US New York Council Member Lewis Fidler (D-Brooklyn) introduced a new bill to regulate 3D printed guns in New York this week. The bill would make it illegal to use a 3D printer to create any part of a…
Printerest: 3D Printables Repository Potential?
Image based social networking site Pinterest is proving a useful — and popular — tool among the burgeoning 3D printing community. Just as Google+ is the network of choice for makers, and Twitter sees …
RichRap Wants to Provide a Conduit between Industry & Makers At TCT Show + Personalize 2013
Richard ‘RichRap‘ Horne, RepRap engineer extraordinaire, is a bit of 3D printing genius. He also combines that attribute with humility and altruism: not always the most reconcilable of tra…
3D Printing for Prototyping — The iDevice Pocket Tripod, Part 1
In the first of a two-part interview with Rambod Radmard, the designer and creator of a new, innovative iPhone case that is currently on Kickstarter, Shane Taylor considers how invaluable, and often o…
3D Printed Home Computation
The Turbo Entabulator is, according to it’s rather brilliant creator Chris Fenton, ‘a simple, 3D-printable (caveat: It requires some springs, bearings, rubber bands, and nuts/bolts), fully…
Graphene + Boron Nitride = Semiconductor
MIT researchers have taken a major step towards making wonder material graphene with a property called a band gap, which is required to utilize graphene in the manufacturing process for electronic dev…
Laser 3D Printing Breakthrough in China
The Chinese Dalian Municipal Government reports that a team at the Dalian University of Technology have developed a trial version of a new type of 3D printer: with an industrial scale output of some 1…
REASON Poll: 62% Say Americans Should be Allowed to Own 3D Printers
A year ago 3D printing was a technology that a growing minority of the population of industrialized nations had heard of. Now, owing to one man and his gun, it is a technology that the industrialized …
European Space Agencies Off-world 3D-Printed Toolbox
Is this the world’s most advanced toolbox? Possibly not. But it may be the off-world’s most advanced toolbox, 3D-printed, and now in orbit to help maintain Europe’s Columbus research…
UK’s £14.7m Investment in 3D Printing Industrial Applications Announced
The UK Government’s Industrial Strategy has lead to a commitment of £14.7 million investment to develop 3D printing projects, UK Business Secretary Vince Cable announced yesterday. The Technolog…