Bright Minds of Students Made Brighter with 3D Printing at TCT Show 2014
By Michael Molitch-Hou In what has now become a tradition for the TCT Show + Personalize, TCT Bright Minds UK will be returning to the UK-based 3D printing show. A glass-walled classroom will again be...
View Article3D Printing Heads Up Stream on Steve Ryan’s Yacht
By Michael Molitch-Hou I’m often surprised by the projects that people pursue with their desktop 3D printers. Steve Ryan, for instance, uses his consumer device to design and build yachts. This isn’t...
View Article3DHD Printer Hopes to Combine FFF and DLP 3D Printing, But How?
By Michael Molitch-Hou Unfortunately, Saulo Quevedo’s 3D printer project was unable to successfully launch on Indiegogo after we wrote about it in August last year. That hasn’t caused Saulo to give up,...
View ArticleA 3D Printed Customizables Marketplace and 3D Printer Network Rolled Into One
By Michael Molitch-Hou A new Israeli start-up, involved in 3D printing for the past six months, has launched a 3D printing marketplace that they claim will solve many of the constraints and limitations...
View ArticleRepRap Magazine: For RepRappers By RepRappers
By Michael Molitch-Hou I’m really not supposed to say this, but not everyone gets their 3D printing news from 3D Printing Industry. In fact, my dad gets all of his 3DP news from The Wall Street...
View ArticleNew Book Offers Step-by-Step Projects for 3D Printing with SketchUp
By Michael Molitch-Hou The relatively simple, relatively free, CAD software SketchUp has been around since 2002, but probably didn’t begin achieving its fame until bought by Google in 2006 (although...
View Article3D Printed Tape Measure is a Stunning Tech Demonstrator
By Michael Molitch-Hou I both love and hate tape measurers. They’re so essential for fitting things perfectly into your life (until rendered obsolete by augmented reality) but, when retracted, they...
View ArticlePortuguese BEETHEFIRST 3D Printer Finds First US Re-Seller
By Michael Molitch-Hou Not long after publishing my review of the BEETHEFIRST 3D printer from BEEVERYCREATIVE of Portugal, relaying that the company was seeking to expand its distribution to countries...
View ArticlePirate3D Shifts into Mass Production of Buccaneer 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou Remember the Buccaneer 3D printer from Pirate3D? It launched on Kickstarter and earned over a million dollars, promising an easy-to-use printing experience for $247 (to its early...
View ArticleTest Piloting 3D Printed Prototypes with eCommerce
By Michael Molitch-Hou Gerald Beranek is a product development engineer and, as the owner of Generation Y WorX, has come up with a pretty interesting way of developing his products for sale in the...
View ArticleNew Dutch Desktop 3D Printer to Seek Funding on Kickstarter
By Michael Molitch-Hou Just when you thought the desktop 3D printer market had exhausted itself, a new 3D printer manufacturer has made its presence known. Based out of the Netherlands, like its...
View ArticleKevvox Tree Support Adds a Valuable USP to its DLP 3D Printer Range
By Michael Molitch-Hou Rachel wrote, last year, about two DLP 3D printers from a company in Singapore called Kevvox. The printers seem to be ideal for small industrial purposes, especially when using...
View ArticleArevo Labs want to See Makers 3D Printing with Carbon Fiber and Carbon Nanotubes
By Michael Molitch-Hou A new company has sprung out of Silicon Valley that wants you to print with carbon fiber and carbon nanotubes. No, it’s not MarkForged. The company is called Arevo Labs and...
View ArticleGE Garage Brings 3D Printing FabLab to Washington D.C.
By Michael Molitch-Hou Since 2012, GE has been taking its mobile fablab, the GE Garage, on a US tour, allowing public access to a range of neat Maker tools, like CNC machines, laser cutters and 3D...
View Article3D Printing Turns High Schoolers into Real World Inventors with Quirky
By Michael Molitch-Hou In January, I relayed news about a community college in Sacramento that had used 3D printing to truly embody their role as a community institution by donating a 3D printer to the...
View ArticleWhat’s Going on With Solido?
By Michael Molitch-Hou One of the oft-ignored 3D printing technologies is laminated object manufacturing (LOM), in which layers of material (such as paper, plastic, or metal) are glued together,...
View ArticlePenn State Researchers Create 3D Models from DNA Samples
By Michael Molitch-Hou When I wrote about artist Heather Dewey-Hagborg, who had been taking DNA samples from the street and turning them into 3D printed portraits, I had to tell a friend that the...
View Article3D Pioneer Systems Plans Entire 3D Printing Suite of Tools
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D Pioneer Systems (OTC:DPSM) is a new 3D printer manufacturer that plans to run full speed right out of the gate. They’re already trading on the Pink Sheets, have a 3D printer...
View ArticleSELF Footwear 3D Prints Feet for Bespoke Footwear
By Michael Molitch-Hou There’s a footrace afoot, with numerous competitors entering the 3D printed shoe market. In case you haven’t caught up with them, the benefit of 3D printed shoes might lay in...
View ArticleThe Foodini 3D Food Printer Hits Kickstarter!
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D food printing can be a hard concept to wrap your head around. Questions arise, like: what is it exactly that’s being made into 3D dimensions? Does it cook the food? And, most...
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