Fab Labs. I write about them a lot. As an artist, I love the idea of communal spaces where artists, designers, engineers and whoever else wants to get together in a shared space and hash out ideas and…
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New 3D printing standards on the way?
At Drupa 2016, the Industry Standards and Technology Organization Printer Working Group will present a new standard for communicating 3D print jobs. Is the 3D printing industry getting its house in or…
It’s the STL, stupid
A senior research scientist at Autodesk has called for open source hardware and better collaboration software in 3D printing. In a keynote speech at DigiFabCon, Andreas Bastian revealed his dream of a…
How can open source hardware disrupt manufacturing?
Open source software has had a lasting impact on the world and the likes of WordPress, Linux, Firefox and Magento have become household names. Open Source Hardware hasn’t made such an impression on th…
The Importance of Fab Labs
Peter Troxler is one of the contributors to a collaboration of writing on 3D printing collected in The Decentralized and Networked Future of Value Creation. The collection, edited by Jan-Peter Ferdina…
Virtual curation can democratise archaeology
There are millions of people around the world who would love close up and personal access to the greatest moments in history. Alas, the world simply doesn’t work like that. If we could grant everybody…
3dP Will Have Utterly Transformed The World by 2020. Speakers Of The Tech Leadership Conference Say.
Communitech’s annual Tech Leadership Conference (TLC) which was held last Thursday, May 12th of 2016 at Bingemans in Kitchener, counted with more than 800 spectators and aims to answer the big q…
The failure of Makerbot: An expert opinion on open source
Tiberius Brastaviceanu, the co-founder of open source hardware, has given his insight into the massive failure of MakerBot. He claims it was more than simply a failed company, it was a betrayal of the…
Rice creates sintering laser from cheap Chinese cutter
We love a good hack here at 3DPrintingindustry.com, so today we’d like to salute the bright minds at Rice University that have created a budget laser sintering printer from a Chinese CO2 laser cutter.…
Open source design would make a wonderful world
How much better would a website look with a legion of designers around the world giving their input? How perfect could a logo be if it had felt the gentle touch of 100 top class designers doing…