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…
UltiMaker Factor 4, a new industrial 3D printer for the factory floor: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Netherlands-based 3D printer manufacturer UltiMaker has launched Factor 4, its new FDM 3D printer for the industrial market. The new 3D printer supp…
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…
Only You Can Prevent 3D Printer Fires
Despite the dangers posed, many desktop 3D printer users leave their machines unattended while lengthy print jobs are being performed. Maker Andrew Maurer, however, knows that doing so opens up users …
Diamond Plastics Releases Polypropylene for Laser Sintering 3D Printing
Low(er)-cost laser sintering 3D printers are making their way onto the marketplace, so that small businesses can begin 3D printing tough prints the way that Shapeays has been able to for years. To ac…
Sintesi Sud Is Making The Best AM Technologies Available to Southern Italy
The Maker Faire Rome, combined with the BIMU fair in Milan, has demonstrated that 3D printing and additive manufacturing technologies are booming at all levels across Italy. One of the reason’s why th…
3D Printing Circuit Boards with Nano Dimension
As of the first of October 2014 the Israeli Office of the Chief Scientist has granted Nano Dimension USD$500,000 of research funding for their Nano Dimension PCB Jet printer. Nano Dimension, formerly …
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 …