Virginia Tech Researchers Take to reddit for AMA on 3D Printing Materials

As scientists work towards pushing the range of materials available for 3D printing further outside of plastics and metals, we can anticipate new 3D printing applications blossom at a slow but increasingly predictable manner. A group of scientists, engineers, and researchers at Virginia Tech’s  D...
Virginia Tech Researchers Take to reddit for AMA on 3D Printing Materials

Executive Interview: Massimo Banzi, Co-Founder of Arduino

Massimo Banzi arduino executive interview for 3D Printing Industry Massimo Banzi is the co-founder of Arduino, the Italian manufacturer of the low-cost, open-source Arduino board driving much of the current Maker Revolution. In the following interview with 3DPI’s Davide Sher, Banzi discusses the ...
Executive Interview: Massimo Banzi, Co-Founder of Arduino

Airwolf 3D Finds European Distributor in Hawk 3D Proto

After finding success as a reseller of the Airwolf 3D line of 3D printers, UK 3D printing retailer Hawk 3D Proto has agreed to become the printer manufacturer’s official European distributor. The West Yorkshire-based company is now actively seeking reselling partners in key European countries. T...
Airwolf 3D Finds European Distributor in Hawk 3D Proto

Prynt case turns your phone into a Polaroid-like instant camera

The Prynt instant camera case promises to let you print photographs directly from your Android or Apple smartphone (Photo: Prynt) A new prototype instant camera case promises to let you print photographs directly from your Android or Apple smartphone, and in just 30 seconds. Dubbed Prynt, the...
Prynt case turns your phone into a Polaroid-like instant camera

The PIRX: That’s One Dreamy 3D Printer

While it is somewhat seen as the “Holy Grail” of desktop 3D printing, full color FDM technology is not easy to achieve. There have been attempts and it seems that the grail is almost within reach, although it will take some considerable R&D investments to make it into a reality. While bot...
The PIRX: That’s One Dreamy 3D Printer

New Shapeways RUSH Program Sends 3D Prints to Your Doorstep in 2-3 Days

“We need things faster!” Booms the market, in the face of ontological uncertainty and ecological collapse. “Always faster!” Now that the Internet has supplied a continuous source of instant gratification and Amazon has brought that same feeling into the world of retail and package delivery, other...
New Shapeways RUSH Program Sends 3D Prints to Your Doorstep in 2-3 Days

3D Printer + CNC Machine = Teleportation? Nope!

Teleportation is wonderful sci-fi fantasy.  Perhaps there are civilizations in the outer reaches of our galaxy that have achieved this theoretical possibility.  Maybe there is a form of life (whatever that means) that teleports naturally by some innate genetic property.  It’s fun to let your imag...
3D Printer + CNC Machine = Teleportation? Nope!

Upcycle DVD Drives into a Low-Cost 3D Printer/CNC Machine

Do you have a few old DVD drives taking up space in your home? If so, you’re in luck! Instructables user wootin24 has come up with a design that upcycles those old drives into a 3D printer with just a few dabs of hot glue. Low Cost 3d printer from dvd drive For those who have the required parts, ...
Upcycle DVD Drives into a Low-Cost 3D Printer/CNC Machine

Sharebot Debuts DLP 3D Printer for Jewelry Printing

Italian 3D printing startup Sharebot is shaping up to be quite the 3D printing heavy hitter, releasing an expansive portfolio of 3D printing products in a short span of time.  Just last year, the company added to its desktop FFF 3D printers, a desktop laser sintering system and a DLP printer .  S...
Sharebot Debuts DLP 3D Printer for Jewelry Printing

NVBOTS’ New 3D Printing Curriculum is Common Core Compliant

NVBOTS officially unveiled their new 3D printing curriculum and they’re Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards compliant! Not only that, but they’ve shipped their first 3D printer to non-profit education program Citizen Schools . This is the first reward shipped by the Boston 3D pri...
NVBOTS’ New 3D Printing Curriculum is Common Core Compliant

Magazine Subscription Comes with 3D Printer Kit and the Weekly Instructions to Build It

Would you subscribe to a magazine that included a 3D printer?  What if you had to build it yourself? Eaglemoss publishing and designer Sebastian Conran are excited about a new partnership to educate students and those among us who can’t afford a 3D printer, by providing the opportunity to build o...
Magazine Subscription Comes with 3D Printer Kit and the Weekly Instructions to Build It

Leapfrog 3D Printers Leaps Across Europe with Ricoh Distribution Agreement

Link To Leapfrog 3D Printers Leaps Across Europe with Ricoh Distribution Agreement At CES, Dutch 3D printer manufacturer Leapfrog 3D Printers announced that it was expanding its European distribution, after having already made significant leaps in the United States.  The company is continuing to ...
Leapfrog 3D Printers Leaps Across Europe with Ricoh Distribution Agreement

Ginormous 3D Printed Rolex for the Giant in Your Life

At seven inches wide, you would need really, really big wrists to fool anyone into thinking this 3D printed Rolex is the real deal. But, hey, a fake Rolex is a fake Rolex, right? It doesn’t matter if it’s made of plastic and a quartz clock movement. Thingiverse user Francfalco has designed what h...
Ginormous 3D Printed Rolex for the Giant in Your Life

Most Read Articles from Last Week – January 18

Top 10 3D Printing Updates from CES 2015 3D printing at International CES 2015 was big, reflecting the technology’s transition from a purely industrial and Maker tool to something for consumers, too. The 3D Printing Marketplace doubled its … Thomas Suarez is the prototype of a teenager for the ne...
Most Read Articles from Last Week – January 18

A Hypnotic 3D Printed Zoetrope Inspired by Nature’s Sacred Geometry

Link To A Hypnotic 3D Printed Zoetrope Inspired by Nature’s Sacred Geometry Objectively speaking, there is absolutely no 3D printed art that is better than a 3D printed zoetrope.  This fact was first proven (to me, at least) by Nervous System, which 3D printed some elaborate and hypnotic zo...
A Hypnotic 3D Printed Zoetrope Inspired by Nature’s Sacred Geometry

Designer Cristina Franceschini Looks to 3D Printing for the Future of Italian Shoe Making

Italian shoe craft is known throughout the world and its myth is made up both of high fashion designers and experienced shoe makers, who have passed their craft on for generations. Now, both have to transition into the digital manufacturing era. Some young designers, like Cristina Franceschini...
Designer Cristina Franceschini Looks to 3D Printing for the Future of Italian Shoe Making

3Doodler 2.0 Becomes 1st Hardware Sequel to Pass $1 Million on Kickstarter

The 3Doodler was one of Kickstarter’s most successful crowdfunding campaigns, raising over $1 million in one day when it was launched.  In tandem with CES , the company behind the 3Doodler, WobbleWorks, launched a second Kickstarter to fund the second generation 3Doodler and, it seems, history ha...
3Doodler 2.0 Becomes 1st Hardware Sequel to Pass $1 Million on Kickstarter

MyMiniFactory’s Universe of 3D Models at Robox 3D Printer Users’ Fingertips

In the first partnership of this kind, CEL, the company behind the Robox 3D printer , has integrated MyMiniFactory ’s extensive and curated library of 3D printable models into version 1.01 of its free Automaker software . This means that Robox 3D printer users will be able to access the entire l...
MyMiniFactory’s Universe of 3D Models at Robox 3D Printer Users’ Fingertips

FELIX v3.0 3D Printers Now Bundled with Materialise Builder

Last week, some of the biggest news coming from 3D printer manufacturer Leapfrog 3D was that 3D printing software developer and service provider Materialise would be powering the manufacturer’s 3D printing software. Leapfrog Builder, for the company’s Creatr HS 3D printer, now relies on the Mat...
FELIX v3.0 3D Printers Now Bundled with Materialise Builder

Shapeways to Form its Own 3D Printing Network

Shapeways is an interesting company.  They are actually the first 3D printing company I was ever interested in.  I was living in Queens when they announced that they were opening up a second 3D printing facility about 10 blocks away from where I lived.  I was at the facility on the first day th...
Shapeways to Form its Own 3D Printing Network

Voxel8 paves the way for 3D-printed electronics

The Voxel8 3D printer can blend plastics and electronics in the same printed object The 3D printers of today can produce objects that may be quite intricate in shape but, by and large, these objects are still made solely of “dumb” plastic. This may be about to change thanks to the...
Voxel8 paves the way for 3D-printed electronics

Top 3D Printer Manufacturers

We can easily get lost with the continuously increasing number of 3d printer manufacturers. They all have some exceptional specs to differentiate them from the rest, but do you prefer to be a pioneer or follow the proven route of the companies that dominate the 3d printing market?
Well, these...
Top 3D Printer Manufacturers

Spectrom Takes Full-Color 3D Printing to the Desktop

At CES last week, a start-up started up by a couple of University of Wisconsin students wowed attendees with their fascinating, potentially breakthrough, 3D printing device.  Spectrom is in the process of launching a product that, when set up on an ordinary FFF desktop 3D printer, can cause it ...
Spectrom Takes Full-Color 3D Printing to the Desktop

MakePrintable Makes Models, Well, 3D Printable

Software developer MXD3D has launched an open beta of a new model fixing software service called MakePrintable . They promise that the MakePrintable service will be able to automatically correct and repair most common, and even a few uncommon, problems with making 3D models manifold and ready...
MakePrintable Makes Models, Well, 3D Printable

Teen Takes 3D Printing into “ORBit” with New ORB Technology

Thomas Suarez is the prototype of a teenager for the new century and not just because, at age 15, he was born right across the turn of the millennium. He is a “21st century teen” because his passions are the passions of the new millennium: apps for smartphones, Google Glass, and 3D Printing. He s...
Teen Takes 3D Printing into “ORBit” with New ORB Technology

How much does it cost to build DIY 3d printer at home?

If you’d love to own a 3D printer, but aren’t willing to shell out several thousand dollars for one, building your own DIY 3D printer like the Geeetech DIY Fully 3D printer kit might be an option. By following the instructions carefully you can create a fully functional printer for a...
How much does it cost to build DIY 3d printer at home?

Graphing Calculators Made Affordable by Open-Source Software &3D Printing

These days, pretty much all students are required to have a graphing calculator. Some schools even start requiring them as early as middle school. There are a lot of benefits to utilizing this technology in the classroom, but it comes at a price. Literally, modern graphing calculators can cost...
Graphing Calculators Made Affordable by Open-Source Software &3D Printing

Breaking: Senvol Releases the First, and Only, Free Searchable Database for Industrial 3D Printing Has Arrived!

If you just want to read the headline and start using this groundbreaking tool already, go ahead and click here . One of the biggest questions I hear when talking to various people interested or embedded within the industry is: How do you keep track of all the new information?  There are so many ...
Breaking: Senvol Releases the First, and Only, Free Searchable Database for Industrial 3D Printing Has Arrived!

3D Print Your Own 3D Scanner

Yes, it has come to this. The Atlas 3D is a Raspberry Pi-powered 3D laser scanner kit that you assemble yourself using parts 3D printed by your own desktop 3D printer. The low cost scanner has currently raised over $60,000 in funding on Kickstarter, blowing past its humble $3,000 goal. 3D...
3D Print Your Own 3D Scanner

Fuel3D Handheld 3D Scanner SCA109-The First Of Its Kind

About Fuel3D SCA109 Handheld 3D scanner
Exciting technological marvels have taken place in the field of 3D recently. A lot of advancements especially in 3D printing have taken place. With better more portable and cheaper 3D printers emerging every day, the field has generated genuine interest on...
Fuel3D Handheld 3D Scanner SCA109-The First Of Its Kind

4 3D Printing Products from the Future at CES 2015

As is the case with CES every year, CES 2015 put the future of technology on full display.  While other media sites may focus on new smartphones, cameras, and self-driving cars, this is a 3D printing site.  So, the future we are concerned with here is the future that 3D printing will bring us.  H...
4 3D Printing Products from the Future at CES 2015

Top 10 3D Printing Updates from CES 2015

3D printing at International CES 2015 was big, reflecting the technology’s transition from a purely industrial and Maker tool to something for consumers, too.  The 3D Printing Marketplace doubled its footprint with more than 30  companies sharing their 3D printing, scanning, and modeling wares wi...
Top 10 3D Printing Updates from CES 2015

New York Artist Takes 3D Printing for the Ultimate Motorcycle Ride

Sometime people are afraid that digital manufacturing will take something away from the arts, allowing anybody to express his or her creativity even if he or she lacks the talent. While that may or may not be a bad thing, the truth is that 3D printing can act as just another means of expression....
New York Artist Takes 3D Printing for the Ultimate Motorcycle Ride

Primera outs "world's smallest, lightest all-in-one printer"

Primera Trio sells for US$399.95 and is available for pre-order in selected stores worldwide now (Photo: Erick Mack/Gizmag.com) Unless you add “3D” to the mix, printers aren’t often worth getting very excited about nowadays, but printer manufacturer Primera Technology has...
Primera outs "world's smallest, lightest all-in-one printer"

Focus on 3D Printing In China: HLH Prototypes

What isn’t made in China?  Take a look at this list from International Business Times. Besides owning 20% of US debt held by foreign nations, they produce a massive amount of goods using traditional manufacturing methods.  China is sometimes mistaken as being off the ball or behind the mark when ...
Focus on 3D Printing In China: HLH Prototypes

NEA Spawns Beautiful Family of 3D Printers at CES

Launched at CES this year is one of the most elegant looking series of desktop 3D printers I’ve seen so far, more than eligible for Shane’s Sexiest 3D Printer award .  The NEA family of FFF printers – which includes the NEA PRO Mini, PRO, and PRO+ – boasts a great footprint to print area ratio, a...
NEA Spawns Beautiful Family of 3D Printers at CES

Print Arsenal Launches “First” Chocolate 3D Printer on Indiegogo

Despite the existence of other chocolate printers from other companies, a new startup named Print Arsenal is currently crowdfunding what they are saying is the “first” chocolate 3D printer called, appropriately enough, The Chocolate 3D Printer . The printer can create three dimensional objects fr...
Print Arsenal Launches “First” Chocolate 3D Printer on Indiegogo

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