Endeavor 3D integrates CO-AM software in its powerful HP printer fleet
Additive contract manufacturer Endeavor 3D has partnered with HP and Materialise to leverage the Materialise CO-AM software platform for improving its…
MTC leverages AMCM’s unique multi-laser beam shaping system
The Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) has acquired the AMCM M 290-2 FLX, an industrial 3D printing system from AMCM, a company affiliated with EOS…
American companies to make and sell NASA’s GRX-810 superalloy
NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has announced that it has licensed its GRX-810 superalloy to five US-based companies. Unveiled last year, GRX-810 is an Oxide Dispersi…
Mark Lee’s Top 5 3D Printing Advances for 2014
This year has flown by, and, with it, has gone a flurry of technological and creative advances in 3D printing. With such an abundance of news and ideas to keep up with, I thought I might share the 5 a…
Bhold Launches Open Source iPad Shell Amplifier on Youmagine
I got to meet Susan Taing, the designer behind the Bhold brand, last November at the Shapeways Factory in New York City and she explained to me that a number of her 3D printed products go through many…
Additively Adds New Business Models for 3D Printing Service Optimization
A lot of innovation, in the 3D printing industry, comes from the bottom; that is: final users and those who now have professional prototyping machines at accessible costs. An even faster rate of innov…
One Year In, 3D Heights is Launching a 3D Printing Academy Online Project
Last year around this time I was considering opening up a 3D print shop. To do that I looked up those who had done it already: in the US, apart from the MakerBot stores, the first 3D print shop was 3D…
5 3D Printing Stories to Prove How Far We Can Go
Pre-2014, there were plenty of people skeptical about the possibilities of 3D printing. The technology was even laughed at by my close friends and family and deemed “a gimmick” by the founder of Foxc…
This is What Happens When you Give a Doll Maker a 3D Printer
Spanish artist Sonia Verdu designs, sculpts, paints and photographs some of the most stunning articulated dolls that I’ve ever seen, so when she got herself a 3D printer she took her skills to the nex…
Scott Grunewald’s Top 5 3D Printing Applications for 2014
5: China warming up to 3D printing While 3D printing is not new to the Asian market, up until this year there really hadn’t been a lot of interest. But in 2014 it finally started to build up some stea…
Jez Pullin’s Top 5 3D Printing Applications for 2014
Trying to find 3D printing applications from the last twelve months is about as difficult as trying to find a grain of sand in the Sahara, a blade of grass on a football pitch or drunken graduate at a…
3D Printing Aint Afraid of no Ghost
This 3D Printable Ghost Trap from Ghostbusters is just what you need to clean out all of those pesky spirits and spooks that are haunting your home. The trap was designed by My Mini Factory user Phill…
3DPI.TV – 360 Degree Video Helmet Made Possible with 3D Printing
360° Videos is a company set to give us a new “view” on what video cameras can do. They’ve created a helmet cam that can hold eighteen GoPro cameras, which can be controlled remotely to capture any ev…
Danielle Matich’s Top 5 3D Printing Applications for 2014
As a Media Manager at 3D Printing Industry, I have a great opportunity to see a lot of industry news in the process of publishing it, but, usually, my excitement is contained to my home office. It nor…
Are You Unhappy To See Me Or Is That Just Your 3D Printed Mechatronic Spider Dress?
Anouk Wipprecht has created another startling piece of wearable fashion. Presenting the Spider Dress 2.0! Say you take a nice trip to see the amazon rain forest, you are walking along a trail, and yo…