Factory Signal Briefing — May 24, 2026
Advanced Manufacturing · 3D Printing · CNC · Robotics · AI Vision
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Creality goes public: a $177 million bet on the future of consumer 3D printing
A decade of growth, one long road to the IPO Shenzhen Creality 3D Technology, the world’s largest consumer 3D printing company by cumulative shipments, has officially launched its IPO on …
Fitasy brings single-shoe purchasing to its 3D printed footwear platform
Fitasy, an Indianapolis-based custom-fit footwear company, has updated its on-demand production platform to accept orders for individual shoes through its website, fitasy.com. The option…
Hadassah doctors rebuild and lengthen leg using 3D printed implants
Doctors at Hadassah Ein Kerem in Jerusalem have reconstructed a patient’s hip joint and femur using two custom 3D printed implants, after a rare condition caused her bones to progressively …
Who’s The Biggest In 3D Printing, May 24, 2026
Once again we take a look at the valuations of the major 3D printing companies over the past week.
Anthropic may keep supplying Claude to the NSA despite being flagged as a supply chain risk by the Pentagon
Anthropic will likely keep supplying AI models to the NSA despite being labeled a "supply chain risk." Intelligence agencies lack Nvidia's latest Grace Blackwell chips, and Anthropic's…
ByteDance study finds that asking LMMs questions beats making it transcribe text for long document training
ByteDance Seed shows that a 7B model can answer questions on long, image-heavy documents more reliably than much larger models, even when documents are four times longer than anything it saw…
Deepmind's Hassabis sees humanity "in the foothills of the singularity" while LeCun says current AI isn't intelligent
Yann LeCun says current AI systems aren't genuinely intelligent. Demis Hassabis thinks humanity is already "standing in the foothills of the singularity." And Gemini co-lead Oriol Vinyals…
Designing a Printable Cyclone Dust Separator for 99.95% Efficiency
Filtering sawdust out of an airflow is easy until you try to do it with cyclone separation, but the obvious appeal here is of course not spending a fortune on …read more
Researchers let Claude Code discover AI scaling algorithms that humans probably wouldn't have designed
Researchers from UMD, Google, Meta, and other institutions use AutoTTS to let a coding agent independently discover control algorithms for AI reasoning. The algorithm it found cuts compute…
Sortera uses physical AI to double capacity in a Tennessee sorting facility
With the new facility, Sortera has increased its annual processing capacity to an estimated 240 million lbs.
Why you shouldn't leave model selection on default in Copilot, Gemini and other AI tools
When analyzing data, Microsoft Copilot invents country differences where none exist. Mathematician Adam Kucharski fed the tool identical datasets with different country labels, and Copilot…
I tried Amazon’s Bee wearable and am both intrigued and slightly creeped out
Like other AI wearables, Amazon's Bee offers an odd combination of convenience and privacy anxiety.
First 24+ hr print failed at 97%
Score 1493 · 180 comments
Major bummer to wake up to what I hoped would be a finished print, but instead got a Mando mask with a toupee. Any thoughts on what went wrong? Printed on Bambu A1 with Sunlu PLA+
Where can I find this/a similar model?
Score 1092 · 58 comments
Well I’m bald and for obvious reasons I need this. I couldn’t find the model though. Any tips? EDIT: As further information it was printed in two parts that connect via magnets I believe.
how do you prevent plastic from getting into the threads when installing heat set inserts?
Score 325 · 76 comments
my current project requires threaded holes that allow the bolt to pass completely through the printed part but every time I have tried I get plastic creeping upwards into the threads. I have…
Brim not touching print?
Score 220 · 75 comments
0.8mm nozzle and 0.1mm gap between the print and brim. Since there IS a gap, how is the brim preventing warping since it is not physically touching the print? Am I being thick or is it not…
Benchy shipwreck i made :D
Score 446 · 5 comments
I was using my benchy for target practice and then realised it kinda looked like a shipwreck so i painted it and put some moss on it
How to seal a "door" like this?
Score 92 · 65 comments
Hello, I designed this container which I need to be airtight at normal room air pressure when closed. I thought putting a seal all around the "door" on the red and yellow part would solve…
I designed an assistive key turner for users with reduced hand function
Score 99 · 42 comments
TwistAble facilitates turning keys by allowing users to utilize wrist or arm strength instead of their fingers. If I could get some feedback on this device to at would be great. Thanks…
First attempt at a faux ceramic glaze
Score 182 · 18 comments
I saw some jade breezeway tiles for sale and a few people attempting to 3d print replicas. The finish seemed to be the most difficult part. I modeled the file, printed it in teal PETG, and…
Cousin gave me a random printer he had laying around as a graduation gift
Score 113 · 21 comments
Hello, I’m new here and I can’t sleep tonight so I thought I might work on this! My cousin earlier today dropped this off to me and I have no idea where to start or what I’m doing. This is…