3D Printing Unpeeled: $349 3D Scanner, $100m for digitization and $1.2m Hypersonics

Creality has released a new 3D scanner, the CR-Scan Ferret which will. cost around $349.

UArizona engineers have secured a $1.2M grant for Hypersonics Office of Naval Research's Defense University Research Instrumentation Program which will augment the
Arizona Research Center for Hypersonics. Lead by professors Andrew Wessman and Sammy Tin the grant will be used to buy a gas atomizer, an LPBF system, X-ray diffractometer and a vacuum furnace. The team will use the equipment to make alloys for hypersonics.

The National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR) at Wichita State University (WSU) got a $100 million
Modernization of Integrated Technology for Ground Systems (MINT-GS) award, given out by the Materials Division, Advanced Manufacturing, part of the US Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Ground Vehicle Systems Center (GVSC). The five year deal will see the university qualify LPBF and DED materials and processes for ground vehicles.