Restoring Art, Culture & Peace in Afghanistan with 3D Systems’ Tech
Crawl back through history 1,500 years to the Valley of Bamiyan, central Afghanistan, in the 6th Century. You’d see Buddhist monks laboriously and meticulously etching two large statues of Buddha from...
View ArticlePRINT3R 3D Prints From Your Droid
Just when you thought that only South African teens could create a mobile app for 3D printing from your phone, 3DP retailer Terawatt Industries has launched their own Android app for smartphone...
View ArticleGartner Predicts IP Crime, Super-Organs, and Revolution
In preparation for 2014, Gartner released a report outlining its top predictions for the next six years or so titled “Gartner Top Predictions 2014: Plan for a Disruptive, but Constructive Future”. The...
View ArticleGeoweaver Roaming 3D Printer Walks the Walk and Caulks the Caulk
Although Hollywood would have us believe that college is a place where people go to get drunk and get laid, Jia Wu, Mary Sek and Jeff Maeshiro at the California College of the Arts have proven that...
View ArticleAdapting Your 3D Scanner with a 3D Printable Grip
Since being exposed to the ideas of Adrian Bowyer, the RepRap founder’s description of 3D printers’ symbiotic relationship with humans has stuck with me. And, now, any development in the world of 3D...
View ArticleAustralian Architects Take Home Top Prize in 3D Printing Fashion Contest
Singapore is quickly making a comfortable home for 3D printing with institutions such as Nanyang Technological University approaching the technology at full steam. In conjunction with the opening of...
View ArticleDIY Earbuds that Stick in Your Ears
Do you ever have a problem with your earbuds falling out of your ears while performing rigorous physical labour? Neither do I, but that’s because I have the luxury of muscular atrophy due to prolonged...
View ArticleBMore3D is Baltimore’s Home for the Third Dimension
If you’re like me, you know Baltimore for its gritty cops who over-rely on the M-F-word and smart drug slingers comparing life to a game of chess. But, as I’m sure the city’s residents would like us to...
View ArticleFormLabs Arrives in Vegas for CES with News on Two Fronts
FormLabs is one of the many 3D printer manufacturers that has packed its printers and flown to Sin City this week. And, on the first day of the big event, the stereolithographer has two big bits of...
View ArticleSave This Man’s 3D Chocolate Printing Business!
South Africa’s House4Hack hackspace may be one of the most inventive hubs around, spurring such truly unique projects as the RepRap Morgan and the RoboHand project. Most recently, the H4H-er that’s...
View ArticlePrint Pasta Fazul Right on Your Plate
Just when you thought that you couldn’t 3D print your own any-shape pasta, spaghetti slinger Barilla has announced plans to put a 3D pasta printer in every restaurant over the course of the next...
View ArticleOWL Nano is Stereolithography at .1 Microns
Yesterday is still a bit of a blur, but I can say that I did meet Donnie Liverman from the Virginia-based Old World Laboratories (OWL) and saw the OWL Nano™ in real life at CES. The OWL Nano is the...
View Article3D Printers Now a “Good Thing” Declares Martha Stewart
It’s almost impossible not to respect the tenacity of Martha Stewart. She started as a caterer, made her way up to mogul, went to jail for insider trading, and came out with her name and brand...
View ArticleTrack Your WILLpower with Armour39
In our coverage of CES, I portrayed my wife and I as having a mental breakdown in response to seeing a product called Armour39 developed by Under Armour, an active wear company that’s been using 3D...
View ArticleMBot Puts the Cube in the Past with GRID II
Rachel previously described the uncanny resemblance between the MBot Cube 3D printer and the two large players in the 3D printing field, MakerBot and the 3D Systems Cube. It both sounded like a 3D...
View ArticleBritish RP Firm to Produce Made-to-Measure Insoles for National Health Service
Some 3D printing advocates argue that the technology will revolutionize the marketplace, pushing the ability to customize goods to the level of true personalization. We’ll be able to scan our bodies...
View Article7-Year-Old in Brisbane Requests Dragon from CSIRO, Receives 3D Printed Figurine
Australia’s federal science agency, The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), has taken time off from pursuing cutting edge scientific research to fulfill the dreams of...
View ArticleAfiniac Joey Hudy is a 16-Year-Old Empowered by the Maker Movement and...
Joey Hudy is another example of a kid badass (we’ve covered many on the site) who has become empowered by the Maker revolution currently taking place. He’s been Making with a capital “M” for a while...
View ArticleThe XFAB Expands the Material Portfolio of Stereolithography 3D Printers
At CES, we were treated to a number of desktop stereolithography machines, which seemed unafraid of any 3D Systems lawsuits that might occur. Among them were the OWL Nano, the Pegasus Touch, and, of...
View ArticleTinkerine Studios Will Be Acquired by White Bear Resources
If you go to the website of White Bear Resources, a natural resource company, you’ll be met with a message that reads, “White Bear Resources is currently undergoing maintenance.” That maintenance, it...
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