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Most Read Articles from Last Week – December 21

3D Hubs’ 2015 3D Printer Guide: the Buyer Guide to End All Guides?
That’s a bold question and, while the answer is “probably not”, it does get at the extensiveness of 3D Hubs 2015 3D Printer Guide. Unlike other 3D printer guides, like Make’s “Ultimate Guide to 3D Pr…



The team at Make got their hands on a new Dremel 3D Idea Builder 3D Printer and is hosting a contest to find the Maker with the best idea to build with it. But there’s a catch, Make is already pretty …


Printrbot Learn Crowd Sourced a 3D Printing Curriculum in 3 Days
Last week the head of Printrbot Learn, Clarence Fisher, announced that he was going to crowd source a new 3D printing curriculum and it took less than three days for a nearly complete first draft of t…


Creating a 3D Printable Circuit Board for a Practical Application
We’re not to the point where a completely 3D printable circuit board is feasible – although we’re getting close – but that doesn’t mean that 3D printing can’t save makers and home builders plenty of t…


Dual Extruder Conversion Kit for Ultimaker 2
Online 3D printer retailer Creatr posted information about a new conversion kit that they designed that would allow an Ultimaker 2 3D printer to be upgraded with an all metal dual extruder. In a post …


How-to 3D Print Your Own CT Scans
At 3DPI, we’ve covered a plethora of stories in which doctors have created 3D prints from the CT scans of their patients. We’ve even covered one story in which a husband did so for his own wife. But…


Impossible Objects Secures $2.8 Million for Composites 3D Printing
As desktop 3D printing begins to evolve, the race to fill the growing materials market has begun to take off, with numerous companies seeking to push new 3D printing filament with qualities that match…


New Remarkably Transparent FDM 3D Prints
True transparency in a Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) print is an aspiration that opens the door to a huge range of prototyping, desktop factory, and professional production possibilities. Taulman, r…


taulman3D Releases Flexible 3D Printing Material Ideal for Prosthetics and Cosplay
taulman3D is already well known for creating easy-to-use, high-performance nylon filament for desktop 3D printing, but the company continues to prove itself to be an innovative developer of 3D printin…


Europe Steps Up in Filament Manufacturing with Fillamentum and Dr3D
The Eastern European 3D printing scene is already vibrant with designers such as parametric | art, 3D printing services like Gigamax 3D, and quite a few 3D printer manufacturers, primarily out of Pola…