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…
Adafruit Shows You How To 3D Print a Comfortable Oculus Rift
Two very different materials, Ninjaflex and PLA, are combined in a DIY wearable HD monitor project by Adafruit. By 3D printing a rigid frame and a soft, comfortable hood for the their visor, Adafruit …
NASA to 3D Print Space Cameras in One Single Piece
About the amazing possibilities that 3D printing will offer space exploration, we have written everything and more. Paragon Space Development’s CEO Jayne Pointer told us how it will be key in long ter…
Silky Smooth: BioFila Offers PLA-Free Alternative Filament with Lignin.
Sometimes it is by a return to what is most natural that innovative technology finds a remarkable breakthrough. BioFila appears to have an answer for a fully biodegradable filament that comes in two t…
QSQM Needs Help Giving Away Free Uncia 3D Printers to Schools in Asia
At the beginning of the month, Chinese 3D printing company QSQM Technology Corporation launched an Indiegogo campaign for a new upgraded and higher quality Uncia DLP 3D printer. Thankfully they didn’t…
Disney Researchers Use Physics and 3D Printing to Create Impossible Spinning Objects
Apparently ‘Disney Researcher’ is a job that really exists, and a group of them have just developed a way to calculate the exact distribution of mass within an object, in order to control its center o…
Gambody Startup Wants Gamers to Play into the 3D Printing Revolution
The relationship between gaming and 3D printing is a subject that I am most attentive to, probably because the synergy between these two, very similarly three dimensional, creative expressions has not…
New 3D Hubs Trend Report Shows Distributed Manufacturing is Evolving Rapidly
The new monthly trend report from 3D Hubs for the month of July is in and, as usual, it contains an extremely wide set of information that accurately depicts one aspect of the 3D printing industry, th…
US Army Developing New FALCom 3D Printing of Composites for On-the-Field Use
Recently, I have had the opportunity to better understand how materials development will determine the future of industrial metal 3D printing, consumer 3D printing and 3D bioprinting. Previously, my o…
Meshbombs: Jason Ferguson Discusses His 3D Printed Street Art
A Meshbomb is a form of subtle street art, in which an object is “borrowed” from a public location, 3D scanned, replicated, and returned to its original location alongside its new, 3D printed sculptur…
3DPI.TV – The Future of Coffee Mugs – with 3D Printing
Some of the coolest 3D printed creations are made with ceramics and the best part about them is that they don’t need to be incredibly intricate to be innovative. Sometimes they just look like simple c…
Stunning 3D Printed Artwork Made from Imperfect 3D Scans
Using a laser scanner on her subjects, artist Sophie Kahn transforms damaged 3D data into incredible 3D printed sculptures and video installations. The Brooklyn photographer and multimedia artist’s se…
Free Software Converts Parts of 2D Images into 3D Models
3D printing hardware is amazing and its constant innovation will probably never cease to amaze us. If, however, you are looking for something different, the advancement in 3D software is just as incre…