Lulzbot’s first hackerspace giveaway competition has been a roaring success. Over 200 people entered and impressed the judges with their creativity and innovation. The competition was open to community-operated hackerspaces who might not even have a 3D printer. Their mission…
ClearCorrect Scales 3D Printed Digital Orthodontics Capacity by 30%
Texas-based ClearCorrect was set up by dentists to provide industry leading, cost-effective tooth alignment systems to the dental and orthodontic industry. The company’s ClearCorrect invisible braces are a 3D printed, custom made, precise, transparent series of aligners that dentists and…
3D Sytems’ Cube 3D Printer moves Closer to Mainstream with Staples
3D Systems says it is devoted to the “democratization” of 3D printers and to that end, Staples, the US and global office supply chain behemoth has begun selling 3D Systems’ Cube printer on it’s site, staples.com, for $1,299. But in…
Loci’s Sculptural 3D Printed Flight Paths
3D printing has always been about making the virtual tangible. But have you ever considered making the aerial tangible? If you have a treasured memory of a flight, be it a family holiday, a honeymoon or even all your flights…
The Perfectly Petite Printrbot Simple
From the massive mind of Brook Drum comes yet another exercise in minimalism. A mind boggling $299 is all you need to get your hands on Printrbot’s newest and sveltest 3D printer, the Printrbot Simple. This tiny kit has outer…
A Better Budaschnozzle from Lulzbot
Not satisfied with the status quo and always pushing the envelope, Lulzbot has released a new high performance hot end for RepRaps and other FFF 3D printers. The easily disassembled Budaschnozzle 2.0 reportedly offers vast improvments with an aluminium mount…
3D Printing – Tapping into Unused Energy
Watching a huge power station loom into view may look impressive but apart from utilising a great deal of natural resources they are also wildly inefficient. A large power station will typically only convert in the region of 40% of the…
Making Waves with 3D Printed Surfboard
The passionate surfers and environmentally smart geeks at Madeboards have created the world’s first 3D printed custom-made surfboards. As the brainchild of three forward thinking designers — Shannon Marks, Erik Johnson and Mark Laughlin — 3D printing is cleaning up…
