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…
Optimizing 3D printing performance with Bondtech’s Core Heating Technology
Core Heating Technology (CHT) from Bondtech, the Swedish manufacturer of world-leading filament feeders, increases 3D printing speeds by over 30%. CHT…
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…
3D Systems Grows with New Acquisitions, 200,000 Sq. Ft. Manufacturing Facility
3D Systems, a company already known for numerous acquisitions, has continued its latest growth spurt with the purchase of sister companies American Precision Prototyping (APP) and American Precision M…
Shapeways Announces Full-Color 3D Printed Plastic
Though the media is filled with 3D printed models made of full-color gypsum, often 3D printed copies of people made from realistic scans, that sandstone material is fragile and must be treated with ca…
Guess What Radio Shack is 3D Printing for a Chance to Win a $50 Gift Card
Between 9 am and 9 pm EST today, you have a chance to win a $50 gift certificate from Radio Shack. All you have to do is to guess what the Shack is 3D printing on their Afinia H-Series 3D printer. T…
Blacksmith All-In-One 3D Printer and 3D Scanner is Live on Indiegogo
After teasing over the weekend with an introductory video, Blacksmith, a young company incubating at NTUitive (Nanyang Technological University) has officially launched the Indiegogo crowd funding cam…
EOD Life is 3D Printing Functional Land Mine Replicas
EOD Life is a small 3D printing startup that creates collectables and training devices aimed at the EOD community. Their 3D printed landmines are functional replicas that the company intends to sell f…
Biomimicry Inspired Soft Seat Makes Comfortable Seating More Natural
It may seem paradoxical that a lounge chair entirely made in polyammide – the artificial polymer also known as nylon – is more natural and sustainable than any soft seat made by more tradi…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 6)
In Part 5, we left Kickstarterwith a problem from the “funding success” of too many YowzaPrinters (see Part 3 for my definition)—but with “yikes!” results, post the funding milestone. KS has bec…
3D Printer Company Be3D Shifts Focus to Industrial Design
Czech 3D printer manufacturer Be3D has announced a unique direction for their company and will begin focusing on a new market by offering a line of 3D printable products, in addition to continuing to …
Zortrax Looks to Take Over the World with 3D Printing, Seeks Resellers to Help Them Do It
No, Zortrax is not the name of a Superman villain. It’s a Polish company that made waves last January when the relatively small and unknown 3D printer manufacturer received an order for 5,000 3D print…
India’s Oldest 3D Printer Company Makemendel Offers More Than Just 3D Printers
While the 3D printing industry in India has been on fire lately, Makemendel has been quietly producing well-regarded and inexpensive 3D printers for over two years. Though they may no longer be the on…
3D Printed Video Game Characters Are Getting Smarter with Things3D
So far, the only video game characters that have effectively made the “transition” from the virtual to the physical world have been those born in the universes of Activision’s Skylanders: Spyro’s Adve…
LittleRP 3D Printer Blows Past Kickstarter Goal in Less Than One Day
In May, 3DPI covered an open source projector-based resin 3D printer that aimed to hit Kickstarter with an opening price tag of less than $500. This morning, the LittleRP did just that and, before I …