Back when I reviewed the Structure Sensor for the iPad, I was overjoyed with the ease and quality of the itSeez3D 3D scanning app designed for the Structure. The app made it possible to capture full-color 3D scans that I…
World's Largest Metal Cutting Manufacturer Opens 3D Printing R&D Center
Sweden’s Sandvik AB (SAND) has been around since 1862, growing to encompass 47,000 employees across 130 countries as the world’s biggest producer of metal-cutting tools. The company continues to keep pace with new technology and, to ensure that it can capture…
Say Namaste to MANAV, the First 3D Printed Robot From India
At IIT in Mumbai, India, the country’s first 3D printed plastic robot MANAV, was featured on the third day of the country’s annual Tech Fest 2015. MANAV, which means “human” or “man” in Hindi, is a creation of New Delhi’s…
3D Print Your Own 3D Scanner
Yes, it has come to this. The Atlas 3D is a Raspberry Pi-powered 3D laser scanner kit that you assemble yourself using parts 3D printed by your own desktop 3D printer. The low cost scanner has currently raised over $60,000…
7-Year-Old Trooper Joins the Star Wars Saga with 3D Printed Arm
In the Star Wars saga, Clone Troopers were created to defend the Republic, before becoming Stormtroopers to serve the Empire. If, in the upcoming trilogy by Disney and JJ Abrams, they are once again to fight for the good side…
Hack & 3D Print Olympus' Open Platform Camera
The Google Project Ara modular smartphone may be the culmination of a process that will enable future generations to modify the hardware components of their electronic devices, much like current generations are modifying their own software. This will be a…
Custom Ear Wearables in Under an Hour with New Mobile 3D Scanner
Atlanta, Georgia tech company United Sciences showed off some impressive new 3D scanning technology at CES 2015. The handheld 3D scanning device is the first mobile scanner that can accurately capture the entire inner ear, making any wearables completely customized…
Breaking: Senvol Releases the First, and Only, Free Searchable Database for Industrial 3D Printing!
If you just want to read the headline and start using this groundbreaking tool already, go ahead and click here. One of the biggest questions I hear when talking to various people interested or embedded within the industry is: How…
DeltaWASP 3D Printer Review: the Ducati of Delta 3D Printers
Any 3D printer is a manufacturing robot, but no 3D printer, no matter what the technology involved, looks more like bot than those made using delta architecture. The first delta 3D printer I have had the opportunity to test and…
Textiles and 3D Printing Stitched Together by the Knitic Project
Clothing is one of the categories that people – especially those who are not industry insiders – are most interested in as a 3D printing application. Albeit, it is also one of the categories where 3D printing is not currently…
