Endeavor 3D integrates CO-AM software in its powerful HP printer fleet
Additive contract manufacturer Endeavor 3D has partnered with HP and Materialise to leverage the Materialise CO-AM software platform for improving its…
MTC leverages AMCM’s unique multi-laser beam shaping system
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has acquired the AMCM M 290-2 FLX, an industrial 3D printing system from AMCM, a company affiliated with EOS…
American companies to make and sell NASA’s GRX-810 superalloy
NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has announced that it has licensed its GRX-810 superalloy to five US-based companies. Unveiled last year, GRX-810 is an Oxide Dispersi…
3D Printed Trump Butt Plug Trumps Previous Butt Plugs
Politically-minded 3D artist Fernando Sosa has made yet another popular 3D printed butt plug. Once again, the plug is not popular for its possible uses, but, instead for its satirical nature. This tim…
Married Couple Sends Internet SOS to Fund $4K SLS 3D Printer
Crowdfunding campaigns are most often used as a pre-order system for funding the completion and manufacturing of hardware projects. As exciting as this model might be for the future of investing and b…
Drone Maker ElecFreaks Launches Portable Freaks3D 3D Printer
It may not be the “world’s first portable 3D printer”, as the Indiegogo campaign claims, but Freaks3D’s portable 3D printer is a well-marketed one with a reasonable price. Deve…
3D Systems Releases Its Own Soluble Filament for Complex, Moving 3D Prints
Other 3D printer manufacturers have been promoting the use of water soluble filament for their machines for some time, but, because 3D Systems’ Cube 3 and CubePro rely on filament cartridge syst…
3D Printed GyroPalm Seeks to Control Your Electronic World
Launching on Kickstarter tomorrow, the GyroPalm is a wearable that probably should have existed by now. Or, rather, it takes those devices that do exist, like the Apple Watch, and makes them open sour…
Virtual Reality Summit Added to Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara
There’s nothing better than the computer-simulated life, right? Virtual reality is now poised to replace television as the primary means by which one escapes into a multimedia fantasy land, dev…
Authentise Launches 3DIAX Suite of Sweet 3D Printing Tools
Authentise, based at the NASA Research Park campus in Mountain View, CA, has steadily been growing since it was founded at Singularity University in 2012, expanding its technologies, partnerships, and…
3D Printing’s Role in Shaping the Future of Education
Additive manufacturing was introduced more than 25 years ago. However, only recently has broad industrial and consumer interest in 3D printing ignited, creating new fabrication opportunities and disru…
Harvard's 3D Printed Soft Robot Jumps Up and Gets Down with Greater Efficiency
3D printing technologies have worked like nitrous oxide in the race to more advanced, customized robots by enabling research teams and even commercial ventures throughout the world to rapidly, and rel…
NASA Nerds: 3D Print a Model of the New Horizons Spacecraft
After traveling 3 billion miles, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft finally got a closeup look at Pluto. The data received from the spacecraft about Pluto include an exact measurement of Pluto’s diameter…
Maker Launches 3D Printed Truck Campaign to Pay for Meds
So many times we’ve wondered if desktop 3D printing of consumer products can really be used to fuel a sustainable business. Coupled with 3D modeling proficiency, there are cases where it is beginning …
3D Printing Mutual Fund Adds Robotics to Investment Portfolio
While Meckler Media’s Inside 3D Printing event series have been successful since their inception nearly two years ago, the man behind Meckler Media, Alan Meckler, had also seen the need for a mu…