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…
All Metal Extruder – Micron 3DP
When 3D Printing, have you experienced material getting stuck inside the filament guide or the nozzle? Micron E.M.E Ltd has created an extruder that promises to make this problem the stuff of p…
3DPI.TV – 3D Systems Acquires Gentle Giant Studios
In line with its now established strategy over recent years, 3D Systems Corp is throwing its net even further afield at the start of 2014, announcing the acquisition of Gentle Giant Studios, the leadi…
3D Systems’ Consumer Focus on 3D Printing Includes Acquisition of Gentle Giant Studios
You don’t even get one guess at who made the first acquisition of 2014 in the 3D printing industry. In line with its now established strategy over recent years, 3D Systems Corp is throwing its net eve…
Ben Heck Gives 3D Scanning a Good Go
The Ben Heck Show is a look at all things tech and hack, with Ben himself taking on fun and interesting projects each week. He has done episodes on 3D Design programs, quadcopters and even glue…
Wireless Energy – A 3D Printed AtmoMotor HV
Laserhacker.com has been experimenting with Atmospheric Electricity Motors – getting energy wirelessly. How it works is that there’s an antenna that receives atmospheric electricity which …
Cobra Beer and Prototyping Other Things Impossibly Smooth
Cobra Beer has launched an interesting marketing campaign titled the Cobra Diversification Division. They already created an impossibly smooth beer, so the question was “what else is possible?…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – January 4
Many 3D Printing Patents Are Expiring Soon: Here’s A Round Up & Overview of Them I. Background 3D printing is a 30-year old technology that is currently entering the mainstream, to great fanfare. …
Restoring Art, Culture & Peace in Afghanistan with 3D Systems' Tech
Crawl back through history 1,500 years to the Valley of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, in the 6th Century. You’d see Buddhist monks laboriously and meticulously etching two large statues of Buddha fro…
Afinia Puts Up Its Dukes to Defend Against Stratasys Lawsuit
This should make CES a bit awkward next week… After Stratasys stunned the 3D printing community by filing a lawsuit against Afinia, makers of the H-Series FFF 3D printer, at the end of last year, the …
3DPI.TV – 3D Printing with Meta SpaceGlasses
2014 is already looking like a great year for 3D creativity. Assembled 3D printers are coming out priced at under 500 euros, new low-cost high-quality 3D scanners are launching and, if that weren’t en…
3DPI.TV – Put on your Sweet, 3D Printed Chocolate Face
One of the current drivers for mass 3D printing adoption is self-replication. We have covered the subject quite a few times on 3dprintingindustry.com, from iMakr’s “Selfies at Selfridges” to home deli…
3DPI.TV – Mitsubishi Enters 3D Printing with a Metal 3D Printer
Mitsubishi Corp, noteworthy for being the largest trading company in Japan, is all set to enter the American 3D printing market this month when it will introduce and sell a metal-forming 3D printer de…