Potential Home Metal 3D Printer: The Vader
The New York Maker Faire 2013 bore witness to a very promising home metal 3D printer. This Liquid Metal Jet printer goes by the name of Vader. The Vader metal 3D printer is created by father-and-son m…
Australia’s Own Giant 3D Printer
Australia is best known for the Sydney Opera House, increased UV radiation due to the growing ozone hole over Antarctica and evidence of convergent evolution. So, it’s not surprising that, while Jim S…
Lionhead 3D Printer Grows Up on Kickstarter
The Lionhead combination 3D printer and scanner, the upgrade of the Lionhead Bunny that we covered earlier this month, has finally gone to Kickstarter and it is even more impressive than its elliptic…
Phoenix – Pushing Limits in the sub-$400 3D Printer Market
Besides 3D printing, I can’t think of any other sector in the tech industry where it’s almost impossible to keep track of all the interesting new concepts that keep popping up! Granted, most of them a…
3-Sweep Sweeps the Net with Smart 2D to 3D Conversion
Blowing up across the 3D printing Internet last week was the following video, which demonstrated a software with the ability to convert 2D photographs into complete 3D models, possibly opening up a wh…
University of Southern California & the Realization of 3D Printed Houses
At ComputerWorld, there’s a great post by Lucas Mearian covering the Contour Crafting talk I mentioned in my review of the Inside 3D Printing Conference. If you missed it, the lecture, titled “Roboti…
Tom’s Guide to Best 3D Printers of 2013
Last week, Richard Baguley (the bagel-iest of the Richards) at Tom’s Guide wrote up a brief review of some of the latest home 3D printers on the market. I still haven’t gotten a chance to see all of t…
Unveiling of Ultimaker 2 in NYC
In 2010 a Dutch company called Ultimaker, led by Erik De Brujn, came onto the 3D printing scene and brought a whole new way of thinking to the market. Three years later they’ve unveiled an amazing new…
Bigger, Badder, Brad’er – a New Supersized Maker 3D Printer on Thingiverse
While many of the most recent consumer/prosumer grade 3D printers are aiming low with previously unheard of price points – often at the expense of other qualities – some men just want to watch the wor…
A New User Focused Materials Source for 3D Printing
A note from Tom Clay (one time CEO of Z Corporation) is enlightening on a number of fronts — for one, Tom has stayed in the 3D printing industry, also, he’s been working on something new, and that ‘so…
