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…
NASA Contractors Work to Provide World Wide WiFi, Space Station Pizza, and Everything in between
Working with contractors who spoke at the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo, NASA hopes to utilize 3D printing technology to deploy wafer satellites and 3D printing stations for manned missions. …
What 3D Printing Could Mean for China
In June, the South China Morning Post reported that billionaire Terry Gou called 3D printing technologies “a gimmick.” As the founder of the world’s largest contract manufacturer of …
Drilling into Additive Manufacturing
BlueFire Equipment Corporation (OTCQB: BLFR) announced recently that it is exploring additive manufacturing techniques for the production of its proprietary polycrystalline diamond cutter (PDC) drill …
Space Qube – Old School Shoot 'Em Up with 3D Printable Space Ships – Done Correctly!
The universe is infested with dangerous monsters threatening all life! An outcry which sounds quite ominous, but despite the immediate associations to colonies of planets struggling under an Ridley Sc…
3D Metal Printing Supports Production of Better Irons
Most of my shirts never see the heat of an iron, but I do have one for funerals and weddings and I know that better groomed people use them all of the time, so I know how important they can be. Rowent…
Autodesk's Video Take on Maker Faire Toronto 2013
In case you missed Maker Faire Toronto, here’s a small video from Autodesk to see how it was. There’s some cool 3D Printed objects to be seen and one cardboard knight!…
3D Models For UK – 3D For US
The latest start-up to offer a miniature model has hit the web recently, a UK company called ‘3D For US.’ The company produces models for you directly from your photos, creating a realisti…
Copyright and 3D Printing: Everything Old is New Again
From “Player Piano”[1] rolls to “Betamax”[2] to “Napster,”[3] the American Judiciary has hosted a seemingly endless parade of intellectual property disputes over the years all foretelling the end of c…
Radiant Li: Democratizing 3D Design
Last week, we covered the Lionhead 3D printer and its launch on Kickstarter, but I wanted to elaborate a bit on a couple of important aspects of this machine, the Radiant Li software and some of its a…
LumiFold – a Maker-friendly, Truly Portable 3D Printer for $400
Even though there have been a few attempts to create a portable 3D printer – Ben Heck’s iterative projects being probably the most famous ones – real commercial applications in this sector have …
3D Fractal Trip – Surreal but Mesmerizing
Fractal images are pretty cool, but what’s even cooler is 3D fractals. That’s right. Check out this video by Jeremie Brunet – it is quite a fractal trip. At times it looks like you m…
MixeeLabs Latest Customizer: Molecules Make the World Go ‘Round
I don’t know what it is about being able to print out and wear different molecules that makes this seem so cool to me. Maybe it’s because I studied psychology in undergrad and, so, associate all huma…