Amazon’s New 3D Printing Store
Did you ever have a small band that you loved? You followed and consumed everything they did? You and 11 other people? Then they had a huge mega-hit and became a world-wide phenomenon and ins…
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…
Will MakerBot Sell Out?
I don’t know. That’s the correct answer if you don’t have any hard facts. But! That hasn’t stopped me from speculating. See, MakerBot, the 3D printing start-up first to achieve success and fame, is…
Spotlight on Industrial and Home 3D Printing in Brazil
As one of the world’s largest economies, the uptake of 3D printing in Brazil will be significant, present many commercial opportunities and offer great social benefit in an economically desperate demo…
360Heros: Record Anything and Everything
Since the beginning of time, humanity has desired the following three abilities: the power of flight, precognition, and, of course, the ability to see from all 360 degrees at once. The first was accom…
XYZ Shoes – Custom Footwear by Earl Stewart
Recently, I was watching an episode of the Colbert Report in which the guest was Daniel Lieberman, professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. Lieberman explained that the use of shoes in most of mo…
MakerBot’s 3D Digitizer – Further Development Details Emerge
News has emerged from Makerbot of ongoing software and hardware improvements to the organisation’s home-grown 3D scanning platform, the MakerBot Digitiser. The original prototype of the MakerBot Digit…
German RepRap Now Offers Versatile FabliTec 3D Scanner
German RepRap, developer and manufacturer of the PRotos and the X400 3D printers, is now offering a versatile 3D scanner to complement its 3D printer range. The FabliTec 3D scanner, like the German…
3D Print with Play-Doh or Clay for a Day
There’s a supremely cool new extruder with accompanying materials just released by the folks at Hyrel 3D. They’ve done what Play-Doh wished it would have thought of years ago by making a 3D printer pr…
3D Printed Guitars by Olaf Diegel
Guitars. Has ever a sexier musical instrument been conceived? We hug them close to us, ergonomically crafted to reverberate close to our heart. No wonder we fall in love with them. Now, materials and …
