Transplant jaw made by 3D printer claimed as first [37]

March 6; The CADspan Plugin for Google SketchUp allows generation of solid, 3D printable STL files [38]

March 10; 3D printing from an Android device [39]

April 15; Integrated 3D-printed reactionware for chemical synthesis and analysis [40]

May 6; STEMulate Learning integrates 3D printing into classroom [41]

May 21; Working Lathe Made with 3D Printing [42]

June 15; Guitar manufacturing is revolutionized by 3D printing [43]

July 2; Possibilities of printing dinosaur fossils [44]

July 4; Researchers create artificial liver from 3D printed sugar lattice [45]

July 6; New Innovations in printing Aluminum [46]

July 7; Burritobot: Mexican Cuisine and 3D Printing [47]

July 11; Building Planes with Giant 3D Printers [48]

July 12; The next generation RepRap prints PLA at tremendously high speeds [49]

July 16; 3D printed keys used to hack high security handcuffs [50]

July 17; 3D Printers In The Library; Toward a FabLab in the Academic Library [51]

July 18; 3D printing services being offered at universities for the first time [52]

July 22; Printing out your own prescription meds [53]

July 25; 3D printing market set to hit $3 billion by 2018 [54]

July 26; World's first 3D Printed Gun [55]

July 30; Printing Unammed Aerial Vehicles [56]

August 6; 3D Printed Exoskeleton aids in Arm Usage [57]

August 8; Focus Feature's stop motion movie ParaNorman uses 3D printed facial parts to "push facial performance to new levels" [58]

August 17; Printed Meat [59]

August 29; NASA funds Tethers Unlimited Inc. to work on its SpiderFab orbital 3D printer [60]

September 19; Software to Detect Stress in Objects Before Print [61]

September 21; 3D Print Wood with Laywood Filament [62]

September 27;3D Printer Form 1 Gets 6X Its $100K Funding Goal On Kickstarter… In One Day [63]

October 1; 3-D Printer Company Seizes Machine From Desktop Gunsmith [64]

October 3; Army researchers use cutting edge 3D printers [65]

October 5; Seeing Is Believing, Disney Crafts 3D Printed Optics [66]

October 10; CNBC Reports on Various Entities utilizing Bio-3D printing [67]

October 10; 3D Printing (Additive Manufacturing) Is Turning the Impossible Into the Possible [68]

October 18; New Patent Could Saddle 3D Printers With DRM [69]

October 18; Spice Up Your 3-D Prints With Custom Plastics [70]

October 18; Guitar Printer Makes Functioning Instrument [71]

October 19; The Future of Higher Education: Reshaping Universities Through 3D Printing [72]

October 19; Formlabs FORM 1 high-resolution 3D printer [73]

October 22; 3D Bio-Printing Proposed to Send Vaccines and Medicine Via Email [74]

October 23; UVA Undergraduates Print 3D Plane [75]

October 25; EFF Fights To Protect 3D Printers From Illegitimate Patents [76]

October 25;With ‘Safe Haven,’ Desktop Weaponeers Resume Work on 3D-Printed Guns [77]

October 30; 3D printing- a new industrial revolution [78]

November 2; Wired CEO Chris Anderson leaves Wired to start 3D Robotics company [79]

November 4; Turning your thoughts into actual 3D objects [80]

November 9; 3D-Printed Rockets Help Propel NASA's Space Shuttle Launch [81]

November 9; Researchers at Purdue develop a program to automatically tweak designs for 3D printed parts to improve strength [82]

November 12; Portable 3D Printer for the Military [83]

November 12; 3D-Printing Photo Booth Makes You Into an Action Figure[84] [85]

November 12; Scientists reveal new insights on nano 3D printing[86]

November 12; Voxeljet 3D printer used to produce Skyfall's Aston Martin stunt double[87]

November 14; Minecraft Creations Become Real! [88]

November 19; 3D Printer Powered by Heart Cells [89]

November 22; Scientists develop 3D tissue printer that prints cartilage[90]

November 23; EDSGN 497D is Mentioned in an Article in Onward State[91]

November 24; GE Is So Stoked About 3D Printing, They're Using It To Make Parts For Jet Engines[92]

November 26; 3D printers to print out electronics in the near future[93]

November 26; Fancy 3D printer spits out 'replacement parts' for humans[94]

November 26; 3D Printing Satellites[95]

November 27; Customized Toy Records [96]

November 28; Virginia Tech: Interactive 3-D printing station [97] --Nop5031 16:45, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

November 29; Staples to offer 'Easy 3D' printing service [98]

November 29; 3D printers could use Moon or Mars rocks as raw materials [99]