What is a design engineer? Here is a brief video that summarises the characteristics of a design engineer. The idea is to educate anyone new to the topic to the iterative design process and what it re…
Milwaukee 3D Printing Meetup Group
As more and more people are buying or building their first 3D printers, the community around likeminded people gets organized to share ideas and experiences. One of these groups is US based Milwaukee …
Additive Manufacturing With Metal
Sciaky, Inc., a Chicago based subsidiary of Phillips Service Industries (PSI) announced their latest innovation on large scale part manufacturing technology and a video on how it works. Sciaky’s Direc…
Colour Blending with RepRap 3D Printer
This is an excellent video show case from RichRap, on how to mix and blend colour for plastic filament or different materials with a RepRap 3D printer. The set up is 3 individually connected extruders…
Big is Beautiful
Here’s a lighthearted reminder for the beginning of the new year on where we stand in terms of the size of the heavy objects that can be 3D printed today. The video below shows how to print the …
3D Printed Parts for a Life Size Iron Man Suit
Using 3D printers is becoming more popular amongst the hobbyist community building models and constructing their creations – even when they don’t have their own 3D printers at home. This video from XR…
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…
Executive Interview – Fried Vancraen
Fried Vancraen is the founder and CEO of Materialise, the Belgian 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing service, software and medical company. Fried is a tireless and true evangelist when it comes to…
Executive Interview – Peter Weijmarshausen
3D Printing Industry’s Executive Interview Series continues with Peter Weijmarshausen, CEO of Shapeways. Peter shared his views on past and current experiences within his world of 3D printing se…
Executive Interview – Bre Pettis
Bre Pettis is CEO of Makerbot, the Brooklyn based 3D printer manufacturer that brought the world the Cupcake, Thing-o-matic and more recently the Replicator2 3D printers. He is also, quite possibly, T…