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…
3D Printing Because You Can: Creating a 3D Printable Mechanical Pencil
After being encouraged by a co-worker, maker and blogger Angry Monk took on the challenge of 3D printing a working mechanical pencil all in one print. The pencil is fully functional and is rather styl…
Normal Has A New Custom Product for Your Earhole
Welcome to the new normal. A 3D printing company out of New York combines technologies to offer truly customized earphones. Despite what many headphone and earphone manufacturers might have the public…
Bits To Bullets: Australian Military 3DP’s New War-Making Strategies & Tactics
Ever since David introduced the sling to Goliath, military innovators have been looking for the next best way to best the next enemy on the battlefield. Digital creativity — no respecter of national f…
Will CraftBot Rival The Biggest 3D Printer Crowdfunding Campaigns?
2013 and 2014 has seen a mushrooming of the number of companies incepting the manufacture of prosumer 3D printers. Despite what some would consider an increasing rate of market saturation for the rang…
Coming Up – The First Bio-printing Event in Singapore
Bio3D Technologies Pte Ltd and 3D Matters Pte Ltd. state a strong belief that 3D printing of living cells and biological materials – otherwise known as bioprinting – will bring great poten…
Dell Expands its Partnership with MakerBot into the UK
In January Dell signed an agreement with MakerBot that added their 3D printers to their Dell Precision workstations, becoming their exclusive supplier of FDM 3D printers and they have now expanded tha…
Will 3D Printing Make Drones Part of Our Everyday Lives?
When Amazon announced it would one day be using drones for rapid delivery of goods most laughed, some thought Jeff Bezos had gone crazy and others enjoyed themselves making funny video memes on Facebo…
UK High School Students Get High Marks for Their Amazing 3D Printed Lamps
A group of final year students at Ladybridge High School recently showed off 3D printed lamps of their own design at the schools annual Arts, Products and Textiles exhibition and their imaginative wor…
A Review: Nottingham International Conference on AM & 3D Printing 2014
My annual sojourn to Nottingham was this past week, to attend the International Conference on Additive Manufacturing (AM) and 3D Printing (3DP), hosted by the Additive Manufacturing & 3D Printing …
An Interview with Daniel Büning — Talking 3D Printing, Art & Architecture
Daniel Büning is an Architect and a Researcher who combines emerging computational methods, with the utilization of novel cutting edge manufacturing technology to create digitally informed architectur…
Light Up the Night with Your 3D Printer
Here’s a good weekend project for RepRap 3D printer owners, specifically owners of a Prusa i3 with an acrylic frame. If you’ve seen some of these newer 3D printers outfitted with slick bl…
Museum Employee plays 3D Printed Violin
F-F-FIDDLE is an open source 3D Printed violin that can be produced using common FFF-type 3D printing equipment. If you’re dreaming of being a violinist, maybe this would be a good chance to sta…