CADchat’s cloud-based platform offers a better way to manage product development projects
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Software development firm CADchat has launche…
Formlabs launches new 3D printers Form 4 and Form 4B
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! 3D printer OEM Formlabs has launched its new desktop re…
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…
Open Bionics Reaches Intel’s Make It Wearable Finals with 3D Printed Prosthetic
Open Bionics under the Open Hand Project continues to find itself closer to the top prize for Intel’s Make It Wearable competition. Those following the development of the project would not be surprise…
CAD Class Gets a MakerBot and Some Surprise Guests
Imagine you are taking a Computer Aided Design (CAD) class in school. Why? You want to design a product, and need to start prototyping to test out different materials. You’ve never studied engineering…
RePro3D Is Spanish Valencia’s One Stop 3D Printing Shop
Spain’s newest 3D printing shop — RePro3D — may be Valencia’s first. RePro3D offers a full selection of 3D printing and rapid prototyping services in addition to carrying a large selection of 3D…
Lumi Industries’ New DLP 3D Printer Goes Live on Indiegogo (& it’s Free for Previous Campaign Backers)
After successfully launching its first 3D printer, the LumiFold last year on Indiegogo, Italian start-up Lumi Industries — founded by maker Davide Lumin and a team of four including engineers and soft…
Groupe Gorgé Partners with CAE To Develop New 3D Printing Material Properties
Last December saw Groupe Gorgé announce its first range of industrial 3D printers at Euromold 2013 via it’s strategic acquisition of Prodways; and begin to establish itself in the additive manuf…
NVBots Goes to Fundable to Bring 3D Printing to Low-Income Schools
Recently, I spoke with AJ Perez, the CEO of NVBOTS, manufacturer of “the world’s first fully-automated 3D printer”. Speaking with AJ, I learned about the company’s unique NVPri…
Scientists to Transplant 3D Printed Ears for Children with Ear Deformities
Tonight, the BBC will be airing an exciting special BBC Inside Out London special in which the show’s host, Dr. Ranj Singh, pays a visit to the lab of Professor Alex Selfalian at University Coll…
Finding the Softer Side of Robotics with Harvard’s Soft Robotics Toolkit
Soft robotic systems are the result of carefully programming flexible objects with geometry that will allow for complex motions and mechanics without the need for motorized parts. Harvard has created …
HP's Split Means Greater 3D Printing Focus
After the printer manufacturer has been saying that it will enter the 3D printing market for over a year, Hewlett-Packard has made a big step towards further focusing on the technology by splitting it…
Stickfilament Launches New Stronger-Than-ABS High Strength PLA
Innovation (and business) happens when someone finds a way to fill a need. In the 3D printing industry this seems to be happening continuously at all levels. Within the booming desktop 3D printing sec…
The ESA to Humanity: 3D Print a Comet to Resolve Your Ontological Uncertainty
While the majority of the world’s population attempts to survive this thing called life, focusing on the pursuit of day-to-day activities, the larger cosmic meaning underlying the grand scheme o…
A Broken Heart Turns to Gold in Lionel Dean’s 3DP Film
A short film by Lionel Dean — in partnership with the Precious Project — captures the advances available from one of the longest running 3D printing jewellery designers. There are a few motifs at play…