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…
UMaine unveils its largest next-generation polymer 3D printer
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! The University of Maine (UMaine) has demonstr…
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 Printed Computation Part 2 — Using a Raspberry Pi and 3D Printer to Make A Portable Computer
An amazing DIY Handheld Rasberri Pi Computer – with instructions to make one! The mobile Raspberry Pi Computer is now available as an open source project courtesy of partspeople. Following are s…
Should 3D Printing Be Regulated?
US New York Council Member Lewis Fidler (D-Brooklyn) introduced a new bill to regulate 3D printed guns in New York this week. The bill would make it illegal to use a 3D printer to create any part of a…
BL 3Dimension Launches 3D EduLab, the All-in-One Education Package
BL 3Dimension Corporation, a retailer of Mcor paper-based 3D printers, Artec 3D scanners and 3D Connexion 3D computer mouse devices, is now in the business of making 3D printing more accessible to edu…
Cosmo Wenman – Making Art Accessible with 3D Scanning
Cosmo Wenman is a man with a dream. His dream is to allow anyone who has ever wanted a sculpture that can only be found in a museum or a gallery the chance to have one. In May 2012 he proved his point…
MCor’s Tremendous Growth Figures Prompt Some Serious Investment
The rise and rise of Irish 3D printing OEM Mcor Technologies continues apace as the firm reports some very impressive figures. In the last 10 months alone Mcor has achieved a 600% increase in sales an…
Printerest: 3D Printables Repository Potential?
Image based social networking site Pinterest is proving a useful — and popular — tool among the burgeoning 3D printing community. Just as Google+ is the network of choice for makers, and Twitter sees …
3DS and the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers Announce Successful Future New Contest
The Alliance for Young Artists & Writers – a non-profit behind the prestigious 90 year old Scholastic Art & Writing Awards – have announced this year’s winners in the Future Now co…
Materialise Announces Warhol 3D Printing Challenge Winner
Ahead of the Rapid 2013 event in Pittsburgh this week, Belgian-based 3D Printing pioneer Materialise sponsored and hosted the opening event at the Andy Warhol Museum, also in Pittsburgh, PA. Marking o…
RichRap Wants to Provide a Conduit between Industry & Makers At TCT Show + Personalize 2013
Richard ‘RichRap‘ Horne, RepRap engineer extraordinaire, is a bit of 3D printing genius. He also combines that attribute with humility and altruism: not always the most reconcilable of tra…
3D Printing for Prototyping — The iDevice Pocket Tripod, Part 1
In the first 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 considers how invaluable, and often o…
Indiegogo Campaign: TrindoCase Innovates Smartphone Protection
When I first heard about home 3D printing a few years ago, one of the oft-mentioned things 3D printers could potentially make for consumers was a new iPhone case. Since then, there have been countless…
GE & GrabCAD Jet Engine Bracket Design Challenge
GrabCAD, the online CAD repository and community, seems to be quite fond of challenging people to show off their skills in various ways with different types of (joint) ventures, whilst simultaneously …