Siemens launches its new AI-powered assistant for industrial engineering
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Industrial manufacturing firm Siemens has unv…
UMaine unveils its largest next-generation polymer 3D printer
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! The University of Maine (UMaine) has demonstr…
Materialise adds novel AM materials to its portfolio
Belgian 3D printing company Materialise has introduced three new materials to its AM portfolio. These materials include Polyamide 12S (PA 12S), Polyamide 11 (PA 11) for Multi Jet Fusion, and Carbon Fi…
3D Printed Guitarmaker Leads Students in Building Mobile Concrete 3D Printer
While Prof. Olaf Diegel is now known as the father of 3D printed instruments, with his complete ensemble of guitars, keyboard, and drums performing regularly at expos worldwide. Diegel, however, is n…
Texas Student Builds Concrete 3D Printer with Hopes of House Printing
With WinSun making buildings, Dini’s D-Shape and Khoshnevis’s Contour Crafting battling it out for space colonies, and WASP working to solve the world’s housing problems, it sometimes seems like concr…
Andrea Pacciani’s Laser Sintered Ornaments Become Designer Lamps
A few months ago, we reported on architect and designer Andrea Pacciani’s work involving an ancient “rose engine lathe”. These are machines able to create geometrically complex structures which can be…
Matter And Form Are Back on Kickstarter with Bevel, the $49 3D Scanner
3D scanning and 3D printing go hand in hand, capturing and creating physical representations through the power of computing. Computers, 3D printers, and 3D scanners are amazing tools, but they are all…
Magic Arms Reach out to Indiegogo to Provide 3D Printed Exoskeletons to More Kids
Take a few seconds and think about all of the things you do with your arms in a day, or an hour, or a minute. You open a door, hug someone, comb your hair, pick yourself out of bed, type into a keybo…
3D Printing Firm Alphaform AG Files for Bankruptcy
As 3D printing hype was boosting industry stocks to obscene levels last year, among those cited as potentially worthy investments by analysts was German rapid prototyping company Alphaform AG. In fac…
Gyeongnam Center Provides Space for Makers in Crowded South Korea
Traveling back and forth between Korea and North America, I have seen several cultural differences between the two and these differences also seem to appear in the regions’ respective Maker cult…
3dChef Jumps onto 3D Hubs to Offer Sugar 3D Printing
Julian Sing, aka 3dChef, runs, as far as I know, the only independent firm for 3D printing sugar objects. As a product designer, Maker, and pastry chef, Julian was able to create his own sugar 3D pri…
Materialise's Personalized Surgery Tools Expand Even Further into EU & Switzerland
Lima Corporate, the Italian company that pioneered the development of 3D printed titanium trabecular implants, is partnering with Materialise, one of the leading providers of medical (and non-medical)…
Prosthetics and Assistive Technology Challenge Helps Veterans with 3D Printing
Stratasys Ltd. recently announced that they will be a participant in the Prosthetics and Assistive Technology Challenge, an interesting event hosted in Richmond, Virginia yesterday and today by the VA…
UCLA Researchers Design Low-Cost Smartphone Blood Tester
The smartphone is probably the most exciting computing tool human beings have at their disposal. You can do amazing and important things, like take billions of selfies, play Candy Crush, stare at it …
3D Hubs Celebrates 20K 3D Print Hubs with #WeAre20K Giveaway
It’s hard to imagine that the 3D Hubs community was just a speck in its founders eyes two and a half years ago and, now, the distributed manufacturing network is growing at an exponential rate. …