Amazemet scaling metal 3D printing with Siemens’ Xcelerator software
Polish metal 3D printing company Amazemet has adopted industrial manufacturing firm Siemens’ Xcelerator software portfolio. The Warsaw Universit…
Formlabs launches new 3D printers Form 4 and Form 4B
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! 3D printer OEM Formlabs has launched its new desktop re…
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 Bioprinting Inching Closer to Reality in New Utrecht Biofabrication Facility
It all starts with (or continues through) education. We just reported that in the US, Makerbot is investing in creating MakerBot Innovation Centers for college students to learn about new advanced man…
The Journey of Laywoo-D3: An Interview with Wood Filament Inventor Kai Parthy
From that first mysterious video of the wood filament, Laywoo-D3, being printed, I was intrigued by the mysterious person behind the camera, writing the white text against a blue background. And when…
With a little help from 3D printing anyone can use The Force, Midichlorians not required
An NYU student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program has hacked The Force. Until now, we thought that only people with very high concentrations of Midichlorians in their blood were capable of …
3D Print Your Own Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover
UPDATE: 123D was discontinued in 2017, therefore links to the Autodesk 123D may no longer function. Autodesk may be helping its partner Makerbot in the advancement of 3D printing in education through …
NASA’s Goddard Center Pursues the Many Space Applications of 3D Printing
You may hear about some of the more game changing developments occurring at NASA with regards to 3D printing, such as the SpiderFab project, the 3D-printed pizza, or the NIAC project for molecular bio…
Polygonica Preps for 3D Color Printing Revolution
Say you’re a company that develops CAD software for 3D printing and a new printer comes out – we’ll call it the Connex3 – that prints with a wide gamut of colours. What would you do? Well,…
DoubleMe3D offers full 3D Scan & 3D Print Services. And takes Bitcoin
You can call them 3D selfies or 3D self cloning, 3D auto-copy or maybe even the familiar 3D scan & print service: we are all a bit narcissistic and the possibility to make a miniature copy of your…
When Pigs Fly: Air Hogs 3D Files are Released for 3D Printing
The Air Hogs design team released the 3D files for the 3D printed cage for their Air Hog helicopters, the Heli Caged Armored Edition. With the release, 3D printer users can obtain and add their own “a…
Fanny's 3D Printed Hip Implant
Just a couple of years ago Fanny, a 16-year-old Swedish teenager, was facing a life in a wheelchair. She suffers from a rare degenerative condition causing skeletal deformities. Fortunately now Fanny …
Rest Devices is 3D Printing Tech That Makes Life Easier
Rest Devices is a start-up company with a couple of MIT grads, who like to tinker. They aim to make simple devices that keep people healthy and relaxed. Planning for their next product they found out …
How Does the Mcor Iris 3D Printer Work?
Mcor’s paper 3D Printer Iris is capable of some really cool full-color prints, but have you ever wondered how it really works? Now is your chance to see inside it!…
3D Printed Eyewear Design Workshop
Eyewear Designer Jeffrey Leung partnered up with SizeChina, a 3D anthropometric research project at the School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, for a 3 day weekend workshop on 3D Pr…