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…
Which U.S. Agencies Are First to Open 3D Printables Sites?
In March, Make Magazine reported that there had been a White House memo to federal agencies to make three dimensional files more available to the public. Back then, the best examplewas perhaps the Smi…
In Order to Form a More Perfect Union: a Crowdsourced 3D Printed Ben Franklin
Earlier this year, a group calling themselves We The Builders – founded by Todd Blatt, David Fine. Matthew Griffin, Amy Hurst, Ryan Kittleson and Marty McGuire, and enabled by 3D scanning compan…
The Blacksmith Genesis 3D Printer and Scanner to Launch on Indiegogo August 12
Next week, a new desktop 3D printing/3D scanning combination machine called the Blacksmith Genesis plans to hit Indiegogo. Ramping up to the campaign, the Singapore-based Blacksmith Group has already…
Stratasys Reports a Record Quarter with 35% Organic Revenue Growth
Most (large and small) 3D printing companies are growing, and growing fast. Stratasys, the industry’s second largest (only a few million dollars a year behind 3D Systems, based on the last full FY) in…
Adobe's New Photoshop CC Updated with More 3D Printing Features
At the beginning of the year, Adobe began adding support for 3D printing to it’s subscription-based Photoshop CC program and has continued to tweak and update it regularly since. Their latest update i…
Glass Blown 3D Printing: Roos Meerman’s Aera Fabrica
By combining different forms of production, Roos Meerman has created something called Aera Fabrica. The process combines elements of blow molding, 3D printing, and glass-blowing techniques. Essentiall…
Hacking a 3D Printer Into a Pick-n-Place Machine for Electronic Components
Maker Eric Boyd and his team on Hackaday have cooked up a way to convert your 3D printer into an electronics pick-n-place machine and then back into a 3D printer again when you’re done. The project is…
3D Printed Organic Photovoltaics Cost Less and Catch Sun Rays on Cloudy Days
Any energy production system will need to become more environmentally sustainable, if it seriously wants to continue to exist at all. And 3D printing may be the manufacturing method of choice. Giants…
The Bio3D Life-Printer: One Step Closer to Affordably Bioprinting Complete Organs?
Bio3D Technologies is a new start-up from Singapore that announced they are releasing their country’s first 3D bioprinter, called the Bio3D Life-Printer. It may be capable of 3D printing living human …
Build Your Own Foldable TeeBotMax 3D Printer
A 3D printer that can easily travel with you is probably not an everyday necessity for most people, but it was for Emmanuel Adetutu. So, he decided to design and build his own compact 3D printer that …
Griffin 3D Launches Three Sizes of Delta 3D Printers on Kickstarter
St. Louis start-up Griffin 3D has launched not one, but three different models of it’s Delta style 3D printers on Kickstarter, allowing you to pick the size printer that you need, while also allowing …
3DPI.TV – Buy a 3D House Printer for €12,000
After all of the news surrounding 3D printed houses you might consider printing your next home. But for that you’ll need a house printer. Slovenian business BetAbram wants to be the first to sell 3D…