From deep within the recesses of his mind, artist Kevin Mack generates fluid, intertwined shapes. As you move your eyes from each Laser Sintered (LS) sculpture to the next, a funny thought might occu…
Hands-on Education with 3D Printing at ACS Egham
An international trend to incorporate additive manufacturing into pre-college education seems to be taking place as the United Kingdom is starting to see 3D printing programmes appear in different pri…
Free eBook Frees 3D Printing Education
Man, I love free education. I don’t know when it stopped being free, but it’s really exciting to see it become free again because learning is something that animals just do. It’s what life is! Even w…
The Kühling&Kühling 3D Printer is Not Your Grandmammy's RepRap — And is now Available to Preorder
When one thinks of the RepRap 3D printer, it’s possible that what comes to mind is hobbyists tinkering in their garage or local hackspace. However, as Ari reported on 3DPI a couple of months bac…
An Intriguing New Line in 3D Printed Jewellery — EntropyA
AmniosyA is an Italian based art and design collective that prints jewellery so smooth, so organic, you’d think it was discovered in a riverbed. The latest collection has benefitted from 3D prin…
The ‘Six Million Dollar’ Ear
It seems that the Singularity may be nearer than previously thought. While some scientists are stuck on printing ordinary human organs, scientists at Princeton have skipped years ahead to cybernetics…
Carl Bass Expertly Managing 3DP Expectations
About a month back, Carl Bass did an interview with PopSci in which the CEO of Autodesk reflected on the current state of 3D printing and its possible future. He said that, while the technology has ma…
Kickstarting Man’s Ascent — A Sculptural Evolution From Analog to Digital
I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan of art on Kickstarter. It’s not so much that I have something against the art as it is about the art’s relationship to the fundraising platform. Fro…
Using 3D Printing to Increase the Collective Intelligence of Everything
While Defense Distributed is out creating an open library of dangerous objects to make the world a scarier place, others, like Zhang et al. have begun work on a library of printable optics to make the…
3D Printing Materials — Do the Mutation
Artists continue to demonstrate the unique capabilities of 3D printing in attention grabbing ways. This time, Italy-based Do the Mutation, an artist collective, and CRP Technology, a 3D printing and m…