Space Farming with AstroGro's 3D Printed Smart Pod

Astronauts don’t exactly have the best food choices in space. Albeit, it has improved over the years from tiny cubes, freeze-dried powders, and oozy liquids to include almost anything that we eat on earth that can be reconstituted, re-hydrated, irradiated…

Print2Taste Emerges with the Bocusini Food 3D Printer

The field of food 3D printing is only just beginning, but, with its potential to create personally-tailored dishes for eaters, both in terms of nutrients and taste, could yield a completely different way of eating in the future.  Though the…

3D Printing Low-Cost Tools for Organic Farmers in the Developing World

The lab of Michigan Tech’s Dr. Joshua Pearce is one of the most admirable 3D printing-related research outfits that I’m familiar with.  If the Pearce Research Group isn’t proving just how cost-effective 3D printing can be for scientific studies or…

Formfutura's New HDglass 3D Printing Filament

We raise our 3D printed glass to the latest filament to hit the 3D printing market. Last week, we saw the launch of an electric filament and, now, glass. Netherlands-based Formfutura, has launched their new filament range called HDglass, a modified…

Lunchbot Gives Bento Lunches a 3D Printed Flair

Based on my own experience, Japanese culture has a flair for transforming the mundane, like an ordinary lunch, into something aesthetically pleasing and down right cute.  Yoshihiro Asano, a student at Keiko University, found an automated method for spicing up…

World's 1st 3D Food Printing Conference Launches April 21

Some may be excited for 3D Print Week, hitting New York City next week, but something even more savory will be taking place in the Netherlands on April 21: the 3D Food Printing Conference.  As far as I’m aware, this…

LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of April 4

Another week, another round of LinkBits: your source for brief bits of news from the 3D printing industry. The industry is booming and so are we, so here is a list of stories that we couldn’t quite fit into our…

Miguel Valenzuela Spills the Batter on PancakeBot's Food Printing Technology

3D printing is more delicious than ever. With more than 1,000 Kickstarter backers, PancakeBot is the world’s first 3D pancake printer. “It’s a project I did for my kids to get them inspired. It’s a family project,” Miguel Valenzuela said about…

What Would You 3D Print with Purement, a PLA that Kills Germs?

Back in March of last year, we reported on a small Korean plastics company that was working on a new PLA/Metal filament for 3D printing. They were making great progress, but hadn’t perfected their formula yet, so they went back…

PancakeBot Food Printer Blows Past Goal on Kickstarter!

Regardless of how you feel about eating 3D printed food, and no matter how much everyone wants the r—-ator from Star Trek, PankcakeBot is showing that there is serious interest in making and eating 3D printed food. PancakeBot’s Kickstarter campaign has…