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…
3D Printing On-Demand: MixeeLabs Mixes It Up
There are certainly a lot of online services for buying and selling 3D-printed designs. At first glance, MixeeLabs would appear to be simply another iteration, but, you soon realize that it’s no…
Miniature Batteries — 3D Printed
Batteries – those oft vital, oft overlooked items that power many facets of the electronically-driven lifestyles that many of us have succumbed to. And batteries are the latest “thing” undergoing rese…
3D Printing in Malaysia Highlighted by Materialise Conference
At the end of last week, and into the weekend, Materialise Sdn Bhd, the Malaysian branch of the pioneering 3D printing company, hosted a conference for the region. The conference, which utilized the t…
Pirate3D’s Buccaneer Sailing Close to $1m & Now with Smart Support
With less than two weeks until their Stretch Goal deadline, Pirate 3D Inc is within $50,000 of the proposed one million dollar mark. Close to 2,500 contributors have invested in the Kickstarter as of …
Filabot: Free Your Legos and the Rest Will Follow
Take your children’s toys, grind them up, and print something you like. That’s what Filabot is all about! Well, so, they don’t actually do that? But the company, famous for the Filab…
3D Printing for Prototyping — The iDevice Pocket Tripod, Part 2
In this, the second of a two-part interview with Rambod Radmard, the designer and creator of a new, innovative iPhone case that is currently on Kickstarter, Shane Taylor continues to ponder, along wit…
Siderits’ 3D Printed Bird Cage
Every pet owner knows that keeping the beloved animal(s) stimulated both mentally and physically and thus content can sometimes prove to be an enduring and challenging task and invariably has a signif…
Forbes Ranks 3D Systems Fourth on its ‘America's Fastest Growing Tech Companies 2013’ List
Forbes likes lists, and lets face it, we like lists too, particularly if we’re featured on those lists and even more so if it’s near the top. So the great and the good at 3D Systems are likely doing a…
The RepRap Simpson Revolution
Here is a thing that looks like it won’t work. When its designs were first introduced to the RepRap forum/community, some members immediately began speculating that it lacked the sturdiness to complet…
Daily Mail Reports on a Personal 3D Printing Application — Shoes — with Mixed Results
In recent months the volume of texts and phone calls I get from my nearest and dearest has increased quite significantly. The volume increase of my digital communications is almost entirely due to the…
3D Printing Sculptures: After the Mermaid … The Pig …..
If you haven’t checked out the contemporary sculptural genius of Eric van Straaten, you really should — whether you are interested in 3D printing (the sculpting medium), or not. I highlighted his merm…
Scientists in Japan Create 3D Printing Resin with Bionic Brain Implications
When my grandfather developed Parkinson’s, I started undergraduate school as a Biological Sciences major. He knew this and pulled me aside during a family visit to tell me with a smile and a wink, “Ma…