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3D Printing Comes to Washington — Again!
There are a lot of unanswered legal questions about 3D printing. The tremendous growth in the use of Rep Rap inspired printers over the last two years has created an altogether expected, but nonethele…
Doodle3D – Simple Sketching Tool for 3D Printing Goes Live on KS
Doodle3D – not to be confused with the 3Doodler pen – is a simple software based sketching tool, specifically designed by the creator Rick Companje of FabLab Amersfoort for WIFI compatibility with 3D …
On the Development of Accessible 3D Printed Robotics: An Interview With Chris Chappell
A couple of weeks ago we brought 3DPI readers the inspiring story of a self-taught teenager’s 3D printed robotic hand. As with most great future-oriented solutions, however, there are almost always mo…
Self-taught Teenager’s 3D Printed Robotic Hand
There’s been a lot of coverage on 3D printed medical applications recently, once of the huge growth areas of the technology. Prosthetics in particular have featured strongly, such as the heartwarming …
How to Design Breakthrough Inventions
For those following 60 Minutes closely, you may have seen this piece of Rose Charlie on David Kelley, the man behind IDEO – a company that has created thousands of innovations including the first mous…
Ben Heck’s Double Decker 3D Printer
Benjamin J. Heckendorn – known in the virtual world as Ben Heck – is a tech-savvy tinkerer, who is famous for his modifications applied to different consoles and personal computers. As a man that is p…
Making Space Invaders with 3D printed wood
At the last Toronto 3D Printers meetup, I finally got a chance to check out some LAYWOO-D3 wooden 3D printing filament. If you’re not familiar with it, LAYWOO-D3 is basically compressed sawdust – mixe…
KickStarted 3D Printing Projects
Major venture capital firms are yet to embark on the 3D printing gold rush and it is to be seen how long it will take to see the first major investments to materialize. So far we have seen couple of i…