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…
3D Scanned and 3D Printed “Smart Replicas” Combine Past Beauty and Augmented Usability
Those among us who are museum goers and have an appreciation for the beauty of objects from centuries past must have felt frustrated by the minimal access that a museum can offer to these objects. Tha…
Remanufacturing with Optomec’s LENS 3D Print Engine
Optomec recently announced that its LENS Print Engine for metal components has been adopted by the Center for Remanufacturing and Resources Recovery (C3R) at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT…
Boeing and Lotus F1 Team to 3D Print Carbon Reinforced Parts
As 3D printing tries to make its way into mainstream manufacturing, there are still some kinks to be worked out. For aerospace companies, like Boeing, 3D printed parts need to meet a strict set of re…
Youbionic Works to 3D Print Arduino Controlled Bionic Hands
One of the most important developments in 3D printing over the past two years is the creation of low-cost 3D printable prosthetic hands. Beginning with Richard Van As and Ivan Owen’s partnershi…
Fashion Conference SOURCING to Feature 3D Printing
Fashion designers, brands, and distributors will be in for a 3D printed surprise at this year’s SOURCING at Magic event. The conference for fashion resources across the supply chain, held from …
3D Hubs’ 3D Printed Dream Is Growing Exponentially with New UPS Deal
Among the many promises of 3D printing, in the realm of wide scale adoption, two stand above the rest: personalized manufacturing and distributed manufacturing. Sometimes the two are considered one an…
Japanese Artist Arrested for Distributing 3D Printable Vagina Selfie
42-year-old Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi was just doing what any curious person with a 3D scanner would do by creating a CAD file of her genitalia, but when Tokyo police found out that she was dist…
GE Announces the Launch of Mass 3D Printing Facility
GE has begun to enact its plans for the mass production of its 3D printed jet engine fuel nozzles. At the Farnborough Air Show, today, the company announced plans to outfit its Auburn, Alabama facili…
3D Printing Goes Analog
Look at this amazing analog rube goldbergian looking 3D printer. It uses no electricity, no computers, has no automation of any kind and is constructed entirely from spare parts and other low cost mat…
Smart Atoms Is Taking it All Back To Physical with 3D Printed LaMetric Device
So in a sea of crowd-funding projects that can all start to look a little similar to each other, it happens that one rather simple idea can stand out as one of the most interesting and well developed …
NASA Just 3D Scanned a Nebula. Then They 3D Printed It.
Using the European Southern Observatory’s massive telescope and X-Shooter spectrograph, researchers at NASA created the most detailed spectral map of the massive Homunculus Nebula to date. Then they c…
World Maker Faire New York 2014 Is Coming Back To Town (Part 2)
Yesterday I covered the work of the good folks at Maker Media (MM) that has resulted in a national — and indeed global — “maker” phenomenon. As the movement heads back to NYC in a couple of months for…