CADchat’s cloud-based platform offers a better way to manage product development projects
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Software development firm CADchat has launche…
UltiMaker Factor 4, a new industrial 3D printer for the factory floor: Technical Specifications and Pricing
Netherlands-based 3D printer manufacturer UltiMaker has launched Factor 4, its new FDM 3D printer for the industrial market. The new 3D printer supp…
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…
Wallace Community College in Alabama Receives 3D Printer Donation from China’s Nanjing Zinjin-Lead Electronic Group
In an act archetypical of the globalization in commerce and education in our time, Wallace Community College in Dothan, Alabama has received 3D printers as a donation from Nanjing Zinjin-Lead Electron…
A New Study on 3D Printing From Peer Production – The Industry is Slowly Growing into the Mainstream
A new study on 3D printing has been published by the open source research platform Statistical Studies of Peer Production. It’s a follow-up to last year’s first market research activities …
3D Printing & Space (Part 2): Made In Space
The reader may well, most understandably, find that upon the realisation mankind is on brink of genuinely considering terminology such as ‘home-world’ as a pragmatic, technological, and in…
Blizzident: An All Mouth Toothbrush that Looks like a Muppet
Brushing your teeth is the pits! It takes almost a whole three minutes and you have to painstakingly rub the bristles over each individual tooth until every single one is clean, right? Wrong! Now, wi…
3D Printing and Collaborative Care — A Community Care System in Alabama
Many of you will have seen, and likely been inspired by, the developments of the Robohand project over the course of this year. It has served as a bench mark in many ways, not least in that it has pro…
Research into 3D-Printed Electronic Smart Pump to Treat Heart Disease
One of the essential ways in which 3D printing is aiding the medical field, as detailed in the 3DPI Industry Report on the topic, is through its ability to create treatments tailored to individuals. …
3DP Miniature Organs Herald End of Animal Testing
Modified 3D printers developed at Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina, US, that print human cells in hydrogel-based scaffolds, backed by USD$24m (£15m) from the U.S. Depa…
M.C. Langer's 3D Printed Jaeger Robot – A Recycled and Revamped 3D Design
A former naval officer building functional robots capable of launching missiles might, at first, sound like a potentially alarming concept, but in reality it is actually a beautiful Instructables swan…
3D Printing – How Far Will It Go?
Ivan Pope (make a note of that name) will be chairing the next cybersalon event taking place next Tuesday evening (24th September). The event’s theme is ‘3D Printing – How Far Will It Go?’ and will be…
Finnish Government Grants Funds for 3D Printing Trial in Schools
Following an earlier report about Olli Nuuttila’s initiative for 3D printing in schools, the tech is gaining more and more traction in Finland. The Finnish Ministry of Education has now granted a tota…
Colombian Fashion Designer, Camilo Alvarez, Wows with 3D Printed Accessories
What do you reckon the odds are on writing / editing two stories in a 24 hour period that feature two different designers, utilising 3D printing, from Colombia? Not very high, obviously, because that’…
Voxeljet Joining the Public Ranks? Files for a $100 Million IPO
Voxeljet has just filed for a $100 million IPO. The German 3D printer company, with arguably the largest 3D printing platform available, also manufactures and supplies smaller platforms and an on-dem…