High School Senior 3D Prints Finger Splint
There’s been a lot of promise for 3DP to revolutionize the field of medicine. We’ve even seen a lot of progress in that direction with 3D printed liver cells and prostheses. But, for small hospitals in...
View Article3D Printing on the Colbert Report
It’s the weekend! So why not kick back and see how the US’s best satirist handles the technology you know and love? Here are a few clips from The Colbert Report with none other than Stephen Colbert. In...
View ArticleWhat does a 3D-printed guitar sound like?
This week, 3DPI put out a story on 3D printed guitars. They look cool, but how do they sound? Judge for yourself!…The post What does a 3D-printed guitar sound like? appeared first on 3D Printing Industry.
View ArticleWill MakerBot Sell Out?
I don’t know. That’s the correct answer if you don’t have any hard facts. But! That hasn’t stopped me from speculating. See, MakerBot, the 3D printing start-up first to achieve success and fame, is...
View Article3D Print with Play-Doh or Clay for a Day
There’s a supremely cool new extruder with accompanying materials just released by the folks at Hyrel 3D. They’ve done what Play-Doh wished it would have thought of years ago by making a 3D printer...
View ArticleKickstarter: Xbox 360 in Open Source Laptop Form
Started by family man, entrepreneur and computer engineer with a degree from UT Austin, Amir Husain; and all-around hacker and self-described rock star and soon-to-be ineligible bachelor, Azam Shahani,...
View ArticleIndiegogo Campaign: TrindoCase Innovates Smartphone Protection
When I first heard about home 3D printing a few years ago, one of the oft-mentioned things 3D printers could potentially make for consumers was a new iPhone case. Since then, there have been countless...
View ArticleBL 3Dimension Launches 3D EduLab, the All-in-One Education Package
BL 3Dimension Corporation, a retailer of Mcor paper-based 3D printers, Artec 3D scanners and 3D Connexion 3D computer mouse devices, is now in the business of making 3D printing more accessible to...
View ArticleGeek Dad Geek-Mad About 3D Systems Cube
Over at GeekDad, the Wired spin-off blog devoted to fathers with nerdy inclinations, one dad has written about his experience with the desktop printer from 3D Systems, the Cube. In it, the...
View ArticleBone Buildings and Cars? New Fracture-Resistant Bone-Like Material Developed...
In a project funded by the U.S. Army, researchers at MIT have 3D printed a new material that they say is fracture-resistant and resembles human bone. The goal, one might think, would be to develop...
View ArticleKong in Chains Turns Realistic 3D Models into Realistic 3D Prints
Every once in a while, we’re given a project that takes us in a different direction to that which we first anticipated. That’s what happened here to Mike, but his open nature and equally open mind have...
View ArticleCreate it REAL Stops 3DP Guns from Becoming Real
A Danish company claims to have addressed the concern over 3D-printed guns, not by improving the skills of law enforcement, but by improving the skills of computer software. In a press release, the...
View Article3D Systems Joins Planetary Resources to Mine Asteroids in Space
Industry leader 3D Systems has opened up a new investment wing to its operation, 3D Systems Ventures, and the division’s first order of business is mining asteroids for space minerals. On June 26, 3D...
View ArticleTV Show Mash-Up: 3D Printed TARDIS Transformer
Happy 4th of July, readers! For those of you who are unfamiliar, July 4th is the day on which Americans celebrate their independence from the Queen by drunkenly shooting explosives into the air within...
View ArticleMaryland’s Towson University Object Lab Prepares Art Students for the Real World
Towson University’s Center for the Arts gives its students a valuable skill not always found at the college level: experience. Through the school’s Object Lab, individuals pursuing a Bachelor of Fine...
View ArticleCL3VER Gets Clever with Interactive 3D Models
With 3D models taking up huge amounts of memory, it’s difficult for designers to display the true depth of their products over the Internet without the clunky and cumbersome method of .zip files and...
View Article3D-Printed Barbie Represents Reality More than Mass Produced Barbie
We kind of already know that Barbie is awful. We’ve known it for some time now. The doll is introduced in high school health classes as the number one example of poor media representations that feed...
View ArticleMixeeLabs Launches Line of Custom Cufflinks Creator
MixeeLabs, as we wrote about not too long ago, is a site where users can sell customizable designs. Using tweakable templates, customers can modify the characteristics of a given item that is then...
View ArticleBaby Steps Towards Project P-600: 3D Printing with Miracle Material Graphene
In my eyes, if there’s a technology out there that fulfills Buckminster Fuller’s principle of “doing more with less”, its 3D printing. And if there’s a material out there that also fulfills that...
View ArticleLeopoly: Cloud Crowd 3D Design
Any newcomer to the 3D modelling marketplace has to offer something unique to its audience and peeking its head out of the crowd is Leopoly. Leopoly is a cloud-based modelling software platform that...
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