While I was at the AeroDef conference last week, I spoke with Dr. Ron Ott, Deputy Director of Energy & Transportation Science at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), who told me that Oak Ridge ha…
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President Obama Announces Two New Advanced Manufacturing Hubs
This is the year, apparently, that the United States government will fully embrace 3D printing. The America Makes Institute has already been established and, now, we’ve heard that the White Hous…
3D Printing Gradually Folds Into Mainstream Manufacturing at AeroDef
There’s a strange thing that happens for a member of the press at an event like AeroDef, a convention for members of the aerospace and defense supply chain. They really don’t care about talking to a r…
Additive & Subtractive Metal Manufacturing Unified: America Makes Awards Go To Optomec
America Makes has recently announced two new awards to Optomec. The aim is to speed the adoption of one of my own personal favourite additive technologies: the LENS metal additive manufacturing proces…
Youngstown State University Opens 3D Printing Center as US Manufacturing Hubs Take Root
New news comes out of Youngstown, Ohio this week. The city is home to the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, now America Makes, and is making strides in establishing the town as a …
Additive Disruption Summit Features Long List of Big Name Companies Talking 3D Printing
Infocast, the same folks who brought you the Additive/Aerospace Summit, have introduced a new cross-industry 3D printing related event, the Additive Disruption Summit. To take place in San Francisco f…
America Makes Awards Second Round of Projects
The National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, America Makes, has announced its second round of funding for companies and organizations keen on pushing the technology forward in the US. Pr…
MakerBot and the James Webb Telescope
Have you ever heard of the James Webb Telescope? It will be NASA’s biggest science mission to date and the largest telescope ever launched. The telescope features NIRCam, a camera optimized for…
3D Printing Contributes to Development of New JWST Space Telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope has provided mankind with some of its most inspiring images. Be it the birth of stars, the beauty of supernovae or the fascinating sites of the large impacts of the Shoemake…
GE Aviation in Joint Technology Development Agreement with Sigma Labs Inc. (SGLB)
I love researching, investing in, and writing about 3D printing stocks that are undiscovered compared with companies like Stratasys Ltd., 3D Systems Inc., and The ExOne Corporation. The reason for thi…