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…
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 …
3D Printed Home Computation
The Turbo Entabulator is, according to it’s rather brilliant creator Chris Fenton, ‘a simple, 3D-printable (caveat: It requires some springs, bearings, rubber bands, and nuts/bolts), fully…
3D Systems Does Metal — Finally
There has been speculation for some time that 3D Systems was looking to acquire metal 3D printing technology to complement its existing and extensive 3D printing portfolio. Metal capabilities were the…
Amazon’s New 3D Printing Store
Did you ever have a small band that you loved? You followed and consumed everything they did? You and 11 other people? Then they had a huge mega-hit and became a world-wide phenomenon and instead of j…
Design Reality Realises Advantages of Multi-material 3D Printing for its Respirator
The design consultancy group Design Reality is excited, as creative minds with access to 3D printing ought to be with the capabilities of multi-material printing displayed by Objet 3D printers. Objet,…
Kickstarter: Xbox 360 in Open Source Laptop Form
Started by family man, entrepreneur and computer engineer with a degree from UT Austin, Amir Husain; and all-around hacker and self-described rock star and soon-to-be ineligible bachelor, Azam Shahani…
Graphene + Boron Nitride = Semiconductor
MIT researchers have taken a major step towards making wonder material graphene with a property called a band gap, which is required to utilize graphene in the manufacturing process for electronic dev…
Florentin Hofman’s Rubber Duck arrives in Hong Kong – With a Miniature 3D Printed Version at Hong Kong’s Toys-R-Us
Dutch conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman’s famous inflatable rubber duck has seen many continents and corners of the internet during its travels around the world of both digital and physical. It was …
3D Printing & China – Umbrellas, Ninja Scooters & Illicit VPNs
If you ever get the chance to eat pumpkin dumplings – just do it! Ride the Shanghai metro, take a cab, compare the civility of the French Concession with the sterility of the Bund, and visit the peopl…
Laser 3D Printing Breakthrough in China
The Chinese Dalian Municipal Government reports that a team at the Dalian University of Technology have developed a trial version of a new type of 3D printer: with an industrial scale output of some 1…
3D Print with Play-Doh or Clay for a Day
There’s a supremely cool new extruder with accompanying materials just released by the folks at Hyrel 3D. They’ve done what Play-Doh wished it would have thought of years ago by making a 3…