In development by Christoph Bader and Dominik Kolb, SimpSymm is a program for the Microsoft Surface Pro 2 tablet that takes a simple geometry and, through a series of “generations”, turns it into a sy…
3DPI.TV – Optomec's Metal 3D Printers to US Universities
Optomec’s Laser Engineering Net Shaping or LENS process is one of America’s favourite 3D printing technologies. The Albuquerque metal and electronics industrial manufacturing specialist was selected l…
3DPI.TV – Create a 3D Printed Army with IMAGIMOD
The toy industry is proving to be an increasingly popular playground for 3D printing. A new start-up company, IMAGIMOD, is entering this fray with the aim of “Upgrading the State of Play.” To date, th…
3DPI.TV – Understanding Diabetes with 3D Printed Protein Models
Brooklyn-based Biologic Models has been experiencing quite a bit of growth in the demand for its physical models of proteins and molecules. The company produces a wide range of 3D printed models speci…
3DPI.TV – 3D Printing Network PRINTR Aiming for Accessibility
3D printing has already made a huge impact in the world of manufacturing and design, but the promised personal/home market has as of yet failed to fully materialise. Dutch startup PRINTR looks to chan…
3DPI.TV – 3D Systems' 3D Metal Printers Popular Among Tyre Manufacturers
Additive manufacture of complex objects in metal is increasing, and the tyre industry is seemingly a major beneficiary. Since its acquisition of Phenix Systems, 3D Systems reports that it has shipped …
3DPI.TV – Life-Sized 3D Printed Portrait by Cosmo Wenman
If you’re wealthy or important enough to have a sculpture made of your likeness, Cosmo Wenman is the ideal person for the job. He’s proven himself to be an expert in digitizing and rematerializing fa…
3DPI.TV – 3D Knitting for Wearable Technology
3D printed wearables are shifting from the plastic pieces of questionable comfort worn by runway models to the soft sorts of materials that everyday consumers might actually have an interest in. This …
3DPI.TV – IBM & SwissLitho Introduce Nanoscale Tech
IBM has developed a nano scale process that is capable of chiselling a 3-dimensional pattern into pliable polymer as small as ten nanometers wide. While it’s not technically 3D printing — rather 3D ca…
3DPI.TV – Teen Crime Solvers Use 3D Scanning and 3D Printing
CSI has kids (and adults) excited about hi-tech crime solving. And, although there are schools teaching such crime solving to older students, Richmond County School in North Carolina is the first to u…