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…
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…
Crowd Funded 3D Printing Demos for Disadvantaged Youth
Not only is 3D printing exacting, painstaking and complex to master successfully, but it is also hugely inspirational and aspirational. The idea that we have a process by which you can hold in your ha…
Fancy a Quickie? The Latest Design Challenge from Shapeways is Short & Sweet
Shapeways seems to be seriously ramping up its marketing activities of late — even more so than usual and right across the board. I think Savannah might have quite a bit to do with that. And this week…
If You Can't Stop it, Trace it — Personalised Forensics and 3D Printing
Earlier this year, Cody Wilson’s Defence Distributed scared many of us with the potential menace of putting a gun “anywhere there’s a computer and an Internet connection”. The varied respo…
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez Uses 3D Printing Technology to Create Venus of Google
Artist Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has used Shapeways’ 3D printing technology and a “Hill Climbing” algorithm to birth the Venus of Google. The Roman goddess manifests from the foam of the sea in mythol…
LOHAN to Get High Enough to See Stars: 3D Printed Spaceplane from The Register
Not since Lance Bass was going to shoot himself into oblivion has a celebrity made space-related headlines like The Register’s PARIS and LOHAN projects. In 2010, the Special Projects Bureau of UK tech…
D3D's Dual and Quad Extruder Head Campaign on Kickstarter
An FDM extruder, which is sized similar to a normal part but has a dual-head, or, doubling it down with a quad-head fitted into a space currently only seen to boast two heads; and if such a part was a…
3D Systems Launches Cubify Sculpt
3D Systems has today revealed its latest 3D content tool — Cubify® Sculpt. Available immediately, via the company’s online community and store Cubify, Cubify Sculpt is said to be a ‘powerful virtual c…
3D Printers of the World Unite – PrintToPeer's Giant 3DP Sculpture in the Making
Measuring size can mean very different things depending on the perceived context and subjective focus. From evaluating an object’s physical size to understanding the cultural or technological im…
3D Printed Dress of Pia Hinze Features in Muuse x Vogue Awards
Pia Hinze in one of a new generation of fashion designers and last week she contacted us to introduce us to her new, and first, graduate collection — “Néobaroque”, which includes a startli…
IF you need it, extra 3D Printed Incentive to back the Fuel3D Scanner
Last week I reported on the Fuel3D scanner, currently sourcing funding on Kickstarter. Well, even with 19 days still left on the clock, the success of the campaign is phenomenal. The money pledged is …
Smallholder Women Farmers in Africa To Be Aided by 3D Printed Prototype Tools
With new funding, 3d4AgDev hopes to develop labour-saving tools for smallholder women farmers in Africa. The program has kickstarted funding with efforts from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Gr…
Israel to Provide 3D Printers from Top to Bottom
The Reut Institute, a non-partisan and non-profit organization, is based in Tel Aviv, Israel that helps to shape policy in the region. The group set up Israel’s first open source 3D printing lab late …