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…
The Great Fredini’s Scan-A-Rama 3D Portrait Booth
Who said that magic is dead? I didn’t say that. Did you say that? Well, it’s not. The Great Fredini, the self-described “world’s worst magician”, has found a trick that actually works, onl…
3D Printing Gives Electric “Superbike” Energica More Power
I’ve always thought that, in order to make consumers adopt more ecologically sustainable purchasing practices, all that corporations would need to do is effectively market sustainable products. …
For the Swarm – 3D printed Zerg logo
Yoda from the Star Wars saga has probably been the most showcased fictional character used as an example of what an (FDM) 3D printer can do, partly because of his intrinsic features suitable for showi…
Decapitated: 3D-Printed Predator Trophy
In conjunction with Paramount Studios, who will release the original Predator movie in 3D later this year, 3D Systems have created a booth on the Comic-Con convention floor that 3D scans a participant…
RichRap’s 3DR Delta 3D printer
Progress with delta format 3D printers is coming along in leaps and bounds in a number of Maker Spaces and Hack Labs. Developments such as the modular component schematic of the OpenBeam Kossel, for e…
Dynamism Online 3D Printer Store
Dynamism, successful online technology retailer and producer of Japanese consumer gadgets site Gizmine, is the latest company to join the additive manufacturing fraternity by adding a 3D printing stor…
How Did MakerBot Get Started?
For this weekend’s video feature let us delve into the history of Makerbot, via their own MakerBot TV Channel. With MakerBot’s recent acquisition by Stratasys, it’s good to go back t…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – July 20
3D-Printed Barbie Represents Reality More than Mass Produced Barbie We kind of already know that Barbie is awful. We’ve known it for some time now. The doll is introduced in high school health classes…
3D Printing Coming To USA Education
The massive potential of using desktop 3D printing as a teaching tool is increasingly being recognized: only this month the UK opened it’s education National Curriculum to the technology, alongs…
3D-Printable SLR Camera
Single Lens Reflex (SLR) based cameras are familiar to many for being the type that students, for decades, would learn photography on. The space race and American Indo-Chinese wars such as Vietnam wer…
Making Waves – 3D Printed Speakers
New Zealander designer Simon Ellison has utilized multi-material 3D printing to craft speaker drivers. Working together with an audio engineer, the speaker was conceived to push the boundaries of trad…
First 3D Printing Experiences: Cube vs. Makerbot
At the end of June, I relayed the frustrated experiences of one 3D printing novice from Geek Dad who, in spite of the miracle of 3D printing an object on demand, didn’t see the technology really reach…