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…
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…
Sigma Labs Joins The AMC & Is Awarded Grant to Develop 3DP Monitoring Tech
3D printing and additive manufacturing technology R&D firm Sigma Labs was just asked to join the Additive Manufacturing Consortium run by the Edison Welding Institute. They were also awarded a gra…
Introducing A 3D Printing Service for Producing Silicone Products
For some time I have been in touch with the team at Fripp Design and Research, a leading industrial and product design practice here in the UK, that has been developing a proprietary new 3D printing p…
New RepRapPro Ormerod 2 Kits Are Now Available for Purchase
RepRapPro has just made their newest RepRap 3D printer kit, the Ormerod 2, available for purchase. You can get the complete easy to assemble kit for $735 or just the hardware for $622. Named for the e…
Does the Solus DLP 3D Printer Stand Alone?
Another new low-cost, DLP 3D printer is making its presence known in the 3D printing community, presenting a high-resolution, desktop 3D printer that relies on XGA and HD projectors to produce detaile…
Astroprint Takes off on KS & Rockets into World Maker Faire Stratosphere!
Daniel Arroyo has a quick mind. The CEO of San Diego based AstroPrint answered my questions quickly, concisely and without hesitation when we met at the World Maker Faire (WMF) in NYC last weekend. …
PIY Optics on a Form1+
To date, the 3D printing of optics has been singularly the territory of LUXeXceL — a Dutch company that has made tremendous strides with the commercialization of it proprietary process for printed opt…
Funding for Pittsburgh Engineers Set to Enhance Computer Simulation & Qualification Standards for AM
Engineers at the University of Pittsburgh’s Swanson School of Engineering have received funding totalling $450K specifically to further research in two specific areas of their work with additive…
Nintendo Is Surprisingly Open About Its Policy On 3D Printing its Intellectual Properties
Earlier this week I had a chance to speak with Agustin Flowalistik, a designer who is also a great Pokemon fan and has been designing the creatures and releasing low polygon 3D models to download for …
Rome’s 2nd Maker Faire Will Be the Place to Be for 3D Printing This October
Last year saw the first Maker Faire take place in Rome and it was an unexpected runaway success, both for the public and exhibitiors. Judging by the excitement and the intention expressed by many of t…
3D Printed Pinhole Cameras Bring 21st Century Light to New Mexico History Museum
Just one year ago, we wrote up a story on a man named Clint, whose passion for pinhole cameras had led him to launch a Kickstarter for 3D printed pinhole cameras. Writing the story then, I learned th…
An Interview with NVBots CEO AJ Perez: Bringing Automated, Cloud 3D Printing to Classrooms
In the numerous desktop 3D printers that have come to market, one has set itself apart from the rest in many ways. At first glance, the distinctions between the NVPrinter from Massachusetts-based NVB…
Space Race: Future Engineers Opens Space Tool Challenge for The ISS
Future Engineers is taking their 3D printing design competition to space. With a 3D printer now aboard the International Space Station (ISS), it arrived last night, Future Engineers has collaborated w…