We've seen a growing number 3D printers that use additive manufacturing technology to form objects one layer at a time, usually from resin or ABS plastic. But Markus Kayser, an MA student at the Royal ...

Show RCA 2011: German designer Markus Kayser has built a 3D-printing machine that uses sunlight and sand to make glass objects in the desert. Called The Solar Sinter, the device uses a large Fresnel ...

image: Hockaday used a 2-meter diameter dish-type heliostat that generates highly focused intense heat at 955°C within a small solar furnace containing sample ores about a meter above the heliostat. A ...

Imagine a contraption that could create actual three-dimensional objects just by sitting smack dab in the middle of the Sahara desert. 3D printing is already almost unfathomably futuristic (not to ...

3D Printers are becoming more and more accessible with DIY models available to help print and create your own objects. However, Markus Kayser has taken the 3D printer concept a little further and ...

How can we solve the shortage of energy and substances that we will visit in the future? That's why we focused on the possibility of sand and sunlight overflowing in the Sahara "Solar Sinter ...

*This has just got to be the aw3som3st fab in the world. Almost sort of actually functions in the real world, apparently. "Amongst the wonderful collection of work currently on show at the Royal ...

Where would we be without the world's graduate art projects? In the case of Markus Kayser's Solar Sinter, we might never have seen the day when a solar-powered 3D printer would turn Saharan sand into ...

The technology the Economist called "wizardry" back in 2008 just got a bit more magical. Using sand as the only ingredient, an MA student at London's Royal College of Art has developed a solar-powered ...

No matter if you've used one or not, you've got to admit that 3D printers are pretty darn awesome, especially the self-replicating ones that extrude molten plastic and the shoebox-sized versions that ...

London design student Markus Kayser has taken playing with a magnifying glass to a whole new level with his solar-powered 3D sand-printer. The "Solar Sinter" uses photovoltaic cells to provide power ...