Imagine your life is to illustrate the inner workings of some of the world’s most fascinating machinery for some of the most popular science magazines. Now imagine how much better 3D printing can make…
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A Better 3D Print Pen? The Cloudio2go
3D printing engages us as it constantly surprises us. From bioprinted livers to scanning on one planet to 3D print on another, it’s certainly not just 3D printing journalists asking themselves ‘What s…
Solid Concepts Helped Scanadu 3D Print a Working Tricorder (and Secure $12M in Financing)
You know it, we know it: the 3D printer is the forefather of the replicator, not MakerBot’s Replicator but Star Trek’s replicator, the incredible machine on the Enterprise’s deck that could compress e…
Why-to 3D print:
To best explore the reasons for why anyone does anything, I developed a format called the “why-to”. I assembled a number of why-to guides, devoted to a variety of activities, into a single collection…
Topolabs: God Does Not Build In Straight Lines
The innovative approach to 3D printing that Topolabs is taking is borne of nature. In his youth, inceptor James Page spent his days on a tree farm. His father’s doctorate in forestry and mothers love …
3D Printing’s Potential for Space Apps Is Getting Astronauts’ Imagination Flying
We have said it before, 3D printing and space are a “match made in heaven;” 3D printing is also good at getting people’s imaginations to “go where no one has gone before.” There are so many potential …
The Foodini 3D Food Printer Hits Kickstarter!
3D food printing can be a hard concept to wrap your head around. Questions arise, like: what is it exactly that’s being made into 3D dimensions? Does it cook the food? And, most frequently, what’s the…
3DPI Interview with Dr. Florian Bechmann of Concept Laser
3D printing, specifically industrial machines that process metals, are currently generating excitement in terms of production methods. One of the questions posed as a result, is: Does this signal a de…
Concept Laser is Big On Metals
“By enabling a machine to produce objects of any shape and [increasing] size, on the spot and as needed, 3D printing is ushering in a new era,” said Richard A. D’Aveni in his 2013 article titled “3D p…
Is 3D Printing the Ultimate Industrial Revolution? Find Out in a New Book
The world of 3D printing moves so incredibly fast and its influence is spreading so rapidly that sometimes it just makes your head spin to consider all the possible implications of what many are calli…