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…
Graphing Calculators Made Affordable by Open-Source Software &3D Printing
These days, pretty much all students are required to have a graphing calculator. Some schools even start requiring them as early as middle school. There are a lot of benefits to utilizing this technol…
Local Motors to Open 2 New Car 3D Printing Facilities This Year
As 3DPI’s Andrew Wheeler promised last month, Local Motors has gone ahead and 3D printed another copy of their famous Strati car. This time, at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS…
itSeez3D Enables Full Body 3D Scanning for 3D Printing
Back when I reviewed the Structure Sensor for the iPad, I was overjoyed with the ease and quality of the itSeez3D 3D scanning app designed for the Structure. The app made it possible to capture full-c…
World's Largest Metal Cutting Manufacturer Opens 3D Printing R&D Center
Sweden’s Sandvik AB (SAND) has been around since 1862, growing to encompass 47,000 employees across 130 countries as the world’s biggest producer of metal-cutting tools. The company conti…
Say Namaste to MANAV, the First 3D Printed Robot From India
At IIT in Mumbai, India, the country’s first 3D printed plastic robot MANAV, was featured on the third day of the country’s annual Tech Fest 2015. MANAV, which means “human” or “man” in Hindi, …
3D Print Your Own 3D Scanner
Yes, it has come to this. The Atlas 3D is a Raspberry Pi-powered 3D laser scanner kit that you assemble yourself using parts 3D printed by your own desktop 3D printer. The low cost scanner has current…
7-Year-Old Trooper Joins the Star Wars Saga with 3D Printed Arm
In the Star Wars saga, Clone Troopers were created to defend the Republic, before becoming Stormtroopers to serve the Empire. If, in the upcoming trilogy by Disney and JJ Abrams, they are once again t…
Hack & 3D Print Olympus' Open Platform Camera
The Google Project Ara modular smartphone may be the culmination of a process that will enable future generations to modify the hardware components of their electronic devices, much like current gener…
Custom Ear Wearables in Under an Hour with New Mobile 3D Scanner
Atlanta, Georgia tech company United Sciences showed off some impressive new 3D scanning technology at CES 2015. The handheld 3D scanning device is the first mobile scanner that can accurately capture…
Breaking: Senvol Releases the First, and Only, Free Searchable Database for Industrial 3D Printing!
If you just want to read the headline and start using this groundbreaking tool already, go ahead and click here. One of the biggest questions I hear when talking to various people interested or embedd…
DeltaWASP 3D Printer Review: the Ducati of Delta 3D Printers
Any 3D printer is a manufacturing robot, but no 3D printer, no matter what the technology involved, looks more like bot than those made using delta architecture. The first delta 3D printer I have had …
Textiles and 3D Printing Stitched Together by the Knitic Project
Clothing is one of the categories that people – especially those who are not industry insiders – are most interested in as a 3D printing application. Albeit, it is also one of the categori…