Sometime people are afraid that digital manufacturing will take something away from the arts, allowing anybody to express his or her creativity even if he or she lacks the talent. While that may or may not be a bad thing,…
NEA Spawns Beautiful Family of 3D Printers at CES
Launched at CES this year is one of the most elegant looking series of desktop 3D printers I’ve seen so far, more than eligible for Shane’s Sexiest 3D Printer award. The NEA family of FFF printers – which includes the…
The 3D Printed Tardigrade Earns a Tardigrade-A
Chances are, you’ve seen the 3D printed tardigrade at this point, it became a bit of a minor 3D printing viral sensation, making it onto the editor at Popular Science’s Twitter feed and countless science blogs. Well, its creator was…
Make Sure Your Model 3D Prints with Shapeways 3D Tools
Last year, the big 3D printing bureaus began to evolve their customer-facing 3D printing tools. Shapeways introduced a wall-thickness fixing tool in March to allow users to thicken models too fragile for printing. Sculpteo, too, launched a smart wall thickener,…
Update: Materialise Powers Leapfrog Builder 3D Printing Software
Being one of the most commercially focused, semi-professional and professional 3D printer manufacturers, Netherlands-based Leapfrog has been very active in signing significant partnerships with important international distributors. After closing several deals in the US, Leapfrog is turning to head back…
3D Hubs Adds 10,000th 3D Printer to Network
3D Hubs has made a huge impact on the 3D printing industry, ushering in a new production paradigm made not of centralized corporations with heavy polluting manufacturing plants, but of distributed mini factories owned by individuals. Gradually adding 3D printer…
Robots 3D Scan Stuff Better Than You Ever Could
Poisson-guided auto scanning sounds complicated, but what it really represents is the actualization of an idea that a robot could scan an object more accurately than a human, which is not a novel or amazing notion anymore. 3D Scanning physical…
MakerBot Brand 3D Printing to Spread Across Europe
After the launch of MakerBot Europe, the consumer 3D printer manufacturer has begun its march across Europe. The company has partnered with European Autodesk distributor and Tech Data Europe brand Datech, to bring MakerBot 3D printing and scanning products to countries…
Print Arsenal Launches “First” Chocolate 3D Printer on Indiegogo
Despite the existence of other chocolate printers from other companies, a new startup named Print Arsenal is currently crowdfunding what they are saying is the “first” chocolate 3D printer called, appropriately enough, The Chocolate 3D Printer. The printer can create…
Politics and 3D Printing Make Strange Bedfellows: The Work of Fernando Sosa
Last year, you probably saw a butt plug shaped like Putin rolling around the Internet. The story was published everywhere, not just your ordinary 3D printing sites. From The Huffington Post and Gawker to French, British, and New Zealand TV,…
