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…
Sculptor Richard Loffler Uses 3D Printing for His Latest Massive Creation
Sculptor Richard Loffler has been creating breathtaking works of art from cast bronze for three decades now. Some of his work sit in museums, national parks and have been featured in exhibitions all o…
NIH Festival Showcases Breakthrough Medical 3D Printing Technology
Last year the the National Institutes of Health (NIH) launched the NIH 3D Print Exchange, an open platform for sharing 3D printable medical models to encourage access to medical research and collabora…
Unexpected 3D Printing Partnership Leads to Tactile Sheet Music for Blind Musicians
In 2012 when the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Mechanical Engineering Department was gifted a new Sinterstation 2500 selective laser sintering 3D printer it didn’t take long for the machine to …
3D Printed Pavilion Uses Solar Energy to Light Up the Night
Built by Design Lab, an inter-disciplinary design studio based in Kent, Ohio, the Solar Byte Pavilion is an experiment in 3D printed architecture. The Pavilion, made possible by different applications…
Designer Cristina Franceschini Looks to 3D Printing for the Future of Italian Shoe Making
Italian shoe craft is known throughout the world and its myth is made up both of high fashion designers and experienced shoe makers, who have passed their craft on for generations. Now, both have to t…
4-Year-Old’s Complex Heart Anomaly Surgically Repaired with 3D Printing
Adaenelie Gonzalez was born with a complex heart anomaly. By the time she was 4 years old, she had had two open-heartsurgeries. Unfortunately, her condition was only temporarily relieved by these ma…
Photon Elephant Wants to Turn Your 3D printer into a Smartprinter with New Kickstarter
A few days ago, an interesting company named Photon Elephant (best name of the year) announced the launch of its Kickstarter campaign. The campaign is funding Raspberry Pi-based 3D printing software …
3D Hubs Kicks Off 2015 with its January 3D Printing Trends Report
At the start of the new year, distributed 3D printing network 3D Hubs has released its first monthly trend report. The 3D Hubs trend reports analyzes the uses and opinions of both desktop and industr…
Free 3D Printable Model of the Week: 500-Million-Year-Old Starfish
The free 3D printed model for this week comes from SketchFab user 3D Fossils,who uploaded an extremely detailed model of a 500-million-year-old starfish last week. It was found in the Kataoua Formatio…
Shapeways to Form its Own 3D Printing Network
Shapeways is an interesting company. They are actually the first 3D printing company I was ever interested in. I was living in Queens when they announced that they were opening up a second 3D printi…
Hospitalized Children to Receive Virtual Zoo Tours from the 3D Printed InMoov Robot
By now, you may be familiar with the InMoov robot. My first post for 3DPI detailed the work behind Gaël Langevin’s open source, 3D printed robot. With the help of the online community, Gaël…
World’s Sweetest Boyfriend Inspires 3D Printing Valentines Day Contest
Kids’ Creation Station is the awesome service that was created to allow parents to turn their children’s 2D drawings into 3D statues. But, when their service was used in an unconventional way, it insp…