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…
Gala 3D Printer Hits Kickstarter Heavy with Features and Light Price-Tag
While the desktop 3D printing market continues to over-saturate, we still await the perfect low-cost printer that is both flexible and easy to use, stocked with features, but not overly complicated, a…
Giving Any FFF 3D Printer a Multicolor, Multimaterial 3D Printing Palette
Do you want multiple colors in your 3D prints? Do you also want to see a perfect Kickstarter campaign? Check out The Palette: 3D Printing Evolved, and you might just get both in one shot. Especially i…
Viscoelastic Printhead Yields Promise for Multimaterial 3D Printing
While researchers like Hod Lipson are working on advanced multimaterial 3D printing techniques behind institutional doors, Harvard’s Jennifer Lewis is advancing 3D printing technologies on both …
MakerBot Makes Way into South America with 3D Printing Distribution Agreement
MakerBot employees may have received some bad news recently, but that doesn’t mean that the company isn’t continuing to grow in terms of distribution. Partnering with Distecna, the deskto…
3D Printing in Austin with My Neighborhood 3D Hub
I first encountered 3D Hubs at the SXSW Create Expo, where they had a booth promoting their distributed network of local printers. Using the site’s database of 3D printer owners, an individual c…
World's 1st 3D Printed & Battery Powered Rocket Engine
With the introduction last week of the ‘Electron’ rocket and its ‘Rutherford’ electric engine, Space is a little bit closer than it’s ever been before. New Zealand-based …
Waste of Space: Tethers Unlimited to Recycle Space Station Waste into 3D Printing Filament
Bothell, Washington-based Tethers Unlimited Inc. (TUI), has been awarded a NASA contract to develop a recycling program for the International Space Station (ISS) and for future manned missions in spac…
New Exotic Wool and Aluminum 3D Printing Filaments by TreeD and Ira3D
After colorFabb, Proto-Pasta, and Kai Parthy have acted as pathfinders and demonstrated that thermopolymeric filaments can be combined with a wide range of other materials, two young Italian companies…
3D Printed Jet Component Cleared to Fly, Makes Aviation History with $135 Billion in Pre-Orders
The Wright brothers made aviation history by being the first men to fly, now a “funny looking” nozzle is making history once again by becoming the first 3D printed part certified by the US Federal Avi…
3D Print Anything Anywhere with Thingiverse's New 3D Hubs Button
Distributed manufacturing network 3D Hubs is certainly growing, both in size and importance. As the international community of 3D printer owners grows to over 15,000, the start-up has continued to in…
Touch the Sound, Hold the Song with Reify's 3D Printed Sculptures
Throughout history, humans have taken inanimate objects and used them to create sound. In our journey in search of the next aural experience, we have taken materials such as wood, animal bones, hair a…
3D Printing Low-Cost Tools for Organic Farmers in the Developing World
The lab of Michigan Tech’s Dr. Joshua Pearce is one of the most admirable 3D printing-related research outfits that I’m familiar with. If the Pearce Research Group isn’t proving jus…