CADchat’s cloud-based platform offers a better way to manage product development projects
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Software development firm CADchat has launche…
UltiMaker Factor 4, a new industrial 3D printer for the factory floor: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Netherlands-based 3D printer manufacturer UltiMaker has launched Factor 4, its new FDM 3D printer for the industrial market. The new 3D printer supp…
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…
WASP: Saving the World with 3D Printed Splints & Cranial Implants
I admire any company whose name is an acronym for saving the world. And Italy’s WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project) is certainly a company to admire. When they’re not developing …
3D ArcheoLab Allows Everyone Entry to the 3D Printable Virtual Museum
On 3DPI, we have covered many initiatives that have implemented 3D printing technologies to make art more accessible by removing both geographical and physical barriers. However, only a tiny part of t…
3D Printed Open Bionics Shortlisted, Vying for £50,000 Inclusive Technology Prize
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), roughly 15% of the world’s populace — or an estimated 1 billion people — live with some sort of disability. The Inclusive Technology Prize…
The Utah Tea Set is 3D Printed Entirely from Tea
Most recently, Emerging Objects made headlines for 3D printing a large-scale structure called Bloom, but, before that, the 3D printing design firm made a name for itself with its unique printing feeds…
Texture Mapping the 3D Printed World with Hydrographics
Since the 80’s hydrographic printing has been used as a relatively simple way to transfer images onto 3D objects. While perfect for applying a repeated pattern onto an item, hydrographic printi…
Oxman Revolutionizes Biomanufacturing with Living, 3D Printed Wearable
If a MakerBot Replicator 3D printer can be used in pharmacological research labs for advances studies on how to administer cancer fighting drugs, then it should be no surprise that the Object 500 Conn…
3D Hubs Offers Perks Program to Empower Distributed 3D Printing
3D Hubs is already powering through 2015 with a number of big news stories: the release of their public API, the embedding of their 3D Print button on a number of important sites, and a steady increas…
Autodesk Releases Mechanical Files for Ember 3D Printer
When Autodesk announced that their DLP 3D printer, Ember, would be entirely open source, they weren’t joking! The company first released the formula for its PR48 resin under the Creative Commons…
Sciaky Unveils 4 New Large-Scale Metal 3D Printing Systems
Sciaky has long been 3D printing large scale objects with its Electron Beam Additive Manufacturing (EBAM) technology, typically for private and government customers in the aerospace and defense indust…
Maker Media Seeks to Conquer Internet with MakerSpace Social Network
If it weren’t for Maker Media and all of its associated products – Maker Faire, MakerCon, MakerShed, and Make Magazine – I probably wouldn’t have a job. Beginning with a bimon…
Polyforge Sub-$20,000 SLS 3D Printer to Be Unveiled at Maker Faire
The SLS race is literally on fire as new models and projects are announced based on the, now open, original SLS patent. The goal is to reduce the price of an SLS system by a factor of 10 and the first…
Pembient to 3D Print Rhino Horns in Laissez-Faire Conservation Attempt
Currently genuine rhino horns go for up to $60,000 per kilogram and have a variety of uses including being used for Chinese Medicine, aphrodisiacs, some cancer treatments, and as a kind of status symb…