Among the many promises of 3D printing, in the realm of wide scale adoption, two stand above the rest: personalized manufacturing and distributed manufacturing. Sometimes the two are considered one an…
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World Maker Faire New York 2014 Is Coming Back To Town (Part 2)
Yesterday I covered the work of the good folks at Maker Media (MM) that has resulted in a national — and indeed global — “maker” phenomenon. As the movement heads back to NYC in a couple of months for…
3D Printer David Shows His Stuff Ahead of Kickstarter Launch
For some time now, 3D printer startup Sculptify has been slowly teasing the release of their pellet-crunching 3D printer, David. In fact, until last month, we didn’t even know his name was Davi…
World Maker Faire New York 2014 Is Coming Back To Town (Part 1)
The folks at Maker Media, Inc. (MM of Sebastopol, CA) are as “hands-on” as their eTinker, 3DPer and DigiFabber constituents in the Maker Movement. (I think MM should get the lion’s share of the credit…
Will CraftBot Rival The Biggest 3D Printer Crowdfunding Campaigns?
2013 and 2014 has seen a mushrooming of the number of companies incepting the manufacture of prosumer 3D printers. Despite what some would consider an increasing rate of market saturation for the rang…
A Review: Nottingham International Conference on AM & 3D Printing 2014
My annual sojourn to Nottingham was this past week, to attend the International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D Printing (3DP), hosted by the Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing …
Sciaky's Giant 3D Metal Printers Available for Sale
Attending a couple of 3D printing events directed at the aerospace and defense industries, I heard from Lockheed Martin representatives that had been working with additive manufacturing for some time.…
MakerBot: TakerBot or Give-A-Lot?
China is a country that is renown for its manufacturing capacity. It is also a country of disproportionately much lower innovation than other economies with large manufacturing output. The cloning of …
Shapeways Winners Produce Winning 3D Printing Marketing Tool
There’s hardly anything we humans like as much as a highly public, audience-drawing, skill-spotlighting, award-presenting contest — especially if we’re among the baying contestants. Each of us with a …
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 …