Italian shoe craft is known throughout the world and its myth is made up both of high fashion designers and experienced shoe makers, who have passed their craft on for generations. Now, both have to transition into the digital manufacturing…
4-Year-Old’s Complex Heart Anomaly Surgically Repaired with 3D Printing
Adaenelie Gonzalez was born with a complex heart anomaly. By the time she was 4 years old, she had had two open-heartsurgeries. Unfortunately, her condition was only temporarily relieved by these major operations. The blood from Adaenelie’s heart doesn’t flow…
Photon Elephant Wants to Turn Your 3D printer into a Smartprinter with New Kickstarter
A few days ago, an interesting company named Photon Elephant (best name of the year) announced the launch of its Kickstarter campaign. The campaign is funding Raspberry Pi-based 3D printing software and hardware that “lives directly on your 3D printer”. If you…
3D Hubs Kicks Off 2015 with its January 3D Printing Trends Report
At the start of the new year, distributed 3D printing network 3D Hubs has released its first monthly trend report. The 3D Hubs trend reports analyzes the uses and opinions of both desktop and industrial 3D printing in the 3D…
Free 3D Printable Model of the Week: 500-Million-Year-Old Starfish
The free 3D printed model for this week comes from SketchFab user 3D Fossils,who uploaded an extremely detailed model of a 500-million-year-old starfish last week. It was found in the Kataoua Formation in Morocco. Luckily, you don’t have to travel…
Shapeways to Form its Own 3D Printing Network
Shapeways is an interesting company. They are actually the first 3D printing company I was ever interested in. I was living in Queens when they announced that they were opening up a second 3D printing facility about 10 blocks away…
Hospitalized Children to Receive Virtual Zoo Tours from the 3D Printed InMoov Robot
By now, you may be familiar with the InMoov robot. My first post for 3DPI detailed the work behind Gaël Langevin’s open source, 3D printed robot. With the help of the online community, Gaël’s robot has taken on a series of…
World’s Sweetest Boyfriend Inspires 3D Printing Valentines Day Contest
Kids’ Creation Station is the awesome service that was created to allow parents to turn their children’s 2D drawings into 3D statues. But, when their service was used in an unconventional way, it inspired them to play the part of…
FELIX v3.0 3D Printers Now Bundled with Materialise Builder
Last week, some of the biggest news coming from 3D printer manufacturer Leapfrog 3D was that 3D printing software developer and service provider Materialise would be powering the manufacturer’s 3D printing software. Leapfrog Builder, for the company’s Creatr HS 3D…
Kitten Pulling a 3D Printed Barbie Chariot… You Know You Want.
Last year our good friend Jim “Zheng3” Rodda broke the internet just a bit with his full suit of 3D printed, medieval, battle armor perfectly sized for Barbie. His first crowdfunding campaign – based off of a design that he…