The MIT Club of Maine is giving their members and friends a great opportunity to get to know more about digital fabrication and 3D printing. Lead by Sarah Boisvert along with the MIT Center, the plan …
Children’s Drawings Brought to Life with 3D Printing
Crayon Creatures is a very interesting project from designer Bernat Cuni. The idea is to take a children’s drawing and turn it into a 3D figurine by modelling a digital sculpture and turning it into a…
3D Printed Music — Records Make a Comeback
A very interesting application for 3D printing came to our attention recently, which takes printing Fisher Price records to another level. Amanda Ghassaei posted on instructables demonstrating a metho…
Review of Materials that Can Be 3D Printed at Home
When it comes to 3D printing and the materials that can currently be printed in a home environment, the range available might surprise you. Of course there are technical capabilities and limitations t…
A 3D Printer Simulator – Preview of CNCSimulator Pro
The next version of CNCSimulator Pro delivers the world’s first 3D printing simulation that looks quite a handy tool both for professionals and hobbyists to simulate the print process for error checki…
USPTO to Host Additive Manufacturing Partnership Meeting
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will be hosting an Additive Manufacturing Partnership meeting on Wednesday 23rd January 2013, held at the Alexandria campus. The meeting will serv…
2012 – Top 5 3D Printing Applications by Eetu Kuneinen
Selecting the winner for my top 5 was actually easier than I thought. 1. Recycling – Yes, I know it’s a wide area to cover, and there were so many innovations around recycling 3DP applications d…
X-Cube
X-Cube is a project created by Dane Christinason that takes the challenge of the Rubiks cube to another level. He created a CAD design of a 3 x 3 x 3 Rubiks cube and added additional layers on four of…
3D Printing Personal Electronics in the Future with 'Carbomorph'?
New materials are currently under research that could one day enable people to 3D print custom-designed personal electronics, such as a hand fitting game controller, at home. At the University of Warw…
3D Systems and Dreve Improve Hearing Aid Production
3D Systems (NYSE:DDD) recently announced that the Dreve FotoTec hearing aid material is now available for use in its professional 3D printer the ProJet® 6000. As a pioneer of 3D printing for healthcar…