Building a crossbow was a challenge for 3rd century artisans, an activity that easily took a week to construct a single bow. Today, the same thing can be done within a day — with the help of a 3D prin…
Stratasys Extreme Redesign Contest Top 10 Finalists Announced
Stratasys announced the finalists for their 9th annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge. The global contest is aimed for students and invites them to submit an innovative product design, a redes…
Twikit – Custom 3D Printed Trophies
Bored of giving away the same standard trophy that everyone else uses? Twikit is a start-up, focusing on online sales of trophies and medals for any special occasion such as business events, sport com…
DIYROCKETS Challenge: Design a 3D Printed Rocket Engine and Win $5000
Building nano-satellites has become popular lately. Remember the PongSats and CubeSats? More and more companies and institutions are getting involved in small and nano-scale satellites, packed with el…
Makerbot Customizer Winners
Makerbot announced the winners of their latest design competition — the “Makerbot Customizer Challenge”. They were extremely impressed with the high calibre of contestants and thanked everyone who par…
Stratasys Debuts Functional 3D Printed Multi Material Keyboard
Stratasys has taken multi-material 3D printing one step further with their latest creation: a 3D printed multimaterial computer keyboard. One of Stratasys’ in-house designers, Arnon Gratch, is behind …
Cimatron forms 3D Printing Advisory Board
Cimatron Limited, a CAD/CAM software company with over 40,000 installations worldwide, recently announced that it is establishing a 3D Printing Advisory board, naming the 3D printing expert Terry Wohl…
3D Printed Zebra & Other Animals
Some (more) stunning 3D design work is available on Shapeways and presents a 3D printed zebra. The design was created by Dotsan, who is experimenting with telling a story using minimal material in ord…
Update: Andreas Forgacs on 3D Printed Meat
The CEO of Modern Meadow, Andreas Forgacs gave a speech at the recent Google Solve for X conference. For those unfamiliar with the work of Modern Meadow, it is the company developing 3D bioprint techn…
U.S. Army Deploying Mobile FabLabs
Technology has always been a major influence on war. It has taken many forms from building automated weapons to transportation and distribution of supplies. This has further influenced how soldiers ar…