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…
Cancer Patient Receives New Jaw With 3D Printed Model
There are many applications of 3D printing that have proven inspirational. Of those many applications, the medical applicationsmove the majority of us the most. It’s the e-Nable 3D printed prosthetic …
Rendering 3D Haptic Shapes in Mid-Air using Ultrasound
Haptic technology is used so often now, it’s generally taken for granted or considered a mildly interesting novelty. One possible reason is that people never refer to it as haptic technology. It’s wh…
The White House Blue Room is a [3D Printed] Christmas Wonderland
The Blue Room of the world famous White House is now home to the official White House Christmas Tree as part of the festive décor of the beautiful building. Taking a historical tradition right into th…
Fujitsu-Powered Mobile TechShop Tours Bay Area with 3D Printing in Tow
After companies like GE and Motorola have begun traversing the world with mobile makerspaces, electronics giant Fujitsu has jumped on the bandwagon. The world’s third largest IT services provid…
Airwolf 3D Announces Robohand 3D Print-A-Thon!
If you are a regular reader of 3D printing news, you know that some of the most astounding applications are in the medical field. Prosthetics are a wonderful example of how 3D printing, scanning and m…
Find Your Way Around the Wasteland with a Working Fallout 3 Pip-Boy 3000
Maker, tinkerer and Hack-a-Day writer Will Sweatman isn’t much of a gamer, but when asked if he could cobble together a working Pip-Boy 3000 from the Fallout video game series he decided to give it a …
Solving Another of Those Pesky First World Problems with 3D Printing
Anyone whose primary computer is a laptop will understand the struggle of needing to plug and unplug cables every time you have to use it in another room or take it to work. It’s one of life’s little …
Hey Beer Nerds, This 3D Printed Bottle Lock Is For You
So let’s say that the artisanal beer that you have in the back of your fridge is brewed by monks in Tibet once every blue moon, bottled by a pygmy tribe in the Caribbean and costs $48 a bottle. It als…
Kenya Based 3D Life Print Project Is Offering Mobile 3D Printing of Custom Prosthetics
If there were any lingering doubts as to the potential usefulness of 3D printing technologies, the e-NABLE network and Robohand projects are rapidly erasing them. Self made, open source, custom and af…
3D Printing Doubles Its Footprint At International CES 2015
If you are heading over to Las Vegas for the forthcoming International CES event, be prepared, because it’s going to be mind-blowing. If you didn’t know, for the last 40 years, the International CES h…
KeyTech Introducing First Certified Food Safe, Stronger PLA
Along with being a sustainable, biocompatible and compostable material, the trait that makes PLA so widely used in 3D printing is its high versatility and that is nothing new. On the downside, PLA is …
Sharebot “Hands Over” 3D Printers as Open BioMedical Initiative Grows
When people ask me about the short term application of 3D printing, first I tell them about metal and plastic industrial prototyping and manufacturing and, when they say “what about something I could …