Slant 3D’s API update features new filament options
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Slant Concepts spinoff Slant 3D has updated its 3D Prin…
Rosotics unveils new metal 3D printer and partners with Siemens to “revolutionize” manufacturing
Metal additive manufacturing company Rosotics has launched the Halo “supercreator,” a new large-format metal 3D printer targeting aerospace, naval, an…
AM goes green with 3devo’s new SLS powder recycling process
Register now for our Additive Manufacturing Advantage online event for insights on AM developments in aerospace, space, and defense sectors from industry leaders! 3D printing material proces…
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…
Ultrafine Particles and the Potential Risks of Printing without Ventilation
Before anyone tells you that 3D printing will kill you and says, “First the guns! And now this?!”, remember: everything is dangerous. It’s true. Even if you point a kitten at someone…
3D Printing Store iMakr on BBC, Tuesday
iMakr, London’s first, though now apparently not sole, 3D printing Store – which lays a rightful claim to also be the world’s largest – will be on show this Tuesday on BBC Brea…