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…
Goal Ball Athletes Get in Touch with Their Surroundings with 3D Printed Tactile Maps
I will never get tired of discovering how 3D printing’s physical nature is making many aspects of life more accessible to those who use their sense of touch to perceive objects and environments. After…
An Army of 3D Printed Vases is Marching on Kickstarter
If the world of human-made artifacts more closely resembled the world of nature, we wouldn’t see huge batches of identical, mass-produced goods that sit on shelves for an entire season before be…
3DPI.TV – 3D Printed Braille Mobile Phones for Kids & the Elderly
The possibility of 3D printing mobile phones at home might be a strong contender to be a killer app for 3D Printing . It will take time to prove this, but the 3D Printed Braille phone, OwnPhone could …
Blowing Up a Delicate Timepiece with 3D Printing
Nicholas Manousos is a horologist, a studier of the measurement of time. He is also a computer scientist and engineer. With all of those interests combined, Manousos is fascinated with the beauty of…
Quantum Dots to Hinder 3D Printed Counterfeits
If we imagine a possible future in which the majority of goods are 3D printed and there is a large black market for 3D printed bootleg objects, there will also be an industry for preventing 3D printed…
Liberty Bell Painstakingly Recreated with 3D Scanning
The Liberty Bell is famous for its crack, and not just the type you find in the park after hours. No, after the bell cracked in the early 19th century, the fissure itself has become an iconic part of…
The Coming Ecosystem of 3D Printing: Part 3
Driving 3D Printer Drivers: A Fast Developing Part of the 3D Ecosystem In part 1 of this article series, Ivan Pope introduced his overview of the 3D printing industry’s ecosystem and then part 2 docum…
3DPI Editorial Round-Up: June 2014
Another month has come and gone and we are exactly half way through 2014. Where has that time gone? Blink again and it will be Christmas! At 3DPI it’s been another busy one. We continue to grow the te…
Turn Your 2D Idea Into A 3D Print
Drawing is something that most people have engaged in at some point in their lives. Many people have ideas. But not many people, relatively speaking, can express those ideas in three dimensions. Most …
Stratasys Is 3D Printin’ n’ Truckin’ with Autodesk on the 3DRV
The eight-month 3DRV road show kicked off in mid May — right in the middle of the Bay Area Maker Faire — in San Francisco: with Autodesk, Stratasys and other big tech names on board, it is going to ma…
This Summer The (NYC) Makery Pops-Up Again With More AdHoc 3D Printing Workshops
Four Digi-Fab and 3D Printing visionaries built The Makery — “instant” hacking labs, itinerant tinker dens and deployable digi-faberies. This quartet continues “popping-up” 3DP-informed maker places t…
Truly Delocalized 3D Printing Productivity with New TOME Project
One of the biggest benefits of 3D printing is de-localized production. That means you can put a bunch of 3D printers anywhere in the world and have a small, environmentally sustainable factory. That, …