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…
Optimizing 3D printing performance with Bondtech’s Core Heating Technology
Core Heating Technology (CHT) from Bondtech, the Swedish manufacturer of world-leading filament feeders, increases 3D printing speeds by over 30%. CHT…
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…
German 3D Printer manufacturer Voxeljet modernizes a 5,000 year old wax investment casting process using 3D printing
Investment casting, or lost-wax casting, is a 5000 year old process that has largely remained unchanged since it was first used by the ancient Chinese. The emergence of 3D printing technologies throug…
3DiTALY Opens Up Second Store and Becomes the First European 3D Printing Social Franchise
With an opening party on Saturday March 22nd, among incredible enthusiasm from local crowds, 3DiTALY’s second store on the Italian peninsula opened up in Pescara, in the central Italian region of Abru…
Sierra Resins and 3D Printlife to Develop Bioplastic Filament for FFF 3D Printing
When considering a viable 3D printing related business, consensus is that “consumable” will be a key focus of a successful venture. That probably comes from looking at the 2D printing current business…
A 3D Printed Customizables Marketplace and 3D Printer Network Rolled Into One
A new Israeli start-up, involved in 3D printing for the past six months, has launched a 3D printing marketplace that they claim will solve many of the constraints and limitations of the technology. Ob…
3DHD Printer Hopes to Combine FFF and DLP 3D Printing, But How?
Unfortunately, Saulo Quevedo’s 3D printer project was unable to successfully launch on Indiegogo after we wrote about it in August last year. That hasn’t caused Saulo to give up, however. Since his i…
3D Printing Heads Up Stream on Steve Ryan’s Yacht
I’m often surprised by the projects that people pursue with their desktop 3D printers. Steve Ryan, for instance, uses his consumer device to design and build yachts. This isn’t an Oak Ridge National …
Bright Minds of Students Made Brighter with 3D Printing at TCT Show 2014
In what has now become a tradition for the TCT Show + Personalize, TCT Bright Minds UK will be returning to the UK-based 3D printing show. A glass-walled classroom will again be set up in the middle …
CoCoRo: A Swarm of 3D Printed Robots to Safeguard the Oceans
The Collective Cognitive Robots (CoCoRo) are a group of 40 mini-submarine robots that can work together to perform complex tasks. They are based on the concept of “swarm robotics”, which says th…
Books and Kimchi…and Filament
It is always enjoyable sitting down with people who have the same level of enthusiasm for a subject as you do. Such was my luck yesterday when I had the opportunity to discuss 3D printing’s future wi…
NK Gallery Exhibit GNI-RI by Nick Ervinck Twists Minds with Distorted 3D Printed Forms
The NK Gallery in Antwerp now exhibits GNI-RI with forms ripe with profundity by Belgium artist Nick Ervinck. Produced using 3D printing, the forms take shape as an art that reveals as much about the …
Out of 1,000 Americans, ⅓ Would Purchase a 3D Printer for the Home
According to a recent report conducted by OnePoll and financed by CEL, makers of the Robox 3D printer, one in three Americans are ready to have a 3D printer in their own home. My post-secondary educat…
Community Maker Space The Exploratory Hosts 3D Printing Class for Kids
Culver City’s The Exploratory has announced a children’s class for 3D character creation and 3D printing. But that’s just one of the many great educational classes and programs available for kid…