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Most Read Articles from Last Week – July 13

3DPI Publishes The 3D Printing Beginner’s Guide in More Accessible Format

A few weeks ago, 3DPI published “The Beginners Guide to 3D Printing” — a comprehensive and wholly free resource — via 3dprintingindustry.com. This online publication has been extremely well received, …


3D Printer CreatorBot Launches on Kickstarter–Promising Commercial Grade, Large-Scale Builds

There are very few 3D Printers on the market that are durable enough for you to stand on. The CreatorBot, built by a dynamic father and son team, Tom and Ben Kilar, is engineered to last, has large pr…


Itseez Turns your iPad into a Powerful 3D Scanner

Using the Structure Sensor the new Itseez3d app promises to turn your iPad into a high-powered consumer 3D scanner. The Structure 3D scanner from Occipital is a great personal 3D scanner, however i…


ProtoKor 2014 – A Surprise Show In South Korea Revealing Some new 3D Printers

This past weekend we attended another trade show in Seoul, South Korea. This one was called the “ProtoKor” show and by the name, we figured it would be mostly for product development and prototyping, …


3DP Curriculum Tinkerine U Wants to Bring 3D Printing to Every Classroom

Canadian 3D printer company Tinkerine has just announced Tinkerine U an educational program that aims to put 3D printers and their robust 3D printing curriculum into every school in North America. Of …


Mota the 99$ 3D Printer Launches on Kickstarter Only to be Cancelled As it Nears Its Funding Goal

The race to the bottom continued this week as the Mota 3D Printer Kickstarter offered early supporters a 3D printer for only $99. But after quickly selling out of all 50 $99 printers the campaign was …


Is This a Future Billionaire? 15-Year-Old Files Patent for His Own 3D Printer

The democratization of technology that has occurred over the past twenty years or so has enabled greater numbers of people to program new apps and build new devices that can increase their quality of …


Q3D has Sold 1000 3D printing units. Will Colour Frames Help Sell 1000 More?

One thousand units in less than two years of operations may not be mass market numbers but when you add up all the small companies selling around these numbers of their 3D printing systems it appears …


The Coming Ecosystem of 3D Printing: Part 4

A Network for 3D Printers So far in his article series that considers the evolving 3D printing ecosystem, Ivan Pope has introduced the concept, documented the content arm of that ecosystem and looked…


3D Printed Italian Sunglasses with a View on the World

We often take it for granted that 3D printing will change manufacturing by making many products more customizable. In the end, though, which are the products that are leading this revolution today? Sh…