Endeavor 3D integrates CO-AM software in its powerful HP printer fleet
Additive contract manufacturer Endeavor 3D has partnered with HP and Materialise to leverage the Materialise CO-AM software platform for improving its…
Eplus3D launches new metal 3D printer with up to 64 lasers
Chinese 3D printer manufacturer Eplus3D has launched the EP-M2050, a new large format Laser Beam Powder Bed Fusion (PBF-LB) 3D printer which features …
American companies to make and sell NASA’s GRX-810 superalloy
NASA, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration, has announced that it has licensed its GRX-810 superalloy to five US-based companies. Unveiled last year, GRX-810 is an Oxide Dispersi…
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…
The Economic Consequences of Misguided Educational Decision Making
Knowing Maggie Philbin’s background – a technology orientated BBC presenter, who has set up her own children’s ‘TeenTech’ enterprise to counter her frustrations at the UK government’s “lack of action”…
Trains Trams and 3D Printed Models
Guido Mandorf, a vintage tram enthusiast, living in Dusseldorf, has found a better way to bring back the past by utilising cutting edge 3D techniques, including 3D printing, to fuel his hobby. From th…
Updated version of Faro’s free SCENECT 3D scanning software
FARO, the US-based NASDAQ-listed company specializing in 3D measuring and imaging software and devices, has released a new version of its Scenect 3D scanning software, with the latest iteration being …
French Survey Copter partners up with Stratasys to create 3D Printed Drones In-house
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or as they’re more commonly called drones are not exactly a new concept – neither in the most familiar military context or in other more peace-oriented settings. However…