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 for the Masses at Trideus.be
The massive wave of 3D creativity that originated in Northwestern Europe has been at the forefront of bringing 3D printing to the masses. Visionary artists such as Janne Kittanen, now at 3D Systems, f…
Solid Concepts Think Big at the Pacific Design & Manufacturing Tradeshow
Solid Concepts — a company that has managed to stoke much publicity regarding their announcement of the world’s first 3D printed metal gun, as I covered in a somewhat controversial 3DPI article …
Maxing iPad Loudness with 3D Printing
Whilst Apple’s iDevices are designed to require a relatively low requirement of vital ‘hidden-cost’ add-on peripherals — in part because of the vast amount of non-vital paraphernalia that …
GE’s 3D Printing Know-How Benefits Oil & Gas Division
GE Aviation’s LEAP engine was, in some ways, hailed as a proof-of-concept for how 3D printing could be used in mainstream manufacturing. Playing off the success of the engine’s 3D printed metal fuel n…
German RepRap Tweaks its X400 3D Printer
The X400 from German RepRap has been covered here on 3DPI before, both when it was released and when it received its CE certification. The large printer, with a print volume of 400 x 400 x 350 mm (alm…
LeapFrog Convinces Retailers to Go 3DP
Trying to convince retailers to adopt 3D printing? Dutch 3D printer manufacturer, LeapFrog, has produced a brief brochure, titled “Desktop 3D Printing: Adding Value for Retailers”, outlini…
Smooth 3D Printing Accessories are a Hit on Kickstarter
Christopher LoBello has quickly reached his Kickstarter goal for the Makeraser and Makelastic accessories for finishing 3D prints well ahead of schedule. Both products, which Mike introduced last year…
Are Wikihouses Going Up Everywhere?
You have probably all already heard about the Wikihouse project. How hard is it really to build an open source house? Is it as hard as getting something published on Wikipedia with no prior experience…
New Maker Kase Stainless Steel 3D Printer Cabinet on KS
A new promising Kickstarter just launched for The Maker Kase, a durable and customizable cabinet intended to protect your 3D printer or for use as a model makers drying cabinet. And while the stainles…
3DPI.TV – RAPPY 3D Printer with Brushed DC motors
In the world of makers and 3D printing everyone can use his or her own expertise to improve on the design, functionality and inner workings of the machines. As an engineer you would work on how the ma…
3DPI.TV – Stratasys Unveils Multi Colour Multi material 3D Printing
Stratasys has taken the covers of what we all knew was coming — ever since Neri Oxman exhibited her “Imaginary Beings – Mythologies of the Not Yet” in Paris back in 2012 — and that is multi-colour, mu…
Indian 3D Printing Project Is Helping the Visually Impaired to “Fittle” Right In
The amazing aspect of writing about 3D printing is that a new application is not just news but often opens the door onto a new paradigm of potential applications. Sometimes they are obvious, other tim…