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 —…
Tinkercad Excitedly Launches Shape Scripts API
Tinkercad, the company working hard to bring accessible 3D data creation to the masses, has just announced “some weekend fun” in that it is now possible to write Shape Scripts directly inside the Tinkercad editor and create shapes that are…
High Street 3D Printing Services: An Interview with Robert Feld, The Color Company
3D Printing Industry has recently reported on the growth of 3D printing services in the retail sector. One of the first organizations to recognize this potential was The Color Company, a pioneer in this area with retail space across the…
i.Materialise Adds Stainless Steel To Its Material Range
One of the most typical questions people unfamiliar with the 3D printing industry tend to ask is about the availability and offering of different materials that can be utilised today. This issue is, in fact, a very interesting starting point…
A Day at the Engineering Design Show
On Wednesday I was a visitor at the Engineering Design Show at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry. This was an inaugural two-day show organised by Findlay Media, publishers of Eureka magazine. Unsurprisingly the event was targeted at Design Engineers and…
3D Printing: Bring on the Trough of Disillusionment — Please!!
Last week 3D Printing Industry published a post from Graham Tromans that focused on some serious concerns that Graham has about safety issues, specifically in terms on users of entry-level machines and materials qualification. These are such valid points that…
Palaeontology and 3D Printing
US scientists and a Danish entrepreneur have been working on reconstructing sea life from ancient times, and we’re not talking recent history but 390 million years ago. Using a combination of computer animation, CT scanning and 3D printing technology, the…
A 3D “Alphabet of Alphabets”
Some time ago Johnson Banks started a research project called Arkitypo with one of their clients, Ravensbourne. The aim was to develop and showcase the 26 letters of the alphabet in 3D, using 3D printing technology. For those who haven’t come…
Spoiled for Choice: A Gallery Of 3D Printed iPhone Cases
There is no doubting that 3D printing has come a long way from its industrial roots and manifested itself as a serious tool for producing a wide range of consumer objects. To celebrate this paradigm shift , here at 3D…
