Siemens launches its new AI-powered assistant for industrial engineering
Join the Expert Committee for the 2024 3D Printing Industry Awards to help select the winners! Industrial manufacturing firm Siemens has unv…
Optimizing 3D printing performance with Bondtech’s Core Heating Technology
Core Heating Technology (CHT) from Bondtech, the Swedish manufacturer of world-leading filament feeders, increases 3D printing speeds by over 30%. CHT…
Materialise adds novel AM materials to its portfolio
Belgian 3D printing company Materialise has introduced three new materials to its AM portfolio. These materials include Polyamide 12S (PA 12S), Polyamide 11 (PA 11) for Multi Jet Fusion, and Carbon Fi…
Stratasys Joins Adobe for Direct 3D Printing Service
Adobe has slowly been integrating greater and greater direct 3D printing compatibility into its Photoshop software, allowing 3D models to be prepped for printing on local 3D printers or via 3D printin…
Take a Seat on the Robotically 3D Printed Percy Stool
While studying Industrial Design at the Melbourne, Australia-based RMIT University, soon-to-be-graduated student Ryan Pennings invested his time performing research projects that were aimed at combini…
Vulcanus is All Grown Up with the Vulcanus Max RepRap 3D Printer
The beauty of the RepRap community is in the ability of its users to collaborate, share, and enhance the ideas of one another. It’s a community where a 16-year-old can design and build a low-cos…
LeFabShop Invites Kids to Play with Their Food on Kickstarter
Among the many projects that try to convey a common household use for a 3D printer, one that stuck in my mind was the Open Toys created by LeFabShop’s designer Samuel Bernier. Just a couple of days ag…
gCreate: Brooklyn's Large-Format 3D Printer Pioneers
Meet gCreate, a Brooklyn-based 3D printing startup created by Gordon LaPlante and Anna Lee out of their own one-bedroom apartment in 2012. The company was cultivated by the dynamic duo while LaPlante …
Fiat Chrysler Demos its 3D Printing Skills with the Alfa Giulia & More
Today, I had the opportunity to speak at an event sponsored by FCA (Fiat Chrysler Automobiles) at the World Expo in Milan. The event took place in an area called “Eurochocolate” and my job was primari…
Makerarm Seeks to Fab the Future with Kickstarter Campaign
For many, 3D printing is only one of a number of technologies that will be implemented in a digitally fabricated future. To augment the additive possibilities of 3D printing, these companies are work…
Voodoo Manufacturing Spins MakerBot 3D Printers into a Massive Online Service
I know it for a fact: the first instinct you get when you get your first 3D printer is to run around the neighborhood and ask anyone if there is anything at all they need to replace/modify/adapt/custo…
3D Printed Rocket Engine to Send MoonEx Lander to the Moon
As Moon Express makes steady progress towards trying to win the Google Lunar X Prize to land a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, the Silicon Valley firm has just purchased three launches for its lunar l…
Tallest 3D Printed Sculpture in US Installed at MODA
The Museum of Design Atlanta has just opened up its “Designers, Makers, Users: 3D Printing the Future” exhibit, showcasing a huge array of important 3D printing projects. The show covers every type o…
Kentstrapper's Zero 3D Printer: Plug-n-Play 3D Printing Promising Zero Stress
Coming out of Firenze, Italy, 3D printing tech company Kentstrapper has announced the release of their latest plug-and-play desktop 3D printer, the Zero. The Kentstrapper team, who are self-proclaimed…
Biz Eyes' Latest 3D Printed Eyewear Collections Are Outta Sight!
I often find myself repeating that 3D printing technologies are, not made to replicate what exists, but rather to make things that don’t exist yet. Which things? That is for the designers to fig…