3D printing wooden material has just taken a leap forward with LAYWOO-D3, a printable ‘wood’ for reprap-based 3D printers. The new FDM filament is a wood/polymer composite (also referred t…
Materialising 3D Printed Sculptures
Art aficionados are in for a real treat following the opening of an exiting new exhibition in Belgium at the prestigious Gallo-Romeins Museum in the city of Tongeren. Nick Ervinck, who is a rising sta…
Eventorbot on Kickstarter
Eventorbot is an open source, self-assembly 3D printer created by Duy Dang from Franfort IL and it launched as a Kickstarter project a few days ago, with the aim of raising USD25,000. 34 people have a…
NASA Using 3D Printing for Self Assembling Space Station
NASA’s latest project — “SpiderFab” — is focused on the use of 3D printer technology for future missions in order to allow the spaceship to self-assemble parts in orbit. This latest news comes after a…
3D Printed Microstructures Produced in Seconds
Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a new process that can fabricate microscale 3D sturctures out of soft biocompatible hydrogels. The aim of this new process is to dev…
NAMII Launched Official Website
NAMII, the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, inaugurated on August 16, 2012, and driven by the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM), announced yesterday …
BMW 3D Printed Wheelchairs with the Latest F1 Technology
3D printing provided a new solution for the British paralympic basketball team as they rolled to the court in brand new wheelchairs with a hi-tech foam seat, designed by BMW engineers. The seat utiliz…
South African Research Centre Acquires Optomec LENS Additive Manufacturing System
Optomec announced that the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has acquired an Optomec Laser Engineering Net Shaping system, which is used for metal 3D printing applica…
3D Printed Cases for iPhone 5
The long awaited launch of the latest iPhone took place last night and some companies were well prepared for the launch by offering related products and accessories for this highly anticipated new dev…
HYREL 3D Printer Raising Funds Fast at Kickstarter
HYREL 3D Printer is one of the recent 3D printing projects trying to raise funds through Kickstarter. It has only been live since 6th September and is already backed up to 28,478 USD of its 50K goal. …