LAYBRICK is a new rough filament from inventor Kai Parthy from CC Products, the same man who brought the name of the wood-like LAYWOO-D3 to everyone’s lips last year. LAYBRICK has many of the same qua…
3D Printer Test Kit – Printable Calibration/Testing Blocks
A group of toy devs have a created an interesting Kickstarter project, which suits the current phase of consumer-level 3D printing market spot on. Even though several companies claim to already have w…
My Mini Factory – An Augmented Online Model Repository?
Next month, the 3DP-following world is going to witness yet another opening of an industry related web-based company — a 3D model online repository called My Mini Factory. Differentiation-wise My Mini…
Amanda Ghassaei’s 3D Printed Transparent Photographs
Amanda Ghassaei, the young physicist/chemist probably best known for the software she has been working on to create playable 3D printed vinyl records from audio files, has continued her mission of con…
Emerging Topologies – A PhD Exhibition From Josh Harle
When an artist reaches a doctoral degree in computer science with extensive academic studies also in philosophy and sculpture, the outcome – the showcasing where it all comes together – is bound to be…
3D Printed Titanium Bike Parts for Charge Bikes
Charge Bikes, a UK-based manufacturer of manpowered two wheelers, has joined forces with EADS Innovation Works, a branch of the global aerospace-slash-defence group, to create a super bike. We’re not …
Mataerial – 3D Printing Without Physical Limits?
My persistent outcry for new, truly innovative 3D printer hardware that would stand out from the crowd – both in terms of tech and aesthetics – seems to have been partially answered by an obviou…
UP! Plus2 – Automatically Calibrating Sub-$2,000 3D Printer
Unsurprisingly, there have been a lot of new hardware announcements in the 3D printer sector this year, with some trying to completely rewrite the rules and some offering more ‘traditional’ solutions.…
3D Printing Hits Mainstream in Finland – In the Form of The Liberator
Living far up north – more specifically in Finland in my case – typically means, that even though the so called ‘western world’ that we Finns live in is digitalized and globalized, new ideas and…
TAZ – LulzBot’s Newest 3D Printer is All Grown Up
TAZ is the latest desktop 3D printer to come from Colorado’s LulzBot (aka Aleph Objects), following the AO-100 and AO-101 with improved specs. Besides taking a slightly different physical form compare…