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…
Mikey and Danni’s Big Trip to Inside 3D Printing San Jose
As a reminder, the only other expo I’ve been to was a videogame conference that took place in Chicago when I was nine years old, about twenty years ago. So going into the Inside 3D Printing event in …
Networking Reality & Ideas — That is what makes the Future of 3D Printing so Exciting
“Toys are not really as innocent as they look. Toys and games are preludes to serious ideas” – Charles Eames 3DPI is delighted to welcome Ivan Pope as a regular contributor to 3DPI. Here, he sta…
A 3D Printed Robotic Eel: Kind of Makes You go Eww & Wow!
Even after working within the 3D printing industry for as long as I have, and all of the moments of awe and amazement I have experienced over the years, I love it that stories and applications emerge …
Innovation Comes from Europe's Citizens – Dr Anne Stenros
In this contributory post for 3DPI, Ben Deighton, Editor of Horizon Magazine, interviews Dr Anne Stenros, who chaired a group of experts that helped formulate the concept of the EU’s Capital of Innova…
MAKLAB’s Kickstarter, Some Steam Engine History & iMAKR at 100% Design
I met the team behind MAKLAB, the digital fabrication studio based in Glasgow, Scotland, at the first Scottish MakerFaire, in Edinburgh, at the Scottish Science Festival earlier this year. They have r…
Getting Up Close to Rokit’s Edison 3D Printer — In South Korea
South Korea is today one of the most technologically advanced and technologically-obsessed cultures in the world, so it is fairly surprising that 3D printing is relatively rare here. While there have …
Mcor and Staples Myeasy3D Goes Live in Europe
After teasing us since last year about their imminent partnership, the office supply giant Staples, and the only manufacturer of 3D printers that use paper, Mcor, has finally, formally launched the St…
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…