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Most Read Articles from Last Week – July 12th

Felfil Evolves Open Source Extruders & Recyclable 3D Printing
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by a young Italian collective of designers called Collettivo Cocomeri. They had developed a very interesting, fully open source, desktop extruder called Felfil. Unsurp…


Free 3D Printable of the Week: Unconditional Surrender
Uploaded on Sketchfab as a 3D scan by CEO Alban Denoyel, the sculpture Unconditional Surrender by Seward Johnson is a tangible recreation of both a famous photograph and less well-known photograph rep…


3Dponics Releases 3D Printable Hydroponics Kit for Legal Weed
When I met Michael Golubev, CEO of 3Dponics, at 3D Print Week this year, I was taken by both his sincerity and drive. What started as a simple concept, an open source platform for easy urban gardenin…



I know that, coming on the heels of the Inside 3D Printing Conference & Expo Seoul just last week, everyone may be thinking that there wouldn’t be much news coming out of Korea so soon, but you wo…


Slic3r’s New Release Experiments with Cutting Edge 3D Printing Features
Since it is a purely open source, community-based project, slicing software Slic3r sometimes passes a little under the radar. Being a not-for-profit independent project, it naturally does not have a d…


Formfutura Launches New CarbonFil 3D Printing Filament
What kind of filament do you use for 3D printing? Do you use filament at all? Most of the people I know working with filament-based 3D printers rely on PLA and ABS. Everyone loves Ninjaflex, but there…


LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of July 4th
Another week, another round of LinkBits: your source for brief bits of news from the 3D printing industry. The industry is booming and so are we, so here is a list of stories that we couldn’t quite fi…


Boulton 3D Printed Eyewear Eyes DLP Consumer Products
On 3DPI, we have written many times about 3D printed eyewear. Glasses and sunglasses represent an ideal entry-point into sellable 3D printed consumer products, as they are too complex for everyone to …


Ahead of Comic-Con, Amazon Lets You 3D Print Your Favorite Video Game Characters
To celebrate Comic-Con which begins tomorrow in San Diego, California, Amazon, in partnership agreement with Sandboxr, has just announced that their 3D Printed Products store will offer 35 video game …


3D Printed Knee Implants Get Running on NASDAQ with ConforMIS IPO
Another 3D printing company has jumped into the public sector! Wait. That’s not right. Another 3D printing company has gone public! This time, it’s another medical tech company. But ConforMIS Inc. (N…