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…
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 …
Distributing 3DP Parts — and Vitamins — With Passion
When I hear about a new start-up company in the 3D printing industry, my first thought is usually to establish which of three categories (self-defined) it best fits into — the band-wagon lot, the legi…
Informal 3D Printing Opportunities in Argentina
I have had word that today sees the scheduled opening of a new 3D printing experience for residents of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The founder of 3DLab Fabcafe, Rodrigo Perez Weiss, is justifiably quite …
SCRIOS – Tabletop RPG with 3D Printed Accessories
Serving 3D printed objects as a side is an approach best served printer-hot, as applications where the tech can be used to create added value for the user are not limited by much else than the creativ…
RepRap U: Rice University’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute
As part of a growing trend of “official institutions” embracing DIY culture (see also Chicago Public Library’s Hackspace or DARPA’s partnership with Make Magazine, etc.) Rice University and the RepRa…
Indiegogo Gives the Little Guy a Go: Saulo Quevedo’s Delta 3D Printer
According to a recent analysis conducted by The Verge, the odds of an Indiegogo campaign reaching its full funding aren’t that high. Only 9.3% of the 142,301 projects posted on Indiegogo have been ful…
FabAllThings – Design Democratization from Dublin
Aspiring writers are a ubiquitous phenomenon. Practically everybody has at least some written skeletons in their closets, whether it be in the form of drawers filled with poems from the delicately unb…
What is Shapeways Up To?
Shapeways has announced an “amazing opportunity” for NYC based designers and artists. Trouble is, they’re being all mysterious about it and have not released any details other than that it’s: “a major…