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…
Crowds Roar as 3D Printing Filament Goes Electric!
F-Electric, a highly-conductive plastic 3D printing filament, has just hit the market. This new functional 3D printing filament is courtesy of Seattle-based Functionalize and the vision of its creator…
PLEN2: Your 3D Printable Friend to the End
PLEN2 is the adorable brain-child of Natsuo Akazawa. In order to foster his dream of creating better relationships between humans and machines, he created an articulate, programmable, and 3D printable…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – April 5th
The TIKO 3D Printer Launches on Kickstarter for $179 Not long ago, the TIKO 3D printer debuted at SXSW, showing off its specs to attendees and boldly proclaiming an upcoming retail price of $179. The …
LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of April 4
Another week, another round of LinkBits: your source for brief bits of news from the 3D printing industry. The industry is booming and so are we, so here is a list of stories that we couldn’t quite fi…
Thieves Break Into Berlin's Dimension Alley for 3D Printers
When I used to work as a journalist for the videogame industry, we often wrote about robberies and break-in into shops or factories. We found it curious that thieves would also have fun with video gam…
Free 3D Printable of the Week: Cars & Critter Toys for Kids
This week’s free 3D printables were designed by the folks over at Dream Factory, who have designed an entire 3D printable city of toys for kids ages 4 to 8. The set, titled BuddyRacers, is mad…
3D Printing Transforms Nail Art, Frame by Frame
Over the past few years, 3D printing and stop-motion animation have developed an unexpected, but thrillingly remarkable relationship. Before, such animation was simpler, limited to materials like clay…
3D Printing Takes the Plastic Industry by Storm at NPE Show in Florida
While 3D printing’s final goal is to one day drastically cut the use of plastics to only use the necessary amount, the truth is that it is not just about using less plastic, but also using it better. …
3D Systems Teams with UNYQ for Bespoke 3D Printed Prosthetics
While e-NABLE’s 3D printed prosthetic hands are all over the news, lower limb prosthetics are much harder to fabricate with 3D printing, thus limiting the cost and customization possibilities of…
Meet HotRod Henry: a 3D Printer that "Belongs in the Kitchen"
Ever since the industry began to introduce “pretty-looking” 3D printers, many companies have striven to figure out exactly how a 3D printer should look inside a house. Most concentrated on…
The Mysteriously Sunken HMS Erebus Resurrected with 3D Printing
The namesake of the HMS Erebus is the Greek god of primeval darkness. On April 1st, 2015 the lost ship that sunk off the coast of King William Island, Canada in 1845, surfaced from the depths using 3D…
Joshua Claman Appointed Chief Business Officer of Stratasys
Former Rresident of ReachLocal and executive of Dell, Joshua Claman was announced as the new Chief Business Officer (CBO) at Stratasys Ltd. Stratasys has outlined Claman’s role as focusing on driving…