For a company not even two years old, Fuel3D, the developer of the affordable handheld 3D scanner, is going from strength to strength. Today the company has announced that it has closed a funding round totalling £4 million ($6.4 million).…
3D Printing is Fit for a King (or a Sultan)
The rise of 3D printing technologies will make cost-effective customization tools available to most people — eventually. However, customisation tends to come at a price, and even more so in the early days of a new technology that makes it…
Graphine Announcing Its Granite Tool Is Available for 3D Industry Professionals
As late as last October 23rd, Aljosha Demeulemeester, Graphine Software co-founder and CEO, gave a presentation at Brussels iMind conference to show how 3D scanning in real time rendering and new virtual reality devices such as Oculus Rift will advance…
Quasicrystalline Enhancements To Complex Metal Alloys For AM
The breadth of materials for additive manufacturing (AM) continues to be a nascent primary preventative obstacle for the permutations of application of the processes. That breadth continues to grow year on year, with increases in applicable material properties among that…
Quadruped Run Cycle Shows How Student is experimenting (& Sharing) with 3D Printing
As a model making technician within the Design Development Centre at Huddersfield University, UK, Fin Crowther was excited to have the opportunity to embrace 3D printing as part of his education. Fin first came across 3D printing for animation in…
Osiris Biomed 3D Pitches Patient-Specific Medical Implants 3D Printed in Real-Time
This Thursday, at The Hub in Philadelphia, US veterans will have an opportunity to fund their entrepreneurial dreams as a part of the Greater Philadelphia Veterans Network’s (GPVN) 2nd Annual Veteran Entrepreneur “Shark Tank” Business Pitch Event. One company pitching…
Alex's 3D Printed Bionic Arm E-Nables Volunteers to Form Limbitless Solutions
“The choice in many cases is not the choice between a plastic hand and a $40,000 prosthetic…it’s a choice between nothing and a prosthetic and this is a lot better than nothing.” Jon Schull, of the Rochester Institute of Technology,…
Doctor Who Turns Failed 3D Prints into Monsters
A recent episode of the British science fiction TV series had the Doctor, and his companion Clara, battle monsters inspired by the surreal and often disturbing results of failed or interrupted 3D prints. In one of the creepier moments of…
Johnny Appleseed 2.0: the Incredible 3D Printing Gumball Gallery
Finally! Gumball machines are relevant again! Or they can be, if Josh Ajima, the teacher behind the Design Make Teach blog, can get his hands on some 3D printed art for his Incredible 3D Printing Gumball Gallery. As a modern…
CEO Nikki Kaufman Talks About the Normal Store’s Personalized Manufacturing Future
When you walk into the Normal Store in downtown Manhattan and admire in awe its futuristic retail space, with 10 Fortus 250 3D printers inside the walls, and look through the windows on its finishing factory, you cannot help but…
