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…
Spotlight on Resin 3D printing survey
When 3D printing began in the early 1980s, it was with photopolymer resins and technology developed by Charles “Chuck” Hull. After the invention of stereolithography, Hull would go on to found 3D Syst…
Making Big Things on a Small 3D Printer
Many hobbyist 3D printers have pretty generous build envelopes these days. Large objects, even made in a few pieces, are quite practical. On an older device like my MakerBot Cupcake, the build envelop…
Research into Light and Durable 3D Printed Fractal Structures
We have seen quite a few examples of 3D printed objects being tweaked with different structural software and algorithms – for example by hollowing out or adding new parts in order to make them lighter…
New 3D Software Innovations from Materialise
Materialise, the Belgian-based 3D printing pioneer, introduced its latest software innovations at EuroMold 2012 held in Frankfurt last week, which included some very interesting enhancements. One of t…
3D Systems Takes Quickparts Global
One of the nuggets of news that came from 3D Systems at Euromold last week was that the company’s Quickparts service is coming to Europe. It kind of got lost in all of the 3D printing activity, includ…
3D Printed Strandbeest – New Version
Animaris Geneticus Ondula, the latest creation from the Ducth artist Theo Jansen is not only a handful as a name, but a very impressive and complex 3D printed creation that walks along the beach. This…
Cubify App – Customise Your iPhone with 3D Printed Cases
Customising your mobile phone has been a lucrative business as long as we have had small portable phones available. Cubify has just recently added a new section to its online store, where you can make…
Afinia Adds New Filament Options to 3D Printing Material Range
Afinia, suppliers of the Afinia H-Series 3D printer, has just recently introduced three new varieties of its ‘Value Line’ ABS Filament. The newly added materials include transparent filament as well a…
How 3D Printing fits into My Chosen Career of Model Making
Amanda Darby is a freelance sculptor, model maker, CG modeler and 3D printing specialist. She is based in Bristol and works with a wide range of companies across the UK. Here she shares some of her ex…
Scaling Up With the Spiderbot 3D Printer
Ben Peters – an MIT student studying new fabrication techniques at the Media Lab’s Mediated Matter group – is responsible for developing an interesting 3D printing project called Spi…
3D Print Barometer — To Print or Not to Print
One of the often overlooked realities about 3D printing is that it cannot print anything and everything. So even while 3D Printing tech continues to improve and become an even greater value propositio…
Something for the Kids: Printrbot jr. @ Kickstarter
The man behind the successful Printrbot 3D printer, Brook Drumm, is sourcing funds for another project at Kickstarter: Printrbot jr – a 3D printer aimed directly at kids. Printrbot jr. is not just any…
Improbable Objects at the Beach
3D printed art from Improbable Objects and What It Is will be on show at the 2012 Aqua Art Miami exhibition. The four-day exhibition will start tomorrow 6th December and is held at the AQUA Hotel in M…
