David the Pellet 3D Printer is Live on Kickstarter
After much build-up, David, the pellet printer from Sculptify, has launched his Kickstarter campaign. With many pre-release news, we learned that David will run directly on pellets, instead of filamen…
Build Your Own 3D Printed Portable Wind Turbine and Save the Planet with Omni3D
Green energy production is finally taking off and 3D printing is giving it a push. Just last week we reported on OPV, 3D printed photovoltaic cells that cost less and take less time to install, while …
Yes, You Can 3D Print a Copy of Your Phallus
3D printed sex toy company French Coqs (A little NSFW) allows you to custom design your own sex toy. Or, if you’re feeling saucy, they can clone you or your partner’s tallywacker with a few pictures f…
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 t…
Crowd Funding for Norge’s Ice 1 Desktop SLS 3D Printer is Now Live
You probably already read all about Norge’s announced desktop SLS 3D printers (the Ice 9 and the Ice 1) when Mike first broke the news last August 14th. Just a few days later you now have your chance …
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 incre…
Consumer 3D Printing More than 5 Years Away from Mainstream Adoption, Says Gartner
Industry research firm, Gartner, Inc., is celebrating the 20th birthday of their beloved Hype Cycle with their latest report, “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2014”. In documenting over 2,000 te…
Lifeform Studio Brings 3D Scanning and 3D Printing to Kansas
Leawood, Kansas may not be the type of town that you would expect a professional 3D scanning and 3D printing studio like Lifeform Studio, but owners Mason and Lisa Menninger believe that they have a s…
Gradient x FF Full Color 3D Printed Jewelry on Cubify
I was done writing for the day, but then I got this ad from Cubify in my inbox and I was compelled to share it! I’m a sucker for bright colors and sci-fi designs and the Gradient x FF jewelry line com…
The Low Cost SLS Race is On with ShareBot’s Revelation
Since last February, when a significant patent for the selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printing process expired (the technology was originally invented at the University of Texas at Austin in 1984)…
