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…
BEEVERYCREATIVE Joins the World of 3D Printing Education
3D printing can blend art, engineering and awesome fun into a single process, making it a very appealing technology to bring into the classroom. In the past year, more desktop 3D printer manufacturer…
Olaf Diegel 3D Prints an Entirely New Kind of (Non-Musical) Instrument, the OddBot
Writing on the convergence of 3D printing and music, I came across this work by 3D printed instrument craftsman Olaf Diegel that didn’t fit in with the rest of his designs. If music is 3D print…
U of Nottingham Researcher Wins Prestigous 3D Printing Award
These days, there are a lot of 3D printing conferences floating about, but, as you glance over the names, you may be able to distinguish between two general classes of conventions. Any event that has…
Marines to Test 3D Systems' 3D Printing Toolkit Live During Annual Wargame
We’ve written, on more than one occasion, about how the world’s various armed forces might utilize 3D printing in the field of battle. With mobile labs like the Rapid Equipping Force, engi…
How 3D Printing Changes the World of Music
3D printing and music stem from two different areas of the sensual spectrum, with music seemingly isolated to the realm of hearing and 3D printing as sort of a tactile, visual thing. You can guess, th…
Ready for Jurassic Dinos? GoEngineer and Paleontologist 3D Print Stunning Dryosaurus Skeleton
Taking us one step closer to Jurassic Park, paleontologist Jeffrie Parker from Western Paleo Labs and Kirk Brown from Stratasys’ reseller GoEngineer successfully printed a detailed model of Dryosaurus…
Using 3D Printed Tools to Build Their Cars is Just How Opel Rolls
For German car company Opel, 3D printed tools are not, as with many 3D printing applications, an experiment but rather an essential part of their manufacturing process. Each ADAM ROCKS car – sol…
Proto Service Offers Top Metal 3D Printing Tech to Italy’s Top Companies
I know it is just a matter of advanced electronics and mechanics but Arcam’s EBM industrial 3D printing technology is just cool. EBM — or Electron Beam Melting — which in Italian sounds even cooler (f…
Ittyblox 3D Prints Your Simulated Cities On Shapeways
While 3DPI cannot report on every single new item appearing on Shapeways, there are some items that just give more food for thought than others. Especially in light of the recent Pokemon Infringement …
NY NOW Foreshadows New Uses Of 3D Printing By Its Community
One of the advantages of living and reporting in New York City (well, to be a Borough chauvinist, Brooklyn, actually!) is that sooner or later the world comes to you. Often in the form of a trade show…
3D Printed Prototypes Helped This Sleep Sensor Score Over $2 Million on Kickstarter
Last month tech startup Hello launched a Kickstarter campaign for their Sense sleep aid system looking to raise $100,000 but found themselves with almost $2.5 million dollars and close to 20,000 backe…
Check Out this Great Online Show Pilot for Emergent Technology
The pilot is called ‘Best of our Knowledge’ and the first episode focuses entirely on 3D printing and the ways that it is beginning to shape our future. The show was created by Steve Overmyer and Clay…