3D printing musical instruments is not an entirely new concept for anyone following the progress of the 3D printing industry. The first notable instrument to be 3D printed was reported from MIT, where a team used 3D printing to replicate…
Preview of 3D Printing Event 2012 in The Netherlands
As the 3D printing industry gains momentum in the mainstream media, so does the events calendar for the industry itself. The ecosystem between different industry participants is expanding by the minute and trade shows in various forms are an excellent…
Real-Time Adventures with an Afinia 3D Printer
My name is Christina Chun and I am a recent graduate from the Academy of Art University with an MFA in 3D Modeling. My journey to and through 3D has been a long and interesting path, which started in the…
Shapeways' WoW-Minecraft 3D Printing Contest
What could be better for a gaming aficionado than spending some quality time with two of the most defining (pas)time thieves of this century – World of Warcraft and Minecraft? I have an answer — to combine these two awesome…
Selassi – 3D Printing “Nurtures” Amazing Consumer Products
Selassi is a bright new lighting and homeware brand that showcases unrestrained and beautiful design enabled by the production medium of 3D printing technologies. James Pryor the designer behind the quite exquisite Selassi brand works on the following premise: “Wouldn’t…
Introducing Derek
The 3D Printing Industry Team is delighted to welcome on board a new member to the team and here he is in his own words: Hi there! I’m Derek Quenneville, a 3D printing evangelist and digital fabrication artist from Toronto,…
3D Printable Headphone Design Experiment
John Mabry at Teague Labs has been experimenting with 3D printing and consumer electronics. Named after the print time of the product, the project — 13:30 — is a set of fully functioning 3D printed headphones. For many people —…
Creaform’s Latest Go!SCAN 3D Handheld Scanner
3D technology is in rapid expansion mode these days in its all forms. One such area with tremendous growth potential and appeal to a wider audience is portable 3D scanners, which provide a means of generating 3D digital data that…
3D Printing at the Molecular Scale
One of my personal predictions for 3D printing is that the full power of this technology sector will be unleashed as and when current R&D projects into materials at the nano scale converge with it. It is currently embryonic and…
Digital Natives – 3D Printed Art With a Twist
Matthew Plummer-Fernandez is a renowed experimental artist with a passion for designing and producing objects in creative new ways. One of these innovative roads to imaginative artistry is 3D printing, which Matthew has utilised when developing his new collection —…
