CADchat’s cloud-based platform offers a better way to manage product development projects
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Software development firm CADchat has launche…
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…
The Northeastern Maryland Additive Manufacturing Innovation Authority Gets an Executive Director
The NMAMIA is an industrial 3D printing advocacy organization that was recently formed to help draw additive manufacturing and 3D printing innovation to local Maryland businesses and to allow for the …
Diamond Plastics Upping Production of Its 100% Reusable Laser Sinterable HDPE
In the progressively complex 3D printable materials scene, more and more companies are getting involved in the ocean of new possibilities opened up by digital additive manufacturing at an ever growing…
3D Printing and Technology Fund Now Available via Charles Schwab and Other Online Trading Platforms
The 3D Printing and Technology Fund, launched by mediabistro’s Alan and John Meckler, has today announced that its Investor Class (TDPNX) shares can be purchased through a number of online broke…
3D Printing, the Gig, and Why You Might Move to Chattanooga, TN – Part 2
To read part one of this two-part series on 3D printing in Chattanooga, click here. Visiting Chattanooga, Danielle and I really didn’t know what to expect. We heard about the Gig and the smart grid a…
Autodesk's 3DRV Tour Keeps on Trucking
Last May Autodesk and a whole host of tech companies – including HP and Stratasys – sponsored a 3D printing road trip with writer TJ McCue. The journey started at San Francisco’s Bay Area …
3D Printing Because You Can: Using a 3D Printing Pen to Make a Working Quadcopter Propeller
You wouldn’t think that a working propeller would be something that could be made with a 3D printing pen, but thankfully maker and aerial photographer Matt Quest tried to do it anyway. Quest first tur…
3D Printed Organ Evolution Continues with BioAssemblyBot
Industrial 3D printing is booming, but consumer 3D printing and bioprinting are growing at an incredible rate in terms of innovation and enthusiasm. 3D bioprinting, in particular, never ceases to amaz…
FabCafe Promoting Maker Culture with Global Fabrication Award
Along with close to 350 Fab Labs in the world, there are also three FabCafes. One is in Barcelona, one is in Taipei, and the third is in Tokyo, three of global centers for the new, personal digital fa…
Professional and Desktop 3D Printing with a $400 Discount from MakerBot Industries
Five years ago if you told any manufacturing company using rapid prototyping that they could get a professional grade FDM 3D printer with 12x12x18 inch build volume AND a desktop 3D printer for $9.300…
Rinkak’s mOment KUMO: 3D Printing Dips Into Traditional Crafting in Japan
Often when new technology enters production conflict emerges between traditional and nascent. Yet sometimes the two can blend with special results, and rinkak’s latest line of 3D printed products exis…
New Funding for Rainbow 3D Bioprinting System That May Replace Animal Toxicity Tests
In the U.S. The National Institute of Health has moved a step closer to help to fund the joint venture of Rainbow Coral Corp. and Nano3D Biosciences. Nano3D has been awarded a grant for work associate…
SpaceX Just Successfully Launched a Rocket with a 3D Printed Part
At the beginning of this year space exploration company SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket on a mission to the International Space Station. The rocket has nine Merlin 1D engines, and one…