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Rinkak Provides Toyota with Mass 3D Printing for i-Road Project

July 6, 2015, 10:04 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Japanese 3D printing marketplace Rinkak has quickly been growing in stature, as it launches a variety of innovative products and services.  The latest news should firmly establish the company behind Rinkak, Kabuku Inc., as a major player in the industry.  Today, Kabuku announced that it would be providing the 3D printed, mass customized parts for Toyota’s i-Road Personal Mobility Vehicle.

Previously covered on 3DPI, the i-Road is a cloud-connected, one-person vehicle for inner city driving currently in a pilot phase taking place over the course of the next year in Tokyo. …

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MakerBot Now Sold in All Sam’s Club Stores Across USA

July 6, 2015, 11:37 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Last year, MakerBot entered into a partial distribution agreement with WalMart-owned big box store Sam’s Club, which saw the MakerBot Mini 3D printer sold in a select number of shops across the US.  The pilot program seems to have been deemed successful as WalMart has agreed to sell the printer in all 600+ Sam’s Club locations in the country.

Mark Schulze, CRO of MakerBot, said of the new deal, “Sam’s Club is a great retailer for MakerBot products. Its customers include professionals, small business owners, entrepreneurs, educators, and others who have a natural interest in desktop 3D printing.…

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3D Systems Hits San Diego Comic-Con with Pop Up 3D Printing Shop

July 7, 2015, 7:17 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

3D Systems is bringing its suite of 3D printing, scanning, and haptic devices to San Diego Comic-Con this year, giving attendees the opportunity to purchase their own 3D printed figurines.  As the event kicks off from July 8 to July 12, Comic-Con patrons will be able to purchase licensed collectibles from Star Wars, GI Joe, and Marvel.  On top of that,  they’ll also get to test and purchase Cube 3D printers, iSense 3D scanners, and Touch haptic devices.

Chief Marketing Officer for 3DS, Cathy Lewis, says of the event, “We couldn’t ask for a better venue than Comic-Con to show the public how 3D printing is involved in everything from filmmaking to toy production.…

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Local Motors Unveils Next 3D Printed Car Design & Plans for Autonomous Vehicles

July 7, 2015, 9:29 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Though Local Motors has been in the business of selling crowd sourced vehicles for eight years, the firm’s large-scale car printing has made it a truly 21st century car company.  And, this year, Local Motors is shifting gears from pure prototyping and marketing of their Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) platform to the actual manufacturing of cars.  The company has plans to open two new car printing facilities in 2015, where they will be able to DDM custom cars for customers. To kick off this new car printing era, however, Local Motors required an all-new crowdsourced design with which to start from, leading them to launch Project Redacted. …

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MyMiniFactory Lends 3D Printing Help to BBC’s micro:bit Computer for Kids

July 7, 2015, 10:37 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

The BBC has recently been working to get UK students more engaged with science and engineering, launching a new series of programming with a tech focus and, today, a small computer to teach kids how to code.  Even simpler than a Raspberry Pi computer or Arduino microcontroller, the BBC micro:bit will be given away to every 11 or 12 year old child in year 7 or equivalent across the UK, with up to 1 million micro:bits donated in total.  Partnering with the BBC are 29 different organizations, including the UK’s own MyMiniFactory.…

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FAST Project Launched to 3D Print Large-Scale Aircraft Structures

July 7, 2015, 12:54 pm
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Despite the bursting of the recent 3D printing hype bubble, the industry is still going strong and, as Gartner’s Hype Cycle indicates, we’re currently shifting into true development mode, where the technology will improve to meet, and likely succeed, the level of hype promoted by media outlets and the like.  So, though we didn’t see any 3D printed aircraft last year, we did see significant progress towards the 3D printing of aircraft parts when GE opened up a facility in Alabama to mass manufacturer its 3D printed jet engine nozzles. …

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Ryu Kicks into Comic-Con with 3D Printed Street Fighter V Cover

July 9, 2015, 8:41 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Last year, a hopeful start-up emerged on the 3D printing scene, boasting former employees from Google and 3D Systems as a part of their team.  Source3 had been quiet since November 2014, so we had yet to see exactly how its founders, which had previously launched the successful RightsFlow music licensing platform, which was ultimately acquired by Google, would be bringing their experience to 3D printing.  Today, at Comic-Con, the company made its first big move, releasing a product that I’m sure many video game fans will be excited about: a 3D printed version of the cover art for Capcom’s Steet Fighter V, to be released in March, 2016.…

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Designer’s Dream Cyborg 3D Printed into Reality

July 9, 2015, 10:23 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

California-based Vitaly Bulgarov has typically lent his amazing 3D modeling and design skills to such big name companies as Blizzard Entertainment, Oakley, LucasFilm’s Industrial Light & Magic, and Intuitive Surgical.  Or he provides his expertise to INTEL, where he currently works on concepts for the next generation of wearable tech.  But, in his spare time, Bulgarov works on his own “Black Phoenix Project”, concept based on the idea of a fictional robotics corporation from the not too distant future.  And, recently, he had the opportunity to bring those designs to life with the help of new 3D printing studio Factor 31.…

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Disney Startup Accelerator Grabs Two 3D Printing Firms for 2015

July 9, 2015, 12:43 pm
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

As we’ve seen from the Disney Research group, the company that birthed Mickey Mouse and long lines for overpriced popcorn is really into 3D printing.  The group has put out a lot of exciting work on new ways to 3D print objects, including the elusive process of fabric 3D printing.  It should come as no surprise then that the second Disney Accelerator should feature two 3D printing startups.

From now until the program’s Demo Day on October, 6, 2015, ten firms will work to develop their businesses with help from a three-month mentorship and investment program. …

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Free 3D Printable of the Week: Pres. Barack Obama

July 10, 2015, 11:38 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

At the end of last year, the Smithsonian Institute added 45th President of the United States, Barack Obama, to its digital collection. The institute, however, has yet to make the bust available to the public, leading one person to even launch a Change.org campaign to see the files publicly available.  Until that happens, Sketchfab’s talented Louis Bidou has found a convenient work around the Smithsonian’s secret stash.

See, when the President’s bust was scanned and printed, the Smithsonian put out the above fun, and widely shared, video of Pres.…

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Cults Recruits 3D Hubs for 3D Print Button Integration

July 10, 2015, 12:04 pm
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

3D Hubs has wiggled its way into a number of 3D printing related platforms ever since this year kicked off, with their Teleport API implemented in Sketchfab, Instructables, Thingiverse, 3DPrinterOS, and more.  The release of Teleport to the public opened up the 3D Hubs 3D print button to even more sites and, today, the largest network of distributed 3D printers has been added to French 3D printing marketplace Cults.

Cults says of the 3D Hubs integration, “Cults is happy to announce this new partnership with 3D Hubs.…

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LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of July 11

July 11, 2015, 8:00 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Another week, another round of LinkBits: your source for brief bits of news from the 3D printing industry. The industry is booming and so are we, so here is a list of stories that we couldn’t quite fit into our complete article schedule for the week. Bon Appéprint!
PRINTinZ Releases Flexible Zebra Plate

PRINTinZ has released the latest version of its flexible build plate, which uses a special material coating to ensure that prints adhere to the print bed and, then, can be easily removed.…

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Noguera’s Nuke is a 3D Printed Electric Ukelele Even I Can Make

July 13, 2015, 11:22 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Before going on to create the look for one of the most groundbreaking desktop 3D printers to be released this year, the Voxel8 electronics printer, Juan Carlos Noguera first designed the Nuke, a 3D printable, electric ukelele. As the culmination of his studies at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Nuke is an exercise in streamlined design specifically for desktop manufacturing, a functional object that can be made by even the most inexperienced Makers with access to relatively small printers.…

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Court Docs Allege Stratasys Misled Investors Despite Smart Extruder Issues

July 13, 2015, 12:00 pm
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

At the beginning of this year, the law firm Robbins, Geller, and Rubin had filed a suit against Stratasys claiming that the company had “made materially false and misleading statements…[to] artificially inflate the price of Stratasys stock.”  As the case continues, the law firm has filed a whopping 125-page document that lays out their entire case, including, among other things, the claim that Stratasys sold their MakerBot 5th Generation Replicators with full knowledge that the 3D printer’s Smart Extruders were faulty.…

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joimax Receives FDA Approval for 3D Printed Spinal Implants

July 13, 2015, 1:23 pm
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

3D printing has already begun to disrupt the medical space, with low-cost prosthetics acting as a clear example of just how personal and affordable medical devices can be.  And, as stories are reported daily as to the ability to create patient-tailored implants with 3D printing, the FDA is continuing to approve these devices for implant.  The latest is a spinal implant from a German company called joimax, which just received 510(k) clearance from the US governmental body.

The Endoscopic Lumbar Interbody Fusion, or EndoLIF® On-Cage implant, is a titanium alloy implant manufactured with Electron Beam Melt (EBM) technology. …

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3D Printing Mutual Fund Adds Robotics to Investment Portfolio

July 14, 2015, 4:14 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

While Meckler Media’s Inside 3D Printing event series have been successful since their inception nearly two years ago, the man behind Meckler Media, Alan Meckler, had also seen the need for a mutual fund devoted to 3D printing technologies, leading him to launch the 3D Printing and Technology Fund (TDPIX, TDPNX) with his son, John Meckler.  And, just as Inside 3D Printing grew incorporate robotics into its shows, already seeing one iteration in South Korea and looking forward to another in Tokyo this October, so too has the mutual fund added robotics to the mix, as, today, the fund has announced the change of its name to the 3D Printing, Robotics and Technology Fund.…

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Authentise Launches 3DIAX Suite of Sweet 3D Printing Tools

July 14, 2015, 8:38 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Authentise, based at the NASA Research Park campus in Mountain View, CA, has steadily been growing since it was founded at Singularity University in 2012, expanding its technologies, partnerships, and services. So, while as originally meant to provide the secure streaming of 3D printable files, it is now much more than that, taking on partners like Lowes and researching computer vision for 3D printing quality control. Today, the company has become even more with the launch of 3DIAX, a a platform for storing, modifying, and 3D printing files.…

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3D Printed GyroPalm Seeks to Control Your Electronic World

July 14, 2015, 9:54 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Launching on Kickstarter tomorrow, the GyroPalm is a wearable that probably should have existed by now. Or, rather, it takes those devices that do exist, like the Apple Watch, and makes them open source, as the GyroPalm is an open source wearable meant to allow the user to control everything in your Internet of Things, including smartphones and robotics, with the flick of a wrist.

Built with an array of electronics, including infrared and inertial measurement sensors, the GyroPalm has a low-latency reach of 3,000 feet using encrypted protocol 2.4GHz. …

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3D Systems Releases Its Own Soluble Filament for Complex, Moving 3D Prints

July 14, 2015, 11:08 am
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

Other 3D printer manufacturers have been promoting the use of water soluble filament for their machines for some time, but, because 3D Systems’ Cube 3 and CubePro rely on filament cartridge systems, the use of such filament, for printing support structures to create more complex prints, is not as easy as inserting a third-party material and printing.  Fortunately for Cube owners, 3D Systems has just released their Infinity Rinse-Away water-soluble support material.

The Infinity Rinse-Away material, available at $49 for the Cube and $99 for the CubePro, is meant to dissolve quickly and cleanly with nothing other than ordinary water.…

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Drone Maker ElecFreaks Launches Portable Freaks3D 3D Printer

July 14, 2015, 12:17 pm
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By Michael Molitch-Hou

It may not be the “world’s first portable 3D printer”, as the Indiegogo campaign claims, but Freaks3D’s portable 3D printer is a well-marketed one with a reasonable price. Developed by ElecFreaks, the startup behind the 3D printable ELF drone, the Freaks3D printer is definitely worth checking out.

The first feature one might notice about the Freaks3D printer, aside from its portability, is how that portability is achieved, with a cute, interchangeable 3D printed handle. From a practical standpoint, this is pretty useless, but it will definitely capture the attention someone wanting to craft their identity with their personal fabricator.…

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