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…
Wanhao’s Bargain Bin replicators
While writing up a post about the Dutch 3D printer shop RIDIX, I came across a Chinese 3D printer manufacturer, Wanhao. There are probably folks in the desktop 3D printing community that have already…
History in the Re-Making, Voxeljet 3D Prints St. Lambert’s Cathedral
There are so many amazing projects going on in the 3D printing world that, as repetitive as it may get, it is always best to contextualize them. The latest project from Voxelijet (and you know that wh…
A Road to Everywhere: Thoughts on 3D Printer World Expo and M&M's
I had a vague idea of what I wanted to see and visit at 3D Printer World Expo, however I’ve learned that it’s never wise to sketch too detailed of an itinerary for a convention of this nature. Much li…
Architecture Students at Pratt Touch Tip of Iceberg with 3D Printed Resort
Two undergraduates at the Pratt Institute of Architecture used Acropora and Rhino to design an artificial iceberg acting as a resort and 3D printed the model with a MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Prin…
MakeVR Goes Live on Kickstarter
There’s been a lot of MakeVR in my life lately. After reading up on and finally getting exposed to MakeVR’s virtual reality 3D modelling system, the software (and accompanying hardware) has finally l…
102 Creations is the South Bay’s First Filament Supplier
I was in the middle of writing Rachel an email when I saw an ad on the sidebar of my Gmail page. I think I had noticed that there were ads there, but had become so accustomed to them that my brain com…
Can Organs Be 3D Bioprinted? A Stem Cell Trachea Will Tell
In four limbed creatures such as human beings, the trachea is the windpipe that lets the air we breath flow into the lungs: just like life, it is fragile. Without it we could not breath, nor speak, no…
What Might the US DoD Want with 3D Printing?
After first looking at the America Makes institute back when it was called the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, I began wondering what the Department of Defense (DoD) and the defe…
Makers of the World Unite at MakerDays — with 3D Printing
I apologize but the temptation to use Karl Marx’s famous slogan to describe the new MakerDays initiative was just too strong to resist. In fact the comparison is fitting: the aim of MakerDays is to br…
Materialise Sets Up to Tap Polish 3D Printing Market with Acquisition of e-Prototypy
Materialise has just announced its acquisition of e-Prototypy, Poland’s leading provider of rapid prototypes and 3D printing services, in apears to be a strategic geographic extension of the Belgian 3…
3DPI.TV – 3D Printing and Space Travel a Match Made in Heaven?
From rocket prototypes to moon and mars bases, from future planetary rovers to made in space and gravity-less 3D printers, everything that has to do with future space colonization also has to do with …
BEETHEFIRST Desktop 3D Printer Drops Prices
BEETHEFIRST, the desktop 3D printer out of Portugal, has seen a drop in price! According to the manufacturer, BEEVERYCREATIVE, the reduction in price comes from an increase in production, which has al…