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Most Read Articles from Last Week – August 17

Yobi3D is Google for 3D Printable Content

In the plethora of 3D printable websites out there, we’ve been awaiting one site to rule them all. Yobi3D may be that site. By entering a search term, Yobi3D pours over the 3D printable content…


LittleRP 3D Printer Blows Past Kickstarter Goal in Less Than One Day

In May, 3DPI covered an open source projector-based resin 3D printer that aimed to hit Kickstarter with an opening price tag of less than $500. This morning, the LittleRP did just that and, before I…


Free Software Converts Parts of 2D Images into 3D Models

3D printing hardware is amazing and its constant innovation will probably never cease to amaze us. If, however, you are looking for something different, the advancement in 3D software is just as…


First Low Cost SLS 3D Printers Hit the Scene

The reason that you’re reading this website is that, about five years ago, key patents surrounding fused deposition modeling expired, allowing a number of Makers working on home 3D printing machines…


You Can Now Buy 3D Printable Sex Toys

3D printable sex toys are hardly new, but Sex Shop 3D – Needless to say this link is NSFW – is the first attempt to monetize the concept of 3D printing sex toys at home rather than deal with any…


Shapeways Announces Full-Color 3D Printed Plastic

Though the media is filled with 3D printed models made of full-color gypsum, often 3D printed copies of people made from realistic scans, that sandstone material is fragile and must be treated with…


Zortrax Looks to Take Over the World with 3D Printing, Seeks Resellers to Help Them Do It

No, Zortrax is not the name of a Superman villain. It’s a Polish company that made waves last January when the relatively small and unknown 3D printer manufacturer received an order for 5,000 3D…


Silky Smooth: BioFila Offers PLA-Free Alternative Filament with Lignin.

Sometimes it is by a return to what is most natural that innovative technology finds a remarkable breakthrough. BioFila appears to have an answer for a fully biodegradable filament that comes in two…


Which U.S. Agencies Are First to Open 3D Printables Sites?

In March, Make Magazine reported that there had been a White House memo to federal agencies to make three dimensional files more available to the public. Back then, the best examplewas perhaps the…


Meshmixer 2.5 Expands 3D Printing Toolset

Meshmixer, the free 3D printing software from Autodesk, has been releasing a steady stream of updates over the course of the past year, as the company establishes itself ever more firmly in the 3D…