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…
Post-Capitalism: Rise of the Collaborative Commons
The Revolution will not be Centralized This article is a follow-up to “The Obsolescence of Capitalism: And the Transition to a Resource Based Economy,” which examined the effects of ongoing social and…
Inside 3D Printing Brings New Faces to 3D Print Week NY
With keynote speakers from industry heavyweights like Stratasys, Materialise, 3D Systems, Wohler’s, Hewlett Packard, and Shapeways, I wanted to highlight a few of the up-and-coming companies and…
Michigan Tech's Open Source Course – The Future of 3D Printing Education
Educating people about 3D printing is one thing. Educating them using exclusive proprietary tools and expensive resources is quite another. And then there’s educating them with free, universally…
The New MendelMax 3.0 3D Printer Returns to Market
The MendelMax is one of the best known open source RepRap designs based on the Prusa Mendel. Version 2.0 came out in early 2013, in what now seems like an entirely different era. About two years later…
Faith's New 3D Printed Arm Makes Bike Riding a Breeze
The most memorable moments of childhood are often the simplest of pleasures, like riding a bike or drawing a picture. When Faith Lennox’s arm was amputated below the elbow at 9 months old, simple plea…
Ultimaker Releases Files for the Original+ 3D Printer
Open creativity and open source business models are growing together with the 3D printing industry. However it is quite hard to understand what a true open source company is, let alone to behave as on…
Sculpteo Raises €5 Million for 3D Printing Services
Three large 3D printing service bureaus are continually vying for dominance of the service provider industry. While Materialise has a strong foundation in the industry and is well diversified throug…
Italian Designer Proposes Food Waste as 3D Printing Stock
One of the greatest, increasingly tapped, potentials of 3D printing is the ability to recycle waste into new objects. And, though there exist projects and products that take advantage of milk jugs, w…
3D Printing Meets the Maker Masses at SXSW Create 2015
SXSW Create is defiantly not the “cutting edge” of technology innovation at SXSW. It is likely not the hub of activity that will lead “thought-leaders” to the acquisition of th…
Extruding Solder Paste for Electronics Printing – the Peter Jansen Way
Electronics printing is an idea that is still being explored, perhaps most fully realized by Voxel8’s developer’s kit. Though there are a number of projects seeking to make home electroni…
3D Printed Shell Brings Tortoise Back into Shape
Cleopatra, a leopard tortoise from Colorado, USA, has a lot to be thankful for. First, to Nico Novelli and his Canyon Critter Reptile Rescue team for rescuing her. Then, to Roger Henry – a desig…
GE Garages Brought 3D Printing to Berlin. Where Will It Stop Next?
While I was staying in Berlin for a couple of days I found out, almost by chance, that the second European stop of the GE Garage “touring makerspace” was taking place in the German capital…