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…
UMaine unveils its largest next-generation polymer 3D printer
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! The University of Maine (UMaine) has demonstr…
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…
VoxelJet Application Demonstrates Scaled Up 3D Printing & Scanning For Replication and Preservation
When it comes to 3D printing at (much) larger scales than the applications that traditionally dominate 3D printing news headlines, voxeljet, the manufacturer of large, industrial grade 3D printers has…
Push Puppet Skeleton from i.materialise Scares the Fear of Death Away
Skeletons have always been the funniest thing to me. Like slipping on a banana peel and breaking your back funny. They’re meant to scare you for some reason, possibly because they represent your mor…
3D Printing, Hats & Dutch Politics
imaterialise has been 3D printing another ‘hat’ – I am not sure it comes under my definition of hat — but, nonetheless, the hat in question was for a specific purpose and dramatic political impact. Th…
A New User Focused Materials Source for 3D Printing
A note from Tom Clay (one time CEO of Z Corporation) is enlightening on a number of fronts — for one, Tom has stayed in the 3D printing industry, also, he’s been working on something new, and that …
Functional 3D Printed Replica of the Malevich Teapot
This year it is exactly 90 years ago that Kazimir Malevich introduced his famous teapot in 1923 at the State Porcelain Factory in Saint-Petersburg in Russia. To celebrate this event Geometric Abstract…
Australia’s Own Giant 3D Printer
Australia is best known for the Sydney Opera House, increased UV radiation due to the growing ozone hole over Antarctica and evidence of convergent evolution. So, it’s not surprising that, while Jim S…
Potential Home Metal 3D Printer: The Vader
The New York Maker Faire 2013 bore witness to a very promising home metal 3D printer. This Liquid Metal Jet printer goes by the name of Vader. The Vader metal 3D printer is created by father-and-son m…
Saving Resources by Prototyping with 3D Printing – A Lamplight Case Study
As the potential mega trend of a future with local-based manufacturing and consumption is widely discussed in the academic and business world, 3D printing is often cited as one of the most relevant te…
3D Printing’s Looming Dilemma: File-Sharing, Standards and Regulations
As the roads diverge in the woods, 3D printing will have to make industry defining choices with accommodating its development and proliferation. 3D designs operate from design files shared similar to …
University of Southern California & the Realization of 3D Printed Houses
At ComputerWorld, there’s a great post by Lucas Mearian covering the Contour Crafting talk I mentioned in my review of the Inside 3D Printing Conference. If you missed it, the lecture, titled “Roboti…
Shapeways' New Brass
Leading online 3D print service provider Shapeways has announced two new 3D printing materials: ‘Polished Brass’ and ‘Raw Brass.’ Both are aimed at end product quality, further…
The SmartScarecrow Show & 3D Printing
The SmartScarecrow Show covers alternative energy related discussions, projects and people. For their 5th Anniversary they featured a presentation by Russ Gries from RWGresearch focusing on 3D Printi…
youtube
