Over breakfast one morning Grant Schindler’s young son asked him for a remote control car, so he suggested that they use their 3D printer to make one instead. Grant’s son got his toy car, but he also…
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4th Graders Discover New Species of 3D Printed Insects in Their Classroom
Almost a million different species of insects have been identified and catalogued living in almost every imaginable habitat on the planet. Clark Barnett’s 4th grade class just discovered a few more of…
Virginia Tech’s AM Grand Challenge Dreams Big
Virginia Tech’s DREAMS (Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems) Lab hopes to encourage 3D printing in young would-be engineers, as well as spread knowledge about additive m…
America’s Universities Are Getting Optomec’s Metal 3D Printers
On top of being one of Shane’s favorite metal 3D printing technologies, Optomec’s LENS (Laser Engineering Net Shaping) process is one of America’s favourite 3D printing technologies too, it seems. The…
Teen Crime Solvers Use 3D Scanning and 3D Printing in Hi-Tech Lab
CSI has kids (and adults) excited about hi-tech crime solving. I know this from the years I spent giving life skills classes to foster and probation youth. Every class would have at least one or two s…
IBM & SwissLitho Introduce Nanoscale Tech With an Amazing Demo
While it’s not technically 3D printing rather 3D carving, it’s still a pretty amazing advancement. IBM developed a nano scale process that is capable of chiselling a 3-dimensional pattern into pliable…
Sharebot Academy Now Targeting FabLabs with New Kiwi-3D Printer
Sharebot, the largest cartesian FFF/FDM 3D printer manufacturer in Italy has seen booming demand lately. They have recently stepped up to close to 120 Sharebot NG’s (their second generation mach…
Apply For Fellowships with the Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute
In the US the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University will be hosting the Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute (AMRI) for fellowships again this year. For Summer 2014 there is an open cal…
Starting A 3D Printing Business: A Student’s Perspective
There are many intersecting sectors that 3D printing businesses encompass. Many students are now looking towards 3D printing as a business opportunity, a nascent realm where potentiality outweighs the…
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…