Materialise’s recent IPO brought in around $125 million for the Belgian company to invest in its future. During my trip through some of the top 3D printing companies in Northern Europe I just had to stop by and see for…
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3D Print Your Way Into Professional Video Making with New Adafruit Project
Canon changed everything when its EOS range of semiprofessional DSLR’s began to shoot videos as well as photos. Then came the higher quality of standard smartphones and the result is that now, to shoot high quality videos, you probably already…
Rat Rig Becomes the First Aluminium V-Slot Manufacturer in Europe
Are you located in Europe and trying to build your own 3D printer, but importing V-Slot from the US is proving to be an expensive hassle? Well good news, new hardware manufacturer Rat Rig has just become the first European…
Q3D has Sold 1000 3D printing units. Will Colour Frames Help Sell 1000 More?
One thousand units in less than two years of operations may not be mass market numbers but when you add up all the small companies selling around these numbers of their 3D printing systems it appears that desktop 3D printing…
Two 3D Printed Meals Served on Either Side of the World
Walt Disney once said, “Tomorrow can be a wonderful age” and sought to demonstrate his dream of a utopian future with Tomorrowland, the futurist-themed portion of his theme parks. It’s easy to picture, in his utopian vision, a device that…
Last Week’s Rally Shows that the 3D Printing Stocks’ Rollercoaster Is Just Beginning
Since I started following the 3D printing industry full time my life has changed completely — and I love it — but that is not the point. I remember the night when I discovered 3D printing’s potential and realized that…
3DPI Editorial Round-Up: June 2014
Another month has come and gone and we are exactly half way through 2014. Where has that time gone? Blink again and it will be Christmas! At 3DPI it’s been another busy one. We continue to grow the team and…
Augmenting Stone Age Tools using 3D Printing
Designers Ami Drach and Dov Ganchrow created several stone age flint stone axes, scanned and then 3D printed a variety of handles for them. The project is called Man Made, and yes, it is completely unnecessary. But I’m pretty sure…
A Busy News Week for Mcor Reflects Phenomenal Annual Growth
Mcor, the Ireland-based manufacturer of affordable, full-colour and eco-friendly 3D printers that produce models using paper, is strutting its stuff at the RAPID 2014 event this week in Detroit. News bulletins coming from the company on the show floor are…
3DSIM: A 3D Print Preview to Accurately Simulate Metal Additive Manufacturing?
It took me a while to digest Dr. Brent Stucker’s talk at the Inside 3D printing conference in New York, partially due to the highly technical language used in the talk. Then, a bunch of personal stuff got in the…
