This next post is very interesting. Carbon Fiber reinforced PLA etc.Starts out with new materials in a kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1375236253/proto-pasta-gourmet-food-for-your-3d-printer When you check the backgrounds of the people involved you find some aerospace: http://www.protoplant.com/lockheed-martin
This next bit of news comes from our friends down under in Brisbane, Australia. It's another starting point project that has wide applications if it works as advertised. It comes in the form of a Kickstarter http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cartesianco/the-ex1-rapid-3d-printing-of-circuit-boardsThe EX¹ makes printing circuits as quick and easy as printing a photo - allowing you to print on the material of your choice.
Epson won't make a consumer 3D printer, but promises big, industrial ones within five years>>Usui wants the company to be able to print "anything" and reckons that could take around five years from now. And anything really means anything: The president mused on printing cars, which would make that eventual manufacturing hardware a fair bit bigger than a Cube 3. >
Not sure if the pizza printer video made it up here yet so...*snip*http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/24/5342180/watch-this-3d-printer-make-pizza-fit-for-astronautsMechanical engineer Anjan Contractor won a $125,000 grant last year to build a prototype 3D printer designed to print food for astronauts on long missions. Contractor's goal was to print a pizza with his open-source RepRap Mendel 3D printer — and it looks like he succeeded.
Carbon fiber printerStory: http://www.popularmechanics.com/_mobile/technology/gadgets/news/new-3d-printer-by-markforged-can-print-with-carbon-fiber-16428727Site: http://markforged.com
740lbf regeneratively cooled 3d printed expander cycle liquid oxygen/propane rocket engine that will power upper stage of a two stage nanosatellite launcher.