Tu Propio MiniMe Cortesía del First 3D Printer Store in Mexico
Finally, a chance to brush up on my Spanish! *Blows on fingernails arrogantly and wipes them off on collar for some reason* Ideaz 3D is the first 3D printing shop, that I’m aware of, in Mexico....
View ArticleGerman RepRap Launches Plug-N-Play NEO at Euromold
Outside of the releases from large manufacturers at Euromold last week were the smaller companies showing off their latest goods. Along with all of the other German RepRap products, like its open...
View ArticleLeap Motion’s Gesture-Based 3D Modeling App
The Leap Motion Controller was just out of the price range for my family’s secret Santa this year, but if we could have kicked the limit up to $79.99, I would have totally asked for one because the...
View ArticleThe RappiDelta Jr. on Kickstarter is Affordable and a Snap to Build
After not quite meeting his goal for his RappiDelta project on Kickstarter, David Ackers returned to the crowdfunding site with a new project: the RappiDelta Jr. The Sr. was a deltabot, in many ways...
View Article3D Systems Shows Off Multi-Material, Full-Color RC Truck at Euromold
The Director of Product Management at 3D Systems, Derek Johnson, knew that the company needed to demonstrate what its new, multi-material ProJet 5500X 3D printer could do at Euromold when it launched....
View ArticleHatch Jewelry Launches 3D Printing Design Challenge
Hatch Jewelry is a boutique jewelry website (could be called a “jewelry publisher”?) that curates designs for sale in their online shop. What sets them apart from other boutique retailers is that the...
View ArticleA New First — A Real Time Processor for 3D Printers
Create it REAL, to me, is a fascinating company. We previously covered the company’s software that prohibits a given 3D printer from printing a gun design. What I discovered in looking into them...
View ArticleItalian Firm Relies on Stratasys for End-Use Production
Stratasys’ largest Italian 3D printing service bureau, Società Progettazione Ingegnerizzazione SRL (Spring SRL), purchased its second Stratasys Fortus 900mc at Euromold this year through the Italian...
View ArticleUndetectable Firearms Act Passed, Free of 3DP Regulation
On December 9th, the Undetectable Firearms Act was extended before its built-in expiration was to take place. The law, which we’ve written about once or twice on 3DPI, was established in the 1980s as a...
View ArticleParacosm is “Transforming Reality Into 3D Models”
Before writing this article, I looked up what the word “paracosm” meant. It’s an awesome word that I wish I had known about earlier, basically representing any fictional universe with its own...
View ArticleNeoMek RP Firm Opens Office In Pennsylvania
The growth of any additive manufacturing company can attest to the traction gained by the 3D printing industry overall. So success for rapid prototyping firm NeoMek Incorporate may indicate the success...
View ArticleIsrael’s First 3D Printing Retailer Opens This Saturday
The only appropriate song to play when a new 3D printing store opens up anywhere on the planet, I believe, is Sugar Ray’s “Fly”, with the line “All around the world statues crumble for me.” Maybe I’m...
View ArticleVisual Effects Artist to 3D Print Artist — Marco Valenzuela
Some of the 3D printing artists we see today have arrived at where they are from some pretty windy roots. Though, in 1991, artist Marco Valenzuela’s great uncle, David, showed him some early...
View ArticleCadigo: It’s Liek for 3D printing or whatevs :P
Among the various services, retailers and communities springing up in response to the rise in 3D printing are the sites devoted to 3D printables. Because many of these model repositories are free, I...
View ArticleArcam AB Acquires Materials Division of Raymor
Perhaps as a means of directly controlling its metal powders supplier, 3D metal printer manufacturer Arcam AB (AMAVF, in the US, or ARCM.ST on the Nasdaq OMX) has signed an agreement to acquire the...
View ArticleNatureWorks Partners with 3Dom for PLA Filament Production
NatureWorks, a US-based company known for its Ingeo biodegradeable PLA, has just entered into a partnership with Ireland’s newly formed 3Dom Filaments Limited. 3Dom will be exclusively manufacturing...
View ArticleInnofil3D Fills the Materials Marketplace
As Shane relayed last week, “the 3D printing plastic materials market was worth $70.5 million in 2012. That market is expected to reach $209.6 million by 2018”, according to the “Markets and Markets...
View ArticleThe 3D BioPen Rewrites Orthopedic Surgery
We may have received some flak for calling the 3Doodler (and others) FFF pens a “3D printing” pen — with some labelling the device as a “glorified glue gun” — but the BioPen from the University of...
View Article3D Systems Acquires Portion of Xerox R&D Division
After a decade and a half of producing 3D Systems’ line of ProJet 3D printers, Xerox Corporation will be selling a portion of its Wilsonville, Oregon R&D division to the industry leader for $32.5...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Injection Moulding Supplier Opens 3DP Division
ARC Group Worldwide (NASDAQ: ARCW), a global manufacturing provider focused on precision components, flanges, fittings and wireless technology has recently formed a new division focused entirely on 3D...
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