Monolith AI and Imperial College London granted £500k to build AI tool to assess metal part manufacturability
Artificially Intelligent Engineering (AIE) software firm Monolith AI and Imperial College London have received a £500,000 grant from the UK’s innovati…
Carbon launches its new M3 and M3 Max 3D printers – technical specifications and pricing
Insiders and analysts predict the 3D printing trends to watch in our latest series of articles focused on the future of 3D printing. Carbon, the devel…
New research proposes AM Suitability factor for metal powder selection
New research conducted by the Ecole de Technologie Superieure in Montreal, Canada, and a separate industrial cluster, has proposed a new Additive Manufacturing Suitability (AMS) factor that can rank t…
MakerBot & GrabCAD Present Desktop 3D Printer Challenge – Think 2040!
The latest design challenge for 3D printing comes from MakerBot and GrabCAD. The premise for this collaborative challenge is to design a futuristic vehicle that would exist in the year 2040. It’s a f…
A Slic3r Update
Slic3r – software that generates the required G-code for 3D printing — has recently had an upgrade with improvements and new features added to ‘enhance the printing experience.’ The primary added feat…
Ishtar’s Temple Lion Being Recreated With 3D Printing
The latest member of the league of extraordinary recreations to accompany the dinosaurs and other mythical creatures is one of the lions (believed to be one of four) from a temple dedicated to the god…
3D Printing, Open Source and Arduino — Changing Speaker Design
Robert Scoble from Rackspace interviews Charles Sprinkle an acoustics engineer at Harman – a speaker builder for various brands, such as the high end JBL. He shares his excitement regarding the new so…
New 3D Printing Retail Space in The Netherlands
The Netherlands is the latest country to get a physical 3D printing retail space. 3DSVP is the organization behind this new 3D print shop, which is due to open officially in January 2013. 3DSVP does a…
Key Waffle – DIY Problem Solving With 3D Printing
Tim Potter is a self-proclaimed ambassador for the Libertarist Seasteading Insititute, thus not someone to always necessarily look for the easiest or simplest solution to a particular problem. With hi…
Building Enclosures with a 3D Printer
Landon Cox from Inhale3D.com has been designing electronic enclosures for DIY makers. There are a number of options available these days, and for most cases the standard one-size-fits-all enclosure mo…
Cubify Xmas Ornaments
Christmas time is upon us and the Cubify team is racing towards the year end by launching another new app in the Cubify store. This one allows users to build their own, customised Christmas Ornaments …
$2.5M in Private Equity Funding for leading 3D Printing Service Sculpteo
In a bid to accelerate the growth of its 3D printing business, Sculpteo has just announced that the company has secured $2.5 million of private equity funding from XAnge. Sculpteo is one of the origin…
Get a Gripper — 3D Printed Of Course
Ball bearing grippers — used prolifically in many different types of industrial special-purpose machinery — are one of those products that are easily overlooked, and, let’s be honest, do not generally…
Nanoscale Fabrication – Micropyramids
The living cells are in a field full of pyramids on a micro scale, each “open pyramid” containing a cell that can interact with others. The findings of this new technology research is published in Sma…
Showcasing Ciro Esposito – Italian Aerial Influenced 3D Artistry
Ciro Esposito is an Italian designer, who creates intricately beautiful pieces of art – of both a wearable and showcaseable nature – using 3D printing. Ciro is not a newcomer when it comes…
