Sigma Labs Files Patent for 3D Printing Quality Control Sensor System
By Michael Molitch-Hou Sigma Labs, developers of the in-process quality control system PrintRite3D, has been hoping to establish itself as a necessary part of integrating 3D printing into mainstream...
View ArticleA Copy of the Open Source, 3D Printed Robot Pops Up in the UK
By Michael Molitch-Hou Does this fella look familiar? That’s because it’s Gaël Langevin’s open source, 3D printed InMoov robot. Only, it’s not Gaël’s. It’s a copy, made by a group of researchers at the...
View ArticleT-Bone Makes Your 3D Printer Meatier
By Michael Molitch-Hou On Indiegogo right now, there’s a microboard seeking funding that will, if all goes well, help Makers handle their motion control projects — 3D printing, milling, laser cutting,...
View ArticleCity X Project Challenges Students with 3D Printing and Alien Planets
By Michael Molitch-Hou “Humans have just landed on an alien planet and they’ve staked out an area for their first city, City X. They need inventions that solve challenges relating to health, safety,...
View ArticleCroft Additive Manufacturing to Feature Bespoke Filters at MACH 2014
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing’s unique ability to produce complex parts is central to the work of Croft Filters, which, in November of last year, created a spin-off firm called Croft Additive...
View ArticleMetal-Plastic Voxel 3D Printing Pursued by Arizona State University
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing technology is so close, yet so far, from being ideal, especially for large OEMs. At the moment, a lot of the problems with industrial 3D printing are (still) related...
View Article3D Printing Prints from the Moon
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing has now been established as a great way for paying tribute to famous historical moments, as artists have begun 3D printing memorabilia ranging from a coin featuring...
View ArticleHeadline from 2016: 3D Printer Hack Puts Tattoo Artists Out of Work
By Michael Molitch-Hou Dude, did you see that new Justice video where they turn a 3D printer into a computerized tattoo gun? Oh, that wasn’t Justice? Anyway, did you see it? Those French guys totally...
View ArticleKiwi is Painstakingly 3D Printing His Own Aston Martin
By Michael Molitch-Hou Luxury cars are, by their definition and design, available to own only by the very rich. 3D printing, on the other hand, has been said to be a democratizing technology, a means...
View ArticleCould 3D Printing Save the Livelihood of a Penguin in Poland?
By Michael Molitch-Hou While we’ve seen the beaks of majestic, soaring birds restored with 3D printing, this may be the first goofy, flightless bird to find a new lease on life with the technology....
View ArticleStartups Fight to the Death at Inside 3D Printing New York
By Michael Molitch-Hou Okay, so they didn’t really fight to the death, but, at Inside 3D Printing in NYC, startups did take place in a competition of sorts. We had just finished up a panel discussion...
View ArticleJournalist Treats Wife to Completely 3D Printed Meal
By Michael Molitch-Hou New York is known for its delicious cuisine. While we were there for the Inside 3D Printing event, Danielle and I had the opportunity to eat flavourful Indian, rich Italian and...
View ArticleMeet Jimmy, Intel’s Open Source, 3D Printable Robot
By Michael Molitch-Hou By far the best speaker of Inside 3D Printing New York, for me at least, was Brian David Johnson, a futurist at Intel. As Johnson described it, his job at Intel is to, not just...
View ArticleSLM Solutions Plans German IPO
By Michael Molitch-Hou Gary Anderson was right! At the Inside 3D Printing NYC event, Gary spoke on a panel about investment opportunities in the 3D printing industry, in which he relayed rumors of SLM...
View Article3D Printing Factory-In-A-Store Goes Live in Pittsburgh
By Michael Molitch-Hou A 3D printing vending machine has made its debut in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Well, it’s not exactly a 3D printing vending machine, but it’s the closest thing to one that exists...
View ArticleNew Desktop DLP 3D Printer Coming to Kickstarter
By Michael Molitch-Hou We received an enigmatic email that read “Just figured I’d pass this info along about a new printer that’s about to start its crowdfunding campaign”, followed by a link and...
View ArticleDragonbite 3D Printed Stylus Aids Pens in Digital Design
By Michael Molitch-Hou When I first read the email from Dinos Costanti about the work that he and his partner, Vangelis Hadjiloizou, were doing with their studio Lab02, I confused them for the...
View Article3D Systems’ Sense 3D Scanner Adds Mac OS Compatibility
By Michael Molitch-Hou To be honest, when I wrote about the Sense handheld scanner from 3D Systems last year, I was a little disappointed that it could only be used with PCs. Though the 3D scanner was...
View ArticleFuel 3D Returns to Medical Imaging with $1.1 Million Contract
By Michael Molitch-Hou You may know Fuel 3D Technologies Ltd. for its low-cost, high resolution handheld 3D scanner that blew up on Kickstarter last year. What you may not have known is that Fuel 3D...
View ArticleXYZprinting Plans to Add 3D Scanning to daVinci 3D Printers
By Michael Molitch-Hou I’ll admit that I’m not the best at getting new release info out of 3D printer manufacturers. Usually, that’s because I’m tactless and say, “Hey, you got a new printer comin’...
View Article