CADchat’s cloud-based platform offers a better way to manage product development projects
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Software development firm CADchat has launche…
Meltio and Accufacture launch new large-scale DED 3D printer for the US market
Metal 3D printer developer Meltio and Michigan-based industrial automation firm Accufacture have introduced the Alchemist 1, a new large-scale robotic…
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…
A 3D Printed Heart Within a Decade
A collaboration between the University of Louisville and the Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence promises the potential of producing new hearts from a patients own cells within a decade. Earlier this …
3D Rendering Competition: Open Source Space Shuttle
The Exosphere ES-1 open source space shuttle design project is a campaign even more ambitious than 3D printed rockets and open source rocket engines. The pre-Kickstarted campaign is looking for 3D ren…
360Heros: Record Anything and Everything
Since the beginning of time, humanity has desired the following three abilities: the power of flight, precognition, and, of course, the ability to see from all 360 degrees at once. The first was accom…
3D Printed Pets – The Absolute Solution for the Socially Awkward (and the Socially Conscious)
We as the members of the human race can be considered and labeled as collective animals, who tend to identify ourselves mainly by reflecting on the people around us and on other living creatures– as t…
3D Printed Guitars by Olaf Diegel
Guitars. Has ever a sexier musical instrument been conceived? We hug them close to us, ergonomically crafted to reverberate close to our heart. No wonder we fall in love with them. Now, materials and …
Creating Electrodes Via Two-Photon Polymerization
The Tokyo Institute of Technology and C-MET, Inc. led by Daicho and his adviser Shoji Maruo have sought to develop a new conductive, moldable, 3D-printable resin. The premise of the new resin is the p…
3D Printed Bronchi Splint Breathes Life for a Child
Technology and medicine embraced in Michigan to give a future to a child once fated to never leave the hospital. In the first ever experiment and surgery of its kind, Doctors at C.S. Mott Children’s H…
The New US Patent Trolling Executive Order & Freeing IP for 3DP
The White House today introduced a study for an executive order intended to combat patent trolling. Patents have been a significant obstacle to progress and innovation in the 3D printing sector for so…
XYZ Shoes – Custom Footwear by Earl Stewart
Recently, I was watching an episode of the Colbert Report in which the guest was Daniel Lieberman, professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. Lieberman explained that the use of shoes in most of mo…
3DS & SYNNEX join forces with North American Distribution deal
3D Systems has signed a major distribution deal, which gives them a strong – though yet of course potential – foothold of the North American 3D printer market, on both professional and personal/…
Innovation at Upcoming Mackay 3D Printing Expo
Australia’s first 3D printing expo is forthcoming this month. It is due to witness the innovative Bajtech Positional Control System, which promises to combine additive and subtractive manufacturing pr…
Beautiful 3D Printing With Worms at MIT
3D printing has become one of the key tech trends of the moment. But, in turn, 3D printing is far from only one technology. Which technologies maintain their place within 3D printing is something that…