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…
UMaine unveils its largest next-generation polymer 3D printer
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! The University of Maine (UMaine) has demonstr…
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…
NeoPixel 3D Printed Project Wants You to Skate on Your Arduino Board
3D printing, along with other user target technological innovations such as Arduino Boards and NeoPixel LED’s have made it so that today it is possible – and it can be a lot of fun – to cu…
Amazon Adopts 3D Printing with Tech Specific Product Page
After about a year of slowly adding 3D printing shops onto the ecommerce site, Amazon has officially embraced 3D printing as the retail method of the future by opening its own 3D printing product page…
Threeding 3D Printables Marketplace Launches Amazon Fire App
As the world awaited the Amazon Fire Phone, so too waited online 3D printables marketplace Threeding, who, upon the Fire’s release, had a release of their own. Modifying the Threeding Android ap…
How Olaf Diegel 3D Prints his Guitars
Olaf Diegel has been 3D Printing some pretty awesome musical instruments – from guitars to keyboards and drums. On the clip below Olaf takes you through all the steps he needs to go through in m…
Local Motors’ 3D Printed Car Drives the 3D Printing Industry into the 21st Century
Since the technology first hit the scene some thirty years ago, the media has been making wild predictions about 3D printing’s capabilities. At CES in January, industry analyst Todd Grimm relayed a st…
Leading Precision Parts Manufacturer Adopts 3D Printing to Stay Competitive
3D printing continues to prove itself a valuable service for yet another large tooling and manufacturing company as James Tool starts offering 3D printing services in order to stay relevant within its…
Here is What Is Next for Materialise, One Company that Unifies 3D Printing
Materialise’s recent IPO brought in around $125 million for the Belgian company to invest in its future. During my trip through some of the top 3D printing companies in Northern Europe I just had to s…
Uncia DLP 3D Printer All Set to Hit Indiegogo Priced at $299
The widespread expectation is that desktop DLP 3D printers will be the next evolution in consumer adoption of the technology but, if QSQM Technology Corporation, the company behind the Uncia DLP 3D Pr…
NASA Just Released an Entire Library of 3D Printable Models
Hot on the heels of releasing a 3D printable model of the Homunculus Nebula and announcing that they’re shooting a 3D printer into space NASA just released a whole library of 3D printable models inclu…
Crowdfunding & The Low-Cost Desktop 3D Printer: A Suicidal Race To The Bottom? (Part 2)
Part 1 of this series presented an introductory view of crowdfunding vis a vis 3D printer start-ups and the dynamism, democratization, distortions and dangers this new and novel mode of bankrolling fo…
Renishaw’s AM 250 Metal 3D Printer Driving Record Revenues
While it is the UK’s only metal 3D printer manufacturer, Renishaw’s £355.5 million record yearly revenues are still derived mostly from the company’s other precision industrial equipment, which includ…
San Francisco’s Robot Garden is A Robotics Themed Makerspace
Founded in 2013 by Daniel Casner and Andra Keay, Robot Garden is a family friendly makerspace in the Tri-Valley area of the East San Francisco Bay. Of course robotics are just the beginning of what Ro…