NASA’s Goddard Center Pursues the Many Space Applications of 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-HouYou may hear about some of the more game changing developments occurring at NASA with regards to 3D printing, such as the SpiderFab project, the 3D-printed pizza, or the NIAC...
View Article3D Print Your Own Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover
By Michael Molitch-HouAutodesk may be helping its partner Makerbot in the advancement of 3D printing in education through the release of a series of new models on the Autodesk 123D site. The CAD /...
View ArticleThe Journey of Laywoo-D3: An Interview with Wood Filament Inventor Kai Parthy
By Michael Molitch-HouFrom that first mysterious video of the wood filament, Laywoo-D3, being printed, I was intrigued by the mysterious person behind the camera, writing the white text against a blue...
View ArticleQuebec Research Consortium Launches AM Project for Aerospace
By Michael Molitch-Hou2014 is seeing the aerospace industry kick its adoption of 3D printing into high gear, first with the project announcements made by America Makes and now with Canada’s Consortium...
View ArticleI Learned How to 3D Print a Drag Queen So You Don’t Have To
By Michael Molitch-HouMy name is Michael Molitch-Hou and this is my story. I tell it only so that you won’t make the same unfortunate mistakes that I have. And so that I can brag about the time that I...
View ArticleThe Other Half of Jolla’s Smartphone is a 3D Printed Smart Cover
By Michael Molitch-HouThough it may be unfamiliar to mainstream smartphone users, Finnish smart phone manufacturer and software developer, Jolla, has been working away to make smartphone technology...
View ArticleMakerBot’s Bre Pettis to Join Local Motors Board of Directors
By Michael Molitch-HouAs the crowd-sourced car company Local Motors pushes to build its first production auto entirely with 3D printing by the end of 2014, they’ve made a smart move and added leading...
View ArticlePelvis Proves 3D Printed Implants Stand Test of Time
By Michael Molitch-HouThough 3D printing is only slowly being adopted as a means of creating custom-tailored implants, the technology has been used for such purposes even before 3D printing was “cool”....
View ArticleThe Degenerate Chair Generated from Plaster, Sugar and Sake
By Michael Molitch-HouThere have been quite a few 3D printed chairs on 3DPI: the Solid C2 chair that was added to the Stedelijk Museum, the ergonomical cellular loop chair, the redesigned Eames chair,...
View Articlemaker6 Comes at Shapeways and 3D Hubs
By Michael Molitch-HouWith all of the new business opportunities presented by the emerging 3D printing market, it’s likely that many competitors will operate within the same space. So, of course a site...
View ArticleNeed to Detect Mercury in Your Water Supply? There’s an App for That
By Michael Molitch-HouYou’ve got to love Aydogan Ozcan. The UCLA professor is coming out with new laboratory equipment that relies on accessible technology every few months now. He and his team have...
View ArticleIs Autodesk’s Charmr App a Charmer for 3D Printing?
By Michael Molitch-HouNot long after Dyo released its customizable 3D printed jewellery collection, CAD leader Autodesk has come up with its own method for creating personalised 3D printed pendants,...
View ArticleNASA Takes 3D Printing to Next Logical Conclusion: 3D Printed Trees
By Michael Molitch-HouIn August of last year, we released a story about how chief scientist of synthetic biology at the NASA Ames Research Center, Lynn Rothschild, and her PhD student, Diana Gentry,...
View ArticleThe ESO’s Very Large Telescope with 3D Printed Components
By Michael Molitch-Hou3D printing is often championed as a method for creating customized one-offs and it doesn’t get much more customized than the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope...
View ArticleNanobots May 3D Print Your New Liver
By Michael Molitch-Hou3D bioprinting has made new headway recently with the publication of a paper titled “Untethered micro-robotic coding of three-dimensional material composition” in Nature...
View Article3D-Printed Dress Designer Goes Cloud Commercial
By Michael Molitch-HouYou’ve no doubt seen images of Dita von Teese’s 3D-printed gown pop up on our site and elsewhere. Now that the image of the burlesque performer in her high-tech garment has...
View ArticleUConn’s New Feminist Engineer Wants to 3D Print Electronics
By Michael Molitch-HouAfter the University of Connecticut’s Pratt & Whitney Additive Manufacturing Innovation Center put out this hip video featuring dubstep and 3D printing, Leila Ladani left her...
View ArticleWindform Material Goes Nautical with a 3D Printed Yacht (Model)
By Michael Molitch-HouWindform is the additive manufacturing (AM) material that made its presence most known with the release of the Italian Electric Superbike Energica from CRP Group. But the...
View Article3D Printing Brings Animatronic Axl to Life
By Michael Molitch-HouA few weeks ago, we posted a video of James Brennan-Craddock’s animatronic bird, so beautifully crafted and realistic that it belongs in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Well,...
View ArticleCelebrating the 30th Anniversary of 3D Printing with Fake Russian Money
By Michael Molitch-HouMaxim Kashirskiy has long been interested in the concept of money, saying (with the help of Google Translate), “I always liked the well-developed prints with a lot of fine lines...
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