The Heavy Metal 3D printed aluminium guitar: This guitar was designed to explore what metal additive manufacturing (3D printing) is capable of, and to better understand the intricacies …
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New 3D Printing Process Rides on Ultrasonic Waves
Although 3D printing technology has, in one way or another, found a way to conquer the production of many material goods, 3D printing industrial-quality composite materials is not the easiest process.…
Formnext Day 1: Quiet After the Metal Storm
It feels a little strange to write that about visiting a manufacturing show in Frankfurt in late Autumn and that show not being Euromold. Both organizations, Frankfurt Messe and Demat decided to part …
Organovo Licenses Mini Kidneys for Bioprinting
Though Organovo produced 3D printed kidney cells earlier this year, last week, Professor Melissa Little‘s research team at the University of Queensland (UQ)’s Institute for Molecular Biosc…
The Top 15 Bioprinters
Here we are again with our Top 10 lists of 3D printers. This time we ventured into the exceedingly complex world of 3D bioprinting. Most commercially available 3D bioprinters are based on some proprie…
Autodesk Aims to Replicate Speed & Precision of Gizmo 3D's Ultra-Fast 3D Printing
Carbon3D created quite a stir when they announced their super fast CLIP technology that grows parts instead of building them layer by layer. The announcement spawned a race to match the top-down, high…
Manufacturing Imaginaries: Neo-Nazis, Men’s Rights Activists and 3D Printing
Consider this: something that drives desires and fears around new technologies is often not what people actually are doing with technology, but what they might do with technology in the future. It is …
REAL Interview: Katherine Crawford on UNYQ's 3D Printed Prosthetics
At REAL 2015 last week, I had the pleasure of sitting down with Katherine Crawford who joined UNYQ founder Ethyor Bender on stage to talk about her experience with UNYQ’s 3D printed prosthetic c…
Can Open Source Really Work in Scientific Research?
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about a study by Michigan Technological University’s Professor Joshua Pearce in which he calculated some hard numbers about the potential savings of adopting open …
Publicly Traded 3D Printing Companies: an Overview (Part 1)
Editor’s Note: As a gift to our readers past, present, and future, 3DPI writer Shane Taylor has broken down a list of 3D printing stocks that may be of interest to potential investors or just those lo…