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3D Printed Celtic Knots Tie Tradition to New Technology
In describing the Celtic inspiration for a new app called Sertae, the imaterialise site puts it best: “There is neither beginning nor end in beautifully intertwined Celtic knots. Their endless f…
SyncFab and the Rise of Local Distributed Manufacturing
The Maker movement has rejuvenated a love of manufacturing in the United States. Coupled with 3D printing and low cost CNC milling and laser cutting, some hope that we’ll also see a reshoring of labou…
Nervous System Upgrades Kinematics with 3D Printed Gold
Unlike Shapeways’ recent announcement about 3D printed products made golden with lost wax casting, design duo Nervous System has 3D printed the gold itself. The studio, which recently developed…
Make Image A Reality: Family Jewels Ready for 3D Printing
American Pearl, a jewellery company operating out of New York, can use a photo of jewellery and create a 3D model ready to print. Their service ranges in price depending on the material in each piece,…
Prixel Recreates Astonishingly Accurate Brushstrokes And Hues of Paintings with 3DP
Russian startup Prixel offers 3D printed versions of close to 50 paintings complete with mimicked brushstrokes. The faux paintings stand apart from simple 2D prints offered by standard retail. Prixel …
3D Knitting for Wearable Technology
3D printed wearables are shifting from the plastic pieces of questionable comfort worn by runway models to the soft sorts of materials that everyday consumers might actually have an interest in. This …
Time Is on Your Side: Create Your Own Pocket Watch Heirloom with 3D Printing
Bringing some old world class to the new age, Matthew “Rick” Shaw has provided instructions and downloadable prints for a 3D printed pocket watch. All of the gears and plates can be printed if compati…
It’s Not Even Fair: At $50, 3D Printed Cyborg Beast Trumps $40,000 Counterpart!
Often on this site (and other forums for 3D printing news) the focus lies solely on 3D printing (with good reason, it’s all in the name), but this story, while not digressing very far, presents a very…
It All Pours Out: Missouri High School Seniors Solve Ketchup’s First Drop with 3D Printing
These science experiments in high school sound a lot more fascinating than the titration experiments I endured extensively. Two students, Tyler Richards and Jonathan Thompson, took their scientific me…