Emergency and Custom Keys from Shapeways and KeyMe
I’ve always wanted, like, this big key with Kanye West’s head on it, but never had a way of actually producing such a thing. Just when I was at the end of my rope, literally tying up a noose, Shapeways...
View ArticleNYC’s Latest 3DP Store Opens This Saturday
I just got off the phone with Jerry Castanos, a nice fella from Washington Heights in uptown Manhattan. And Jerry tells me that, with the help of his friends, family and the local community, he’s...
View ArticleThe Cavity Skateboard: Printed In One Single Piece
Let’s say you go to architecture school because you like designing houses, but then, you decide you want to make a skateboard instead. Your square, Midwestern uncle would probably say, “Only in...
View ArticleInternational CES to Feature 3D Printing TechZone and Speaker Track
Looks like those big wigs in charge of the largest electronics event for consumers in the world finally took home just how important 3D printing is. This year will be the first that 3D printing...
View ArticleA Thinking Person’s 3D Printed Gear-Ball
Interestingly, a lot of 3D printing projects begin as Proxy Design Studio’s does, “we wanted to [do something] with 3D printing”, as though the reasons for using the technology are taken for granted....
View ArticleA MakerBot Christmas Story
‘Twas weeks before Christmas, when all through the Marymount Catholic School for girls, the only creature that was stirring was a MakerBot Replicator 2. In preparing for the annual Christmas pageant –...
View ArticleQuin: the Customizable 3D Printable Doll of the Future
Quincy Robinson and Natalie Mathis wanted to solve the problem faced by any consumer looking to purchase a new fashion doll. Because the clothing and accessories from one line don’t carry over to fit...
View ArticleWin an Anvil 3D Printer through Brahma3’s Design-in-Residence Program
Brahma is, according to Wikipedia, “not to be confused with the Supreme Cosmic Spirit in Hindu Vedānta philosophy known as Brahman, which is genderless. In Hindu tradition, the creation of Vedas is...
View ArticleSigma Labs and Michigan Technological University to Co-Develop Low-Cost 3D...
Whoa! That came out of left field. Sigma Labs, known for its PrintRite3D in-process quality control technology for 3D printing, has just announced a potential partnership with Michigan Technological...
View ArticleKai Parthy Gets Felty, Foamy and Porous with PORO-LAY Line of Filaments
Merry Christmas from Kai Parthy! After inventing the concrete-like LAYBRICK and wood-like LAYWOO-D3 filaments, the man has proven himself a whiz with textures and material engineering once again with...
View Article3DPI Writer, Mike Molitch-Hou’s Top 5 3D Printing Applications of 2013
After a year of working with 3D Printing Industry, I’ve learned a great deal about 3D printing, human progress and myself as a writer. The readers have been so thoughtful and appreciative in their...
View Article3D Scanning Preserves Ancient Irish Language
If you could head way back to Kerry County, Ireland in the year 5 AD, you’d find yourself amidst the Ogham alphabet as a series of notches and lines etched pristinely in stone. Travel back to the...
View Article3D Printing Chattanooga Into a Hi-Tech Metropolis
Chattanooga, Tennessee is home to more than just antiquated songs about rail transportation. It’s also home to an emerging tech scene and business incubators, like The Company Lab. The Company Lab,...
View Article3DMonstr Unleashes a Family of T-Rexes on Kickstarter
After speaking with a friend last night that is considering the purchase of a 3D printer for the production of sci-fi costume replicas, I realized that he’d need a pretty big printer if he wanted to...
View ArticleThe BI V2.0 on Kickstarter is a Deltabot Solution to Large-Format 3D Printing
From the harsh, alien terrain of Quebec comes a deltabot 3D printer that could have only been spawned from the frigid winter lands of Canada. The BI V2.0, now on Kickstarter, looks to be a...
View ArticleprintGREEN 3D Printer Grows the Third Dimension
Anyone who thought Chia Pets were nothing more than a novelty didn’t realize that they would set the foundation for what was to come in the 21st Century. Those ceramic pots shaped like heads and were...
View ArticleApple Files Patent for Printing Conductive Inks onto 3D Objects
Well, what do we have here? The day after Christmas, Apple took all of the money it got from grandma and used it to file 28 patents at the US Patent & Trademark Office. And, buried in its patent...
View ArticleHyrel Quad Extruders Print Simultaneously
Hyrel 3D has already broken a lot of ground in desktop manufacturing by developing unique extruder heads capable of printing in a wide range of materials, including clay, play-doh, rubber, and more....
View ArticleDeltaTrix 3D Printer Goes Live on Kickstarter
At the end of last year, we relayed information about Richard Tegelbeckers’s delta-style, open source, 3D printer. Without any experience of building such a thing, Richard constructed a somewhat large...
View ArticleAfinia Puts Up Its Dukes to Defend Against Stratasys Lawsuit
This should make CES a bit awkward next week… After Stratasys stunned the 3D printing community by filing a lawsuit against Afinia, makers of the H-Series FFF 3D printer, at the end of last year, the...
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