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3D FilaPrint Customer Guide Makes Filament Settings Manageable
The thing about desktop fused filament fabrication (FFF) 3D printers is that the filament flowing through them can be so variable. That’s the thing about them! Well, not the only thing, but it’s so da…
Innovative IP Business Model using 3D Printing, Creative Commons & Open Source
The example of the ‘liberated’ Fused Deposition Modelling patent owned by Stratasys, which Professor Adrian Boywer reiterated as open source in the RepRap Project is the foundation of most…
UK Represented By Ion Core and the Zinter PRO 3D Printer In The Third Industrial Olympiad
In the 18th century a small collection of some 6000 islands in the northern proximity of the Atlantic ocean was the unlikely location of possibly human history’s most important first technologic…
Époisses, Chardonnay and a Spiderbot Delta 3D Printer, S'il Vous Plaît
I’m in the market for a 3D printer. However, like all journalists (and a certain John Snow), I don’t really know much about anything. So, my selection process involved following advice from my mechan…
UConn’s New Feminist Engineer Wants to 3D Print Electronics
After the University of Connecticut’s Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center put out this hip video featuring dubstep and 3D printing, Leila Ladani left her post at the Universit…
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…
Alphaform AG (AFRMF): German Engineering AND Exceptional Value in a 3D Printing Stock
With the 3D printing industry projected to have a CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate) between 25–30% for the next 5–7 years, well-known 3D printer manufacturers such as 3D Systems (DDD), Stratasys (SSY…
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 …
UNI Students Train for the Future using one of North America's Largest 3D Printers
Last September, UNI’s Metal Casting Center took possession of one of the largest 3D printers in the US, ExOne’s S-Max. The printer is large enough to produce objects up to almost six feet long (70” in…