Endeavor 3D integrates CO-AM software in its powerful HP printer fleet
Additive contract manufacturer Endeavor 3D has partnered with HP and Materialise to leverage the Materialise CO-AM software platform for improving its…
Boston Micro Fabrication launches new dual-resolution, high-precision 3D printer
US-based 3D printer manufacturer Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) has launched the microArch D1025, a new 3D printer for the production of micro-scale p…
American companies to make and sell NASA’s GRX-810 superalloy
NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has announced that it has licensed its GRX-810 superalloy to five US-based companies. Unveiled last year, GRX-810 is an Oxide Dispersi…
Quiz: Can You Tell 19 Different 3D Printers Apart by Looking at their Extruders Alone?
For casual and pro 3D printer users alike, this may be the most boring video you could ever watch, but if you’re like me, you’ll watch almost anything. More importantly, if you really are the hardcor…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – August 10th
A Met Intern Produced this Pretty Great 3D Printing Booklet for Beginner The Met Museum’s MediaLab explores emerging technologies that could impact how we experience, view and create artwork. That inc…
KITTAZ: LulzBot Releases Kit Form of TAZ 4 3D Printer
Aleph Objects, the company behind the Lulzbot line of 3D printers, is a fan of constantly modifying their machines with new iterations. From May of last year until May of this year, the company has r…
Yobi3D is Google for 3D Printable Content
In the plethora of 3D printable websites out there, we’ve been awaiting one site to rule them all. Yobi3D may be that site. By entering a search term, Yobi3D pours over the 3D printable content acro…
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…