Dutch fasion designer Iris van Herpen has established herself as the pioneer of 3D printed fashion, creating a dress that Time magazine declared as one of the 50 Best Inventions of 2011. Working with Materialise and Stratasys, her futuristic designs…
Is this actually the World’s First Raspberry Pi Powered 3D Printer?
Instead using the standard firmware included with most 3D printers and replacing the PC interface with a Raspberry Pi, like most “Raspberry Pi Powered 3D Printers”, Owen Jeffreys, a Level 3 engineering student, claims to have created the “World’s First…
Freaky Bez Gets Freaky 3D Printed Bust for Manchester Science Festival
Every year for the past eight years Manchester, England hosts its Manchester Science Festival to proudly pay tribute to the scientific arts, bringing a number of scientists and researchers together to expose the public to exciting new endeavors and technologies. …
Researchers Develop Liquid Phase Metal 3D Printing Process using Low Melting Point Metallic Inks
Researchers at the Beijing Key Laboratory of CryoBiomedical Engineering have developed a metal 3D printing process that uses low melting point metal alloy Inks. The inks liquefy just above room temperature and will quickly solidify once they are printed –…
3D Printing Front and Centre at FabLabHubs DigiFab 2014
The interactive DigiFab Con 2014 is returning to Baltimore in November where they will examine the areas that 3D printing and digital fabrication have influenced and driven advances in education, manufacturing, job training and the creation and founding of start-ups.…
3DprinTogo and a Whole Lot More: Here’s What WoeLab Has Been Up to Since W.Afate
When The Togo based makerspace WoeLab Presented the W.Afate project to build a 3D printer using E-Waste from some of the largest dumps of old computer and electronic equipment it sent ripples through the entire 3D printing and global community.…
Leading Canadian University Launches 3D Printing Faculty
Home to over a hundred courses and almost forty-thousand students, Ryerson University is the most applied-to university in Ontario, Canada. Now, the popular educational establishment has founded one of the most advanced 3D printing research facilities in Canada. In partnership…
MeccatroniCore Introduces Professional Desktop 3D printer
The newer 3D desktop FFF 3D printers, from the Replicator 5th Gen all the way to the Cube Pro and Sharebot’s Q have integrated full color, sometimes even touch, displays. MeccatroniCore, an Italian company built around its Michelangelo desktop CNC…
3D Printed Hats Attract Attention At Fashion Show
3D printed high fashion has continued to develop as an emerging trend over the past few years, as regular 3DPI readers will know from our fashion section. This year’s New York Couture Fashion Week saw a range of seven hats…
The Modular MM1 3D Printer Hits Kickstarter at Full Steam
About two weeks ago, Shane wrote up a post on a new desktop 3D printer with some exciting features called the MM1. Developed by Makermex of Mexico, the MM1 is a modular 3D printer so that a number of features…
