Dutch 3D Designer Michiel Cornelissen has become a mainstay of the 3D printed art and design community, with work at the MoMAs in New York and Japan, the Tate Modern in London, and Centre Pompidou in Paris. Some more notable…
Refund Delay for Buccaneer 3D Printer May Signal Sinking Pirate Ship
It’s a tragic day for pirates, as the world’s first pirate-themed 3D printer company sinks below the seas of the market. After Pirate3D launched a wildly “successful” Kickstarter, earning over a million dollars for their low-cost, consumer friendly Buccaneer 3D…
Heading to Costco? Pick Up a 3D Printer from ROBO 3D
Everyone’s favorite warehouse club, Costco, will be selling desktop 3D printers starting September 19th. The machine that the US’s second and the world’s seventh largest retailer has decided to introduce to their 3 million customers is the ROBO1 3D printer…
3D Printed Earthquake Data Visualisation
There have been many areas of application for prosumer 3D printing that just wouldn’t have occurred to me, with fascinating stories of just how broad the utility of desktop 3D printing can be. The visualisation of non-visual data is one…
A 3D Printed Dire Wolf Skull Pendant Could be Yours
If you thought the Dire Wolf was an invention of Game of Thrones then you may be shocked to find out that it was in fact a real species of wolf that died out about 10,000 years ago. It is…
Autodesk Sparks Interest in the Strati 3D Printed Car
Two of the bigger — and ongoing — 3D printing stories this year have come from Autodesk (when it announced plans to introduce Spark, a new open platform for 3D printing) and Local Motors (who just this weekend 3D printed…
Oculus VR CEO Gifts $31M to bring State-Of-The-Art Maker Space to UMD
Oculus VR CEO Brendan Iribe has gifted $31M to his alma mater, the University of Maryland (UMD), to help fund the construction of the Brendan Iribe Center for Computer Science and Innovation. This facility will include state of the art…
Lean Start-Up Energy 3D Wants to Energize the 3D Scanner Market
If a desktop 3D printer is the ancestor of Star Trek’s replicator, then, the way I see it, is that a 3D scanner is the ancestor of the transporter, the machine that allows people to be transported as a stream…
Florence Opening its Doors to 3D Printed Creativity at Source Exhibition
Ever since the Medici ruled with enlightenment and a passion for the arts during the Reinassance, Florence has been a hub for culture, creativity, arts and crafts. With the onset of the 3D printing revolution as a means of personal…
3D Printing Plays Big Role in New Stop Motion Film from the Makers of Coraline and Paranorman
The creators of Coraline and Paranorman are back with their new 3D stop motion and CGI animated hybrid film The Boxtrolls. Many of the character faces and sets were 3D printed, and the creators have released four 3D models of…
