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…
Optimizing 3D printing performance with Bondtech’s Core Heating Technology
Core Heating Technology (CHT) from Bondtech, the Swedish manufacturer of world-leading filament feeders, increases 3D printing speeds by over 30%. CHT…
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…
CGTrader’s Latest 3D Printing Challenge
3D file sharing site, CGTrader, has just launched a new 3D printing competition for 3D printable models — the aim being to (re)discover your inner child and design your favourite character — in 3D and…
Take A Peak Inside ‘Crash Space’ — The Above Ground, Underground Hackerspace Community in LA
The sound of heavy metal whirring amid conversations about the coolest things I can imagine will be a signal that something is happening. This group will not be like the ones that preceded it. These p…
Mataerial – 3D Printing Without Physical Limits?
My persistent outcry for new, truly innovative 3D printer hardware that would stand out from the crowd – both in terms of tech and aesthetics – seems to have been partially answered by an obviou…
W. Afate: Recycling 1st World Waste into New World Solutions
The cost of technological progress is that, with each exponential leap of Moore’s Law, obsolete machinery is cast away as garbage. And, because discarded electronics often contain harmful components …
MakerNet
Here I take a fully speculative view of the current business models shaped around 3D printing and what they may look like a few years down the line as the evolution of this technology continues apace.…
China to Open 10 3D Printing Innovation Centers
If I know anything about foreign affairs and international economics – and I don’t know much – I’d say that China’s entry into the world of 3D printing is a signal that this technology is …
Autodesk and Makerbot With Big Plans to Democratize 3D Design and 3D Printing
Back in March, Makerbot and Autodesk announced a partnership with the aim of bringing 3D design and 3D printing to “everyone”. The premise of this partnership is that the two companies will “jointly d…
UP! Plus2 – Automatically Calibrating Sub-$2,000 3D Printer
Unsurprisingly, there have been a lot of new hardware announcements in the 3D printer sector this year, with some trying to completely rewrite the rules and some offering more ‘traditional’ solutions.…
Justappi Update
A month or two back I reported on the emerging Justappi 3D file repository and hosting service. Since then, having checked back a couple of times, things have gone rather quiet. Until, that is, I rece…
3D Printing Hits Mainstream in Finland – In the Form of The Liberator
Living far up north – more specifically in Finland in my case – typically means, that even though the so called ‘western world’ that we Finns live in is digitalized and globalized, new ideas and…
InMoov, the Free, Open Source 3D Printed Robot is Motoring
It’d been awhile since I caught up with Gaël Langevin and his awesome InMoov robot, but when I did, I found that Gaël was still able to impress. The robot, designed by a prop sculptor based in Paris, …
History in Another Dimension – Scanning the Smithsonian in 3D
From scanning and printing a statue of Thomas Jefferson to scanning an entire find of whale fossils, the staff at the Smithsonian Museum are no strangers to 3D scanning and 3D printing technology. Fou…
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