AutoDesk has released an updated Meshmixer app available through its 123D family of apps. It is a free download and allows users to edit and combine scanned files as well as repair files from scans an…
New York City College of Technology Continuing Studies Center Offers Fall Course on Fabrication and 3D Printing
For those living in the Brooklyn area, the New York City College of Technology Continuing Studies Center is offering a course on fabrication and 3D printing running from October 1st to the end of Nove…
Shapeways Takes Submissions for 3D Printing Bazaar in NY
Shapeways will extend its launch project showcasing 3D printing designers, artists and coders to vendors in a Bazaar featured in New York. The bazaar will run across two days — October 18th and 19th. …
Wallace Community College in Alabama Receives 3D Printer Donation from China’s Nanjing Zinjin-Lead Electronic Group
In an act archetypical of the globalization in commerce and education in our time, Wallace Community College in Dothan, Alabama has received 3D printers as a donation from Nanjing Zinjin-Lead Electron…
3D Printing and Collaborative Care — A Community Care System in Alabama
Many of you will have seen, and likely been inspired by, the developments of the Robohand project over the course of this year. It has served as a bench mark in many ways, not least in that it has pro…
MakerBot President, Jennifer Lawton, Shares Vision for Ecosystem of 3D Printing and Life Lessons for Entrepreneurs
Embodying the philosophy of substance and openness for innovation and growth, Jennifer Lawton, President of MakerBot, a subsidiary of Stratasys, spoke about her life’s journey under “many hats” and ho…
MakerBot and Microsoft Forge MakerBot Experience for Microsoft Retail Stores Across the United States
MakerBot and Microsoft represent a partnership meant to bring the potential and awareness of 3D printing to a large scale audience with an in-store presence across the United States at 41 different Mi…
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez Uses 3D Printing Technology to Create Venus of Google
Artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has used Shapeways’ 3D printing technology and a “Hill Climbing” algorithm to birth the Venus of Google. The Roman goddess manifests from the foam of the sea in mythol…
Smallholder Women Farmers in Africa To Be Aided by 3D Printed Prototype Tools
With new funding, 3d4AgDev hopes to develop labour-saving tools for smallholder women farmers in Africa. The program has kickstarted funding with efforts from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gr…
Skanect Scanning Version 1.5 Officially Available for Mac Lineup of Usual Suspects
Developed to run optimally on Mac’s standard platforms, Skanect has officially released its Skanect 1.5 for the Mac OS X. Bug fixers come included as well as predictable offline reconstruction and vol…