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…
Custom 3D Printed Fountain Pens from Pjotr
A fascinating and quite beautiful consumer-facing business model that uses metal 3D printing in a fundamental way to produce bespoke products is Pjotr. The company has been established by the Dutch de…
Midas Touch – Augmented Art Project for the Visually Impaired
A team of Harvard students have joined together with the aim of making art accessible to the visually impaired by using 3D printing as means to reach this goal. In an interview with Venture Beat, one …
3D Systems Brings New Software Release — Geomagic Design
When 3D Systems introduces a new product, you would be forgiven for automatically assuming that there is a new 3D printer on the market. In this case you would be wrong, as the company released news t…
Barobo’s Mobot-A – A Modular Robot Constructed of 3D Printed Parts
If you ever wanted to get into robotics by actually building something yourself utilising 3D printing or teach someone else about the subject, but didn’t know where to start or look for inspiration, a…
Middle School Lab Devoted to Advanced Manufacturing Education
In what seems to be the fulfillment of a promise by Barack Obama to increase the competitiveness of US schools, Buford Middle School in Charlottesville, Virginia will be opening a lab school devoted t…
RappiDelta on Kickstarter
Large scale 3D printers are of interest to many industries and individual makers. UK-based David Akers has developed his own version of a delta type 3D printer that can produce objects beyond the boun…
Mbot Cube 3D Printer – Just a little bit naughty!
I think I may be somewhat behind the curve on this one but I don’t appear to be the only one. I had one of those weird moments the other day when I saw something that is obviously intended to discombo…
German RepRap’s X400 Receives a CE Certification
X400, the moderately priced prosumer-grade 3D printer from German RepRap with a huge build volume, has received CE certification according to DIN ISO 9001 proven standards. In practice – and using the…
Develop3DLive 2013 – Round 2 of this Annual Event went Bigger and Better
I spent an informative 24 hours at Develop3DLive 2013 – the very successful second edition of the product design and development event held at the Warwick Arts Centre hosted by the X3D Media team — an…
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 …
PENROSE — An Open Research Programme from TNO
‘Penrose’ is an open research consortium based on the premise of sharing information with a view to facilitating the rapid adoption of Additive Manufacturing. Initiated and launched by TNO, based in t…
3D Printer Manufacturer voxeljet Takes Over British 3D Service Provider Global TCT
By the end of this month, leading industrial 3D printer manufacturer, voxeljet, will be adding a UK-based 3D printing service to its extending portfolio. Voxeljet is taking over the British service p…