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…
Shapeways Building a 3D Printing Facility with 5m annual production capability in New York
On Thursday Shapeways opened its Factory of the Future, citing plans of bringing manufacturing back to the western world enabled by 3D printing. The manufacturing site located in Long Island City, NY,…
Autodesk 123D Catch Scanner App for iPhone
Something for the weekend: If you haven’t seen the Autodesk 123D Catch for iPhone in action, below is a cool video presentation illustrating how it works. While there is still room for improvement, it…
Making Multi-colour Art Prints on a Hobbyist 3D Printer
Andre Tiemann, a 3D printing enthusiast from Toronto, was faced with a problem when asked to 3D print a university logo. He wanted to use three colours, but his MakerBot Replicator could only print tw…
Educating the future Workforce in 3 Dimensions!
This video is an inspiring example of an industrial and educational collaboration that brings 3D printing to life, and more importantly, puts it in to the hands of young people at Belton New Tech High…
The Era of the 'Prosumer' & 3D Printing
“Prosumer” — Anyone following the 3D printing industry will have heard that term a lot lately, especially around the recent launches of MakerBot’s Replicator 2 and Formlabs’ Form 1 3D prin…
Original 3D Printed Art Via Polychemy
The online consumer market for 3D printed goods is continuing to evolve, with more and more channels offering the key advantages that this technology offers a discerning clientele, namely stunning vis…
HRH, The Duke of Edinburgh Gets to Grips with 3D Printing
On Tuesday last, HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh was the guest of honour at an event celebrating the renaming of the Royal Academy of Engineering and opening of the building. John Burn Ltd, U…
Inspiring Real Kids in the Real World with 3D Printing
On Tuesday I tweeted a link to some press coverage about the opening of a new advanced technology centre — at a high school. Well I attended said opening yesterday, having been invited to cover the ev…
Current State And Future Predictions for the Growth of the 3D Printing Industry
There are vast opportunities for the 3D printing industry to grow exponentially in the next few years — indeed, in February of last year Business Insider suggested that it will be the next trillion do…
3D Printing Does Retro — Check Out the Bioscope
A novel 3D printing application has been highlighted by i.materialise in the last 24 hours. The Bioscope is the brainchild of independent designers Simon de Bakker and Jon Stam and it is retro cool. …
If a 3D Photo of your Unborn Baby isn’t good enough – how about a 3D printed model?
Mashable has produced a fascinating video insight into how a Japanese company has come up with the ultimate in anti-natal keepsakes — an intricate, and precise, 3D printed model of your unborn baby. M…
The 3D printed Art of Cosmo Wenman
Cosmo Wenman is certainly a memorable artist. What he has created is something unique — yet very familiar. In the future, his approach could enable art critics (classical or otherwise) to admire this …
