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…
Suspended Depositions: Hair Gel 3D Printing with an Undo Function
There’s something about 3D printing with metal and plastic that just feels so absolute, so finite, so… done. Nothing that reflects the true impermanence of existence. 3D printing with a bi…
Kickstarter: Volumental’s Free Cloud Scanning Service Adds Printing
Volumental has been around since 2012, when it first got people excited about its free, cloud-based scanning app. Now, the Swedish computer engineers behind the scanning app are going the full mile a…
NASA Awards Project for 3D Bioprinting Anything You Want
Don’t hold your breath yet, but NASA is funding a project that may make it possible to someday 3D bioprint anything that you ever wanted, needed, or never knew you wanted or needed. As part of Phase …
Make it Stand: 3D Printed Objects That Don’t Tip Over
With 3D printing, you can print objects with almost any interior geometry you can imagine. Typically, this has been taken advantage of to reduce waste through the printing of semi-hollow rather than …
3D Systems Engineer’s Giant RepRap 3D Printer
Messing up royally is meant to teach us a lesson about how to achieve success during subsequent trials. If it’s embarrassing, devastating, even painful, we will remember, in our minds and muscles, to…
Biocompatible 3D Printing Firm Wins Contract from Northrop Grumman
Thanks to a partnership made possible by the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), the flagship institute for the Obama administration’s National Network for Manufacturin…
3DR RepRap Delta Printer Release
Richard Horne (aka RichRap) has released the source and design files for his latest development – the 3DR Delta printer. http://richrap.blogspot.co.uk/ This 3D printer has been designed this year and …
A Peek into GE’s Additive Manufacturing Lab with Prabhjot Singh and Joris Peels
Joris Peels at VoxelFab recently conducted an interview with the manager of the GE Additive Manufacturing Lab at GE Global Research, Prabhjot Singh. The interview, complete with Joris-style analysis, …
3D Proliferation Prevention
3D-printed weapons are not something that I am feign to report on, given the 100,000+ items – constructive items – on Thingiverse.com alone that could be written about in their stead, but …
Design & Crash A 3D-Printed Car!
Attendees of the Industrial Designers Society of America’s international conference, August 21-24, Chicago, are being invited to design a 3D-printed car! The top 10 designs will be selected in advance…
Attack On Pirate3D & Open Source
The open source and Creative Commons protection debate may be about to hot up in the 3D printing and Maker community. Nick Colleranos from Toronto, Ontario, Canada has not just copied the world’…
Native 3D Printing: First MS, Now Linux
Fresh on the back of the backing of 3D printing by Microsoft last week, with their announcement that a 3D Printing SDK will be included in the pending Windows 8.1, a popular Linux operating system, Fe…