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Most Read Articles from Last Week – November 2

Sintratec Desktop Laser Sintering 3D Printer Approaches Crowdfunding Release
Last month, we reported on the Sintratec 3D printer, a desktop laser sintering machine with a price tag of €3990. The Swiss startup behind the machine is moving closer to the 3D printer’s crowdfunding…


The Dooblicator Mobile Scanning System Is a Portal on a 3D Printed World of Opportunities
The news is that Doob Group AG, a German company specializing in 3D technologies, is launching the Dooblicator, which the company “dubbed” as the “World’s First Mobile, 3D Photoprogrammetric Scanning …


Two Extruders, One 3D Print Head from E3D
3D printer hardware company E3D is testing their new extruder with dual hotends for multi- color and material printing and they’ve shared the results of their first print. The all-metal, high-temperat…


Full Color 3D Printed Selfies with Just One Photo
A new startup, Ustatue, is offering an easy-to-use service to create quick 3D printed selfie statues and bobbleheads, with only a single, high quality picture. Currently they offer over fifty body sty…


All 3D Printed Parts Served to You on a Silver Build Plate
Here’s a useful tool for all of you 3D printer users out there! When 3D printing multiple parts in a single build, it can be a real pain in the extruder to lay them out to maximize your printbed. Grég…


It’s Not the Size of Your 3D Printed Destiny Gun Replica…Who Are We Kidding, Bigger is Always Better
At least bigger is better when 3D printed replica guns are involved. Case in point this massive four and a half foot Thunderlord exotic machine gun from the hit Bungie videogame Destiny. The prop gun …


New Kinect Adapter Gives 3D Builder Full-Color 3D Scanning Powers for 3D Printing
With a number of open source and commercial apps for 3D scanning with the Microsoft Kinect, it has become a favorite tool for DIY 3D printed portrait booths. When the new Xbox One Kinect was to be re…


Sarah Hoit on Material ConneXion’s New Directory of 3D Printing Materials
Most of us think of libraries as repositories of traditional books (ink on bound paper) and their digital analogs — information content that is displayed on screens. Material ConneXion Inc. (MCX) is a…


Slic3r Creator Alessandro Ranellucci Discusses the Future of His 3D Printing Software
The biggest challenge for any single aspect of the 3D printing industry is trying to unify and standardize its many faces. In my opinion, there is not, and there has never been, an industrial sector t…


Who is Daegun Tech? … And Why Should You Care?
It may come as no surprise that the biggest companies that manufacture 3D printers in Korea are mostly situated in the Seoul area. As the nation’s capital city, and technological heart, a majority of…