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…
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…
Reut Institute's XNL Contest – Designing Special Products for Special People
Even though 3D printing is entering the space age as 3D printers head out of this world with NASA, the tech is also capable of meeting more mundane — but highly inspirational — challenges right here o…
Bitter Sweet — 3D Systems Acquires The Sugar Lab
3D Systems has acquired 3D printing confectionary start-up The Sugar Lab. Based in LA, California this micro-design firm was founded by husband and wife team Kyle and Liz von Hasseln, and as Mike repo…
Repables: Thingiverse Made Open (Again)
A new 3D model repository is coming, or so promises the Repables homepage with a header that reads, “It’s kinda almost ready! Get started now…” When there are vast repositories out there already, like…
MoMA Teens Remix Famous Works of Art with Shapeways
I’ve always wondered if having more access to technology in high school would have made me a better student. I got A’s and B’s, mind you, but I just wasn’t that into learning. I didn’t see the point! …
Stratasys Announces its 10th Annual Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge is On!
Stratasys’ Extreme Redesign 3D Printing Challenge is celebrating its 10th anniversary and as such, this year the contest will feature previous winners, as well as instructors who’ve had their students…
Significant Growth for Optomec in First Half of 2013
Industrial 3D printer manufacturer, Optomec, whose offering includes platforms that print metals and electronics, recently reported its financial results for the first half of 2013. The figures are lo…
This Just In: A 3D-Printed Sticky Note Holder!
Last month, we covered a Michigan Tech study which concluded that 3D printing common household items could save consumers between $300 and $2,000 a year. Well, user corben33 has designed an object fi…
ADIDAS: All Day I Dream About (3)D (Printing) Soccer
The Hong Kong creative studio, AllRightsReserved, recently collaborated with renowned sportswear brand, Adidas, for a 3D printed ad campaign and interactive art installation that will really knock you…
3D Scanning is The New 3D Printing And A Closer Look at Dimbody
Hype-wise, it seems 3D scanning is “the new 3D printing”. New product launches are hitting the market at increasing frequency, and while some are clearly more thoroughly and comprehensively thought ou…
A Summer of 3D Printing ‘Immediate Objects’
A collaboration between the School of Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Printrbot, Taulman 3D and Simplify 3D, resulted in a very successful summer of 3D printing for the incoming Master of Design stud…
Trick of Light Transforms Room Into Eerie Forest with 3D Printed Lamp Cover
Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of ‘being and becoming!’ That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world. – Ernst Haeckel Two Denmark-based a…
Tesla Motors Founder Gives 3D Printing that Patented Pungent Musk
Billionaire business magnate, Elon Musk, aka The Real Life Tony Stark, envisions a not-too-distant present in which 3D modelling and computers are much more intuitive. By employing a variety of innov…