Endeavor 3D integrates CO-AM software in its powerful HP printer fleet
Additive contract manufacturer Endeavor 3D has partnered with HP and Materialise to leverage the Materialise CO-AM software platform for improving its…
Boston Micro Fabrication launches new dual-resolution, high-precision 3D printer
US-based 3D printer manufacturer Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF) has launched the microArch D1025, a new 3D printer for the production of micro-scale p…
American companies to make and sell NASA’s GRX-810 superalloy
NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has announced that it has licensed its GRX-810 superalloy to five US-based companies. Unveiled last year, GRX-810 is an Oxide Dispersi…
3D-Printed Reactionware Gives Objects New Properties
One of the most interesting and, to me, most complicated fields of 3D printing research is that of 3D-printed reactionware. As someone who has only in my adult life learned to appreciate chemistry, t…
Marble EcoDesign: Marble Waste to 3D Printing Gold
One of the most hopeful prospects of 3D printing is the use of recycled waste as functional building material to promote sustainable manufacturing processes. There are countless examples of production…
Stampomatica: A 3D Printing, 2D Printing Fusion
Stampomatica is a 3D printed series of micro-machines to print 2D business cards and postcards. The team behind Stampomatica call it ‘the meeting point between past and future, vintage and innov…
Financial Tombstones Encase 3D Prints for Commemorative Purposes
I’m no businessman, but I can close my eyes and imagine: There’s a nice cherry-oak desk with hand-carved legs (belonged to my grandfather); a large window overlooking the well-manicured lawns of Silic…
Absorbing Echoes with Perfect Pitch and 3D Printing
Rotterdam based designer Foteini Setaki leads the creative practice Studio Phi with additive manufacturing and acoustics for harmonious designs. Her project, “Absorbing Echoes”, aims to enhance health…
Arcam Visited By Royal Family
King Carl XVI Gustaf and representatives from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) visited Arcam during their study trip in West Sweden last month. Arcam’s technology, which is beco…
McDonald’s Dreams of 3D Printing
It seems that HP, Staples, UPS and Asda aren’t the only large corporations to jump on the 3D printing bandwagon. Everyone’s favourite “chicken” nugget supplier also dreams of incorporating the hottest…
Seeing the World Through 3D Printed Frames
We’ve covered companies pursuing the use of AM in producing unique eyewear, but these firms have relied on plastic. Both the Bay Area Protos and the German Mykita use Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) …
Encryption Through Destruction with Disarming Corruptor
Artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is interested in distorting the forms of 3D printed objects as a means of conveying the translation processes that occur in the digital and physical worlds. 3D scans d…
Teens Replicate Artistic Masterpieces in MET’s Program with Cubify Sculpt and Cube 3D Printer.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art held a teen program promoting the swirl of art and technology with 3D printing. Over this last summer, the MET held a guided event with selected teens from the New York …
Solid Concepts Is Lastest 3D Printing Vendor in the Fashion Stakes
The AVEDA Congress is a world-renowned hair show, so you would be forgiven for wondering how on earth that links to 3D printing but it does — in the unique and complex forms of three high-fashion head…
Canon & 3D Systems Finalise Distribution Agreement 3D Printers
Since 3D Systems announced that Canon Marketing had joined its network of resellers in Japan much excitement has circulated investment sites. Here at 3DPI we get that investors tend to read the invest…