Manufacturing Data Silo Problem Gets a New Approach from Aibuild
London-based software firm Aibuild has launched Aibuild OS, an AI-driven system that automates workflows across the full engineering stack, from initi…
Snapmaker U1 Launches on April 10, Now Pre-Order at $849
Shenzhen-based 3D printer provider Snapmaker has announced a release date for the U1, its upcoming desktop 3D printer. The machine goes on sale April…
Toray develops spherical Toraypearl PA12 powder for PBF 3D printing
Toray Industries, Inc., a Japanese advanced materials manufacturer, has developed Toraypearl polyamide (PA) 12, a spherical PA12 powder designed for compatibility with powder bed fusion (PBF) 3D print…
Architecture Students at Pratt Touch Tip of Iceberg with 3D Printed Resort
Two undergraduates at the Pratt Institute of Architecture used Acropora and Rhino to design an artificial iceberg acting as a resort and 3D printed the model with a MakerBot Replicator Desktop 3D Prin…
MakeVR Goes Live on Kickstarter
There’s been a lot of MakeVR in my life lately. After reading up on and finally getting exposed to MakeVR’s virtual reality 3D modelling system, the software (and accompanying hardware) has finally l…
102 Creations is the South Bay’s First Filament Supplier
I was in the middle of writing Rachel an email when I saw an ad on the sidebar of my Gmail page. I think I had noticed that there were ads there, but had become so accustomed to them that my brain com…
Can Organs Be 3D Bioprinted? A Stem Cell Trachea Will Tell
In four limbed creatures such as human beings, the trachea is the windpipe that lets the air we breath flow into the lungs: just like life, it is fragile. Without it we could not breath, nor speak, no…
What Might the US DoD Want with 3D Printing?
After first looking at the America Makes institute back when it was called the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, I began wondering what the Department of Defense (DoD) and the defe…
Makers of the World Unite at MakerDays — with 3D Printing
I apologize but the temptation to use Karl Marx’s famous slogan to describe the new MakerDays initiative was just too strong to resist. In fact the comparison is fitting: the aim of MakerDays is to br…
Materialise Sets Up to Tap Polish 3D Printing Market with Acquisition of e-Prototypy
Materialise has just announced its acquisition of e-Prototypy, Poland’s leading provider of rapid prototypes and 3D printing services, in apears to be a strategic geographic extension of the Belgian 3…
3DPI.TV – 3D Printing and Space Travel a Match Made in Heaven?
From rocket prototypes to moon and mars bases, from future planetary rovers to made in space and gravity-less 3D printers, everything that has to do with future space colonization also has to do with …
BEETHEFIRST Desktop 3D Printer Drops Prices
BEETHEFIRST, the desktop 3D printer out of Portugal, has seen a drop in price! According to the manufacturer, BEEVERYCREATIVE, the reduction in price comes from an increase in production, which has al…
How to Tell What’s Real and What’s Fake in a 3D Printed World
Counterfeiting is expected to be a $1.7 trillion threat to world economies by 2015. 325% more counterfeit goods were confiscated from 2002 to 2012 than in the previous decade. NASA says counterfeiting…
Unboxing to Printing — the Da Vinci 1.0 3D Printer
Shane introduced 3DPI readers to the da Vinci 1.0 3D printer from XYZPrinting at the end of last year. He found plenty to be positive about then, most notably the price of USD499. Oliver Fueckert was …
Is 3D Printing and Space Travel a Match Made in… Heaven?
We are living in exciting and revolutionary times. Technologies that have been developed during the past decades are becoming mature and opening up to more and more people. This time, however, we are …
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