When Google’s Head Of Engineering says that soon we will be able to 3D print clothing at home, people tend to listen. When that person also happens to be one of the world’s most renown futurists — Ray Kurzweil —…
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Interview with John Dogru, Co-Founder of 3D Control Systems
A few days ago, we scooped a worldwide exclusive with the first announcement of the release of 3DPrinterOS, the new 3D printing Open OS from 3D Control Systems. Now, I’ve caught-up with John Dogru, Co-Founder of 3D Control Systems (3DCS),…
OctoPrint Cloud 3D Printing Software Gets Financial Backing
Long before the slew of 3D printer networking companies to come onto the scene this year was OctoPrint, an open source solution for making your 3D printer wireless. RepRappers and Makers have been turning to the cloud-based 3D printer management…
Common-Good 3D Printing Compatibility with an Open OS As A Canny Business Strategy
Quick! What’s the biggest show-stopper impeding 3D Printing’s total dominance of The Known World? IF you said “OS compatibility”: Kudos! (Really?! You did…?? We should know you better…) If the need for technological compatibility — to drive a nascent revolution…
Open Source Sun Shines With 3D Printed Creativity
Sol, Spanish for Sun, is a creative project by artist André Sier that mixes together LED technology, open source programming and 3D printing to develop a series of “planetoids” formed by the trajectory of autonomous agents on the surface of…
Looking for An Affordable 3D Printer? This One Comes in Below $100
At this rate soon someone might be paying you to bring an FFF/FDM home: after the $199 and the $149 3D printers here comes the sub $100 Poor Man 3D printer from Instructables. Actually those last $49 count: this is…
Sued and Sacked: Has The 3D Printing IP Storm Begun?
Respecting Intellectual Property (IP), whether traditional, Creative Commons, open source or otherwise, is important. For one thing, people who create often make little money. There is a cruel irony that music, photography and art are some of the most illegally…
RepRapPro’s Multimaterial Experiment Shows One Head is Better Than Two
RepRapPro founder and instigator of the RepRap movement, Adrian Bowyer, has done to multimaterial 3D printing what RepRap does best: keep it neat and simple. Fellas and fellers out there will tell you that the only way to do multimaterial…
Spanish Telefónica turning to Open Source 3D Printing to Drive Innovation
In the open source community, even more in the RepRap 3D printing community, people smile thinking about the fact that, one day, even the largest companies will have to accept the different, and sometimes more efficient, process of open collective…
E-nabling Six Year Old Keegen Bair to Feel a Bit Like Luke Skywalker
The idea that a 50 euro 3D printed hand could be comparable with ones that cost thousands is just so powerful as Malia Spencer, reporter from the Portland Business Journal, found out for herself when she saw six year old…
