Our households are filled with everyday things – inexpensive items, which often also tend to be of poor quality reflecting their low price tags. Thus, they are easily broken and contribute further to …
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Research: 3D Printing and UK Consumer Market
Aysu Bozkurt is an industrial engineer who studied MSc in Global Marketing in London School of Business and Finance. While researching a topic for her dissertation she discovered 3D printing and becam…
Tinkering With Technology – 3D Printing Initiative For Primary Schools
3DPI has reported on numerous stories featuring the educational sector, and this trend is encouraging. The latest news with a focus on education comes out of Loughborough University in the UK. The uni…
Printcraft: CAD is Child’s Play & 3D Printing Makes it Real
Paul Harter, the creator of Printcraft, shares his passion for 3D design and 3D printing as well as his opinions about engaging children with these technologies. Printcraft started as a project with m…
3D Printing Contributing to Underwater Conservation
Artificial reefs are essential for conservation work in many parts of the world. Construction-scale 3D printers have been used — experimentally — by an Australian-Bahraini team to create artificial re…
3D Printing – Back and Forth on PIY
I will confess, the 3D Printshow was not just a work-day for me! I am one of the lucky people in that I love my job and 3D printing fascinates me professionally AND personally. Until recently though,…
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…
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…
3D Design & 3D Printing Both Feature in The Popular Mechanics Top Ten Tech Breakthrough Awards 2012
The highly recognised Popular Mechanics Breakthrough Awards were announced recently and have once again been bestowed on those the judging panel deemed to be the greatest innovations of this year. It …
7 Finalists Compete for $100,000 in 3D Printing’s First Charity Challenge
Seven finalists have been shortlisted for the global 3D4D Challenge – techfortrade’s first charity 3D printing challenge – to promote and celebrate innovation in aid of developing countries by using 3…