Richard Gain is a doctor but also a self-confessed lover of puzzles. Richard has had a life-long interest in collecting, making and solving mechanical puzzles and has now established his own small puz…
Ford Using 3D Printing For Prototyping
Ford is one of the latest car manufacturers to come out of the tech closet – and to showcase how 3D printing can be used to make prototyping faster and more cost-effective. In a time where the price t…
3D Print Your Kids an Ant Farm
Dizingof is a designer with considerable talent and an even greater passion for 3D printing. Traditionally, his design work is focused on beautiful sculptures and designs based on Math Art. In a sligh…
3D Printing Satellites
When we talk about the satellites orbiting the earth the image that comes to most people’s mind often resembles a small-scale space station with reflective mirror panels and antennae sticking out. The…
Incredible but True: 3D Printed Lamp Powers Itself
3D printing technology often brings applications that showcase the most incredible forms or the most complicated functions. Rarely are we confronted by an application that fullfils both — beautifully.…
2012 – Top 5 3D Printing Applications by Eetu Kuneinen
Selecting the winner for my top 5 was actually easier than I thought. 1. Recycling – Yes, I know it’s a wide area to cover, and there were so many innovations around recycling 3DP applications d…
2012 – Top 5 3D Printing Applications by Ari Honka
1. Design work Design is a broad area and cannot easily be classified as an application, however for me 3D printing offers designers free reign for the first time in history. Ever since humans started…
2012 – Top 5 3D Printing Applications by Rachel Park
This year has seen me traverse a rather topsy-turvy journey professionally, but it’s been a blast and I feel privileged and still very happy to have a minor role in what is one of the most exciting an…
Personal Top 5 3D Printed Apps for 2012 by Juho Vesanto
Today is my turn to showcase my personal top-5 3D printing applications for this year. And that is not the easiest task – considering all of the cool stuff that has emerged this year. I chose a …
U3DPFO Spotted — That’s an Unidentified 3D Printed Flying Object
Japan is sometimes a source of strange innovations – at least from a western perspective. The latest — featuring 3D printing of course — came to us via Shapeways and is surely fun to watch in the vide…