Watching and writing about the 3D printing industry, as I do, is an activity that brings simultaneous insight, hope for the future, and, it has to be said, frustration. One of the main sources of the …
Time Will Tell – rvnDSGN's US-Manufactured 3D Printed Titanium Watches offer a new Approach to the Art of Making Wearable Functional Fashion
During the last decade or so, the watch has pretty much gone the way of the cufflink — that’s to say only seen on the wrists of top executives at prestigious galas and other above-bacchanal events for…
Office Depot Expands its 3D Printer Portfolio – Online – with 3DS' Cube and CubeX
Office Depot, one of the more traditional companies pushing the 3D printing world into the minds and homes of the general public as Scott Dunham explained in his article last Friday haven’t limi…
Hammerhead Shark 3D model on Thingiverse
Even though Discovery Channel’s Shark Week – the channel’s top tier, annual week-long, feature that first aired in 1987 – has been a controversial topic this year due to some a…
D3D's Dual and Quad Extruder Head Campaign on Kickstarter
An FDM extruder, which is sized similar to a normal part but has a dual-head, or, doubling it down with a quad-head fitted into a space currently only seen to boast two heads; and if such a part was a…
3D Printers of the World Unite – PrintToPeer's Giant 3DP Sculpture in the Making
Measuring size can mean very different things depending on the perceived context and subjective focus. From evaluating an object’s physical size to understanding the cultural or technological im…
SCRIOS – Tabletop RPG with 3D Printed Accessories
Serving 3D printed objects as a side is an approach best served printer-hot, as applications where the tech can be used to create added value for the user are not limited by much else than the creativ…
FabAllThings – Design Democratization from Dublin
Aspiring writers are a ubiquitous phenomenon. Practically everybody has at least some written skeletons in their closets, whether it be in the form of drawers filled with poems from the delicately unb…
Unleash the Astronomer Within – 3D Printable Printonian Newtonian Telescope
Contrary to the popular dystopian belief, not everything in our universe revolves around reality TV stars and their seeming love/hate interaction with the masses through the media. However, one thing …
Werner Berry's Worm Gear Extruder Concept
Werner Berry, who has been working on his own 3D printer with a classical naming scheme – the BerryBot 3D – has shared a quite novel concept to extrude the filament, demonstrated with a humble screw o…