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…
Optimizing 3D printing performance with Bondtech’s Core Heating Technology
Core Heating Technology (CHT) from Bondtech, the Swedish manufacturer of world-leading filament feeders, increases 3D printing speeds by over 30%. CHT…
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 Printer Jailbreaking: the Age-old Open/Closed Dilemma
Two questions plague many 3D printer makers as they grow: (1) can we make our materials proprietary; and (2) what should we do when customers jailbreak our machines or pressure us to open our machines…
Polymaker Remakes Itself with $3 Million Funding Round Led by Lenovo's Legend Star
As the 3D printing arena moves from hype to the edification of a substantial industry, the wheat will be separated from the chaff via genuine innovation, solid business strategy, and conscious marketi…
Cannybots to Kickstart 3D Printed Racing Robots in the Classroom
Expected to hit crowd funding soon, Cannybots are open source, 3D printable toy robots that can be printed on any desktop system and programmed using simple (and less simple) programming interfaces su…
3D Printed Retinal Imaging Device to Revolutionize Eye-Care Worldwide
According to the World Health Organization, 285 million people across the world are visually impaired. Their eyes have defects caused largely by refractive errors, cataract, or glaucoma. They don̵…
Mani Zamani's 3D Printed Toy Art Has Landed
In the 3D printing world, we produce a lot of tchotchkes, knick-knacks, and doodads. What is a 3D printed Yoda head? Is it a toy or a work of art? Or does it fall in the thingamajiggy category? Does a…
Michigan Tech Explores Nerve Tissue 3D Printing with Low-Cost BioBots Printer
BioBots was recently a finalist at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015, but we wrote about them at the beginning of this year, when they were first looking for publicity. Their cause is noble: to democratize b…
Launzer Signs Legendary Partnership to Launch 3D Printable Game Models
UK-based Legendary Games has signed an exclusive partnership to make 3D models from its latest HTML 5-based game, Year 0: Tactics, available on Finland-based 3D Print Factory’s Launzer.com 3D model ma…
Update: Bocusini Plug & Play Food 3D Printer Now Cooking on Kickstarter
With a clock counting down the time until their Kickstarter launches (currently set at 19 hours to go), Print2Taste has already launched the site for their Bocusini food 3D printer. We covered the Bo…
3D Systems Sends Industrial 3D Printing Abroad
The past couple of weeks have seen 3D Systems make a number of distribution agreements abroad and in the United States. On the consumer side, the company began increasing the US sales network for its…
Executive Interview: Scott DeFelice, CEO of Oxford Performance Materials
Scott DeFelice is CEO and founder of Oxford Performance Materials (OPM), the first company to successfully 3D print with the high-performance poly-ether-ketone-ketone (PEKK) material. In 2013, with it…
Luisa's 3D Printed Dog Wheelchair
Every dog has its day. Derby had his last year, and since, so have Bubbles and TurboRoo. All three dogs were born, unable to walk or move, either with deformities to their front legs or without front …
Top Jewerly 3D Printing Capabilities at Your Service with Pronto3D
3D printing has allowed many young, new designers to enter the world of jewelry making, but when long time experts in jewelry making get involved, the results can be even more impressive. Nemesi, a le…