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…
3D Printing the Skeleton of a Live Animal
The use of 3D printing for medical applications has had a wide impact on the sector and is constantly pushing boundaries. One area of interest is in the combination of CT scanning with 3D printing to …
Here They Come – the Beautiful Ones!
Shapeways seems to be ahead of the curve when it comes to getting beautiful people, especially those with high profiles, into 3D printing. There is no denying that high profile names (and faces) grab …
The ‘3D Printer Experience’ Store Opens Today in Chicago
Chicago is the latest city to get its own bricks and mortar 3D printing retail space. Set to open its doors today, “The 3D Printer Experience” will offer its clientele the opportunity to experie…
DesignX – Digital Technology Workshops at the ICFF in May
DesignX is a series of digi tech workshops taking place next month from 18th to 21st May at the 25th annual design fair ICFF at NYC’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The approach is a hands-on one…
3D Modelling/Printing Company Handprint Wins the Feld Google Fiber House Challenge
Brad Feld, a professional investor seemingly passionate about all things tech (and marathons), organized quite an amazing opportunity for start-ups to participate in a competition called the Feld KC F…
3D Printed Customized Joint Replacement – Mayo Clinic
In today’s video feature we see an example of how 3D printing can help people with conditions such as osteoarthritis. Regular joint replacements can bring good results to most people, but how ab…
3D Printed Music
This weekend’s video feature shows an innovative use of 3D printing from art hack day in Stockholm 2013. Rickard Dahlstrand uses a Lulzbot 3D-printer to visualize different classical music pie…
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…