Another day, another new 3D printer. Today’s applicant is the FFF based Profi3DMaker from the Czech company 3D Factories, their second attempt at building the perfect creating machine. Standing at 35k…
Samantha Snabes – the Gigabot Travels in Northern Chile
Samantha Snabes, who has previously worked with an ambiguous title of Social Entrepreneur in Residence for NASA’s Open Innovation Program, is taking what she has learned from space explorations – and …
Gallery: Showcasing the Works of Dario Scapitta
This week we’re presenting the works of an Italian jewellery designer Dario Scapitta. Dario isn’t a designer merely focused on making all things shiny out of precious metals in the traditional way, bu…
ColorFabb – a New 3D Printer Filament Producer
ColorFabb is another new 3D printing filament service concept from the Dutch Helian Polymers. The company has its own production facilities and thus full control of what comes out at the end of the li…
On Kickstarter: 3D Refiner
3D printing isn’t exactly what could be called a fast process, especially when the aim is a precision print using low layer height settings with a reasonably priced deposition printer. Basically, up u…
Photon – A 3D Scanner on Indiegogo
Steepening the already surprisingly positive trend curve of emerging reasonable – i.e. affordable – prosumer/consumer 3D scanner projects in 2013, out comes the Photon from Matterform. It is intended …
Techshops – Fablabs Gone Commercial
Besides the 3D printing hardware manufacturers and the ever-growing number of online services hosting and trading digital designs for money, other types of 3DP business ventures and models have also b…
Transparent Prototypes — 3D Printing in the Cosmetic Packaging Sector
There are many interesting examples of 3D printing’s benefits within the product development process in various industries. The latest comes from the cosmetics sector, specifically the cosmetic packag…
A New Life for Old Accessories – 3D Printed iPhone 5 Dock Adapter from Sculpteo
The general speed of development and arrival of new gadgetry in the tech world is generally considered to be a good thing – e.g. for creating an excuse to get the latest spec or design beasts in your …
Kickstarter: Therminator 5 Hot End for RepRap 3D Printers
Tony May from RepRapTech has encountered issues with their 3D printers – more specifically he has found that the RepRap Prusas’ hot ends are below par for “more demanding print jobs”. He names severa…