The Blue Room of the world famous White House is now home to the official White House Christmas Tree as part of the festive décor of the beautiful building. Taking a historical tradition right into the digital age, this year…
Fujitsu-Powered Mobile TechShop Tours Bay Area with 3D Printing in Tow
After companies like GE and Motorola have begun traversing the world with mobile makerspaces, electronics giant Fujitsu has jumped on the bandwagon. The world’s third largest IT services provider has teamed with hackspace chain TechShop, Inc., to create its own…
Airwolf 3D Announces Robohand 3D Print-A-Thon!
If you are a regular reader of 3D printing news, you know that some of the most astounding applications are in the medical field. Prosthetics are a wonderful example of how 3D printing, scanning and modeling software can profoundly change…
Find Your Way Around the Wasteland with a Working Fallout 3 Pip-Boy 3000
Maker, tinkerer and Hack-a-Day writer Will Sweatman isn’t much of a gamer, but when asked if he could cobble together a working Pip-Boy 3000 from the Fallout video game series he decided to give it a shot. Having never heard…
Solving Another of Those Pesky First World Problems with 3D Printing
Anyone whose primary computer is a laptop will understand the struggle of needing to plug and unplug cables every time you have to use it in another room or take it to work. It’s one of life’s little annoyances that…
Hey Beer Nerds, This 3D Printed Bottle Lock Is For You
So let’s say that the artisanal beer that you have in the back of your fridge is brewed by monks in Tibet once every blue moon, bottled by a pygmy tribe in the Caribbean and costs $48 a bottle. It…
Kenya Based 3D Life Print Project Is Offering Mobile 3D Printing of Custom Prosthetics
If there were any lingering doubts as to the potential usefulness of 3D printing technologies, the e-NABLE network and Robohand projects are rapidly erasing them. Self made, open source, custom and affordable prosthetics is probably the single field where the…
3D Printing Doubles Its Footprint At International CES 2015
If you are heading over to Las Vegas for the forthcoming International CES event, be prepared, because it’s going to be mind-blowing. If you didn’t know, for the last 40 years, the International CES has been a gathering place of…
KeyTech Introducing First Certified Food Safe, Stronger PLA
Along with being a sustainable, biocompatible and compostable material, the trait that makes PLA so widely used in 3D printing is its high versatility and that is nothing new. On the downside, PLA is generally brittle and not very impact…
Sharebot “Hands Over” 3D Printers as Open BioMedical Initiative Grows
When people ask me about the short term application of 3D printing, first I tell them about metal and plastic industrial prototyping and manufacturing and, when they say “what about something I could directly benefit from”, the first applications that…