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…
3D Printing An Inflammatory Statement
As controversy goes, this story is going to be right up there! My personal initial reaction to this application of 3D printing was a simultaneous combination of polar opposites — I was both impressed …
Ikea Designer Divines Punk Rock DIY Future with 3D Printing
Maybe it started with Ikea. After a generation of Westerners had become accustomed to ordering furniture shipped in from countries in Southeast Asia, a Swedish company came in and said, “We’ll make t…
Non-Profit 3D Printables Repository Launches at Midwest RepRap Festival
Last September, we covered a free, public repository for 3D printables called Repables. At the time, the site was in something like a Beta-testing state, with only a handful of 3D models available fo…
3D Printing Ensnared by dFab Net’s Network for Digital Fabrication
Can’t you feel it? The congealing of the 3D printing industry, as it becomes larger, more diverse, and more complex? As we enter the third industrial revolution and the second 3D printing revolution …
A Review of Inside 3D Printing Berlin
Berlin, some call it the hidden capital of Germany, it’s nigh on impossible to get direct flights on a given date and at a given time from the North of England, I know that much. I knew a few other th…
3D Printing Goes Large in Berlin — BigRep’s Pictures Do NOT do it Justice
Davide covered the commercial launch of the BigRep One at the 3D Printshow in New York last month, along with a couple of other 3D printers that made their debut at the same show. However, if you foll…
Koenigsegg is Striving to Make the World’s Fastest Car with 3D Printing
Swedish car manufacturer Koenigsegg recently unveiled the One:1, which they believe will be the fastest car in the world. And they used rapid prototyping and 3D printed many of the metal parts of the …
The Endless Permutations of Aardvark by Paul Lopes
When you’re a kid, adults get you to sort of wrap your entire identity up in a individual nouns. What’s your favorite color? What’s your favorite food? Your answers to these things define you for the…
3DPI.TV – Fresh Water with 3D Printed Water Distiller
It’s hard not to be taken in by the humble austerity of the website Make Fresh Water. Under the simple header reads a phrase “Help People.” The site then lays out, in a simple and straightforward man…
3D Printer Parts Find New Life as Air Hockey Playing Robot
If you’re a self-hating pessimist, you might love this air hockey playing robot as it will reinforce your defeatism by beating you every time. If you’re a self-actualizing optimist, you can use this 3…
3D Printing Gets its Finger on the Pulse of Thumbprint Scanners
As we move forward into a dystopian future, polluted with mistrust and insecurity, in which we must scan our thumbs at to get access to our refrigerators, new fingerprint recognition technology will n…
Lulzbot Ninjaflexes its Extruder’s Muscle
There is (or there will soon be, if the video below is any indication) a new filament in town on Lulzbot’s online marketplace. It is called Ninjaflex and it is one of the most rubber-like filaments to…