Nokia Pimps 3D Printing for Easter Marketing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Located at a chop-shop in Finland, the once largest manufacturer of cell phones slowly hocks its remaining technology divisions to the largest software developer. Perhaps in the...
View Article3D Print Expo Makes its Way from Russia to Kazakhstan
By Michael Molitch-Hou In February, Russia held its first 3D printing expo, titled the 3D Print Expo. After the success of the event, the 3D Print Expo organizers are taking the show on the road to...
View ArticlePrintoo Printed Electronics Make 3D Printed Projects Stay Afloat
By Michael Molitch-Hou Arduino-style microcontrollers have, in part, galvanized the Maker movement. With low-cost boards, it’s become easy for anyone with less than $100 and computer access to start...
View Article3D Printed Robot Gets Mad, Confused, Sleepy and Parties!
By Michael Molitch-Hou Queen’s University’s School of Computing in Ontario, Canada seems like one of the funnest places to earn a degree. Every year, students put on an expo titled Creative Computing:...
View ArticleWhy-to 3D print:
By Michael Molitch-Hou To best explore the reasons for why anyone does anything, I developed a format called the “why-to”. I assembled a number of why-to guides, devoted to a variety of activities,...
View ArticleFirst Reports on Local Motors’ 3D Printed Car
By Michael Molitch-Hou Local Motors and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have begun trials on their 3D printed car today and, while not entirely successful, they’ve produced some interesting results. The...
View Article3D Printed Lithophanes Light Up Milan Design Week
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing has become a technology that pairs perfectly with lighting decor. Through tricks of geometry, texture and colour, artists have been able to 3D print lamps and light...
View ArticleMakerJuice Tries to Undercut FormLabs with 3D Printing Resins
By Michael Molitch-Hou There are indications that 2014 will see a similar explosion of light-based (direct light processing and stereolithography) 3D printers that 2012 and 2013 saw with FDM/FFF...
View ArticleShapeways Has the Midas Touch, Adds 14k Gold to 3D Printed Products
By Michael Molitch-Hou You used to think that Shapeways was classless, only offering customers the ability to order 3D printed products made of Silver, Brass, Bronze, and Steel, in addition to an...
View ArticleProto Labs Acquires Fine Line Prototyping
By Michael Molitch-Hou Here’s a sign that our stock writer and founder of 3DPrintingStocks.com, Gary Anderson, knows what he’s talking about. He’s been including Proto Labs in his analyses of the...
View ArticleForget Princeton, Go to Solidoodle U!
By Michael Molitch-Hou I’m sorry. That title’s very misleading, but so is Solidoodle U as it is not so much an accredited four-year university, but a pair of discounted 3D printer packages for...
View ArticleZooM 3D Printed Lampshade Sheds Light on Unique Design
By Michael Molitch-Hou Look at all of this crazy stuff that 3D printing has allowed designers to pull off! I mean, just peruse 3DPI for all of the unique and ingenious designs made possible by the...
View ArticleHow to Make 3D House Printing Accessible?
By Michael Molitch-Hou Eric Hunting has had it with the way that people are going about 3D printing buildings. He doesn’t seem pissed or anything, just a little perplexed. And, in a recent Open...
View ArticleFree Your 3D Printer from Slicers and Print with Project Silkworm
By Michael Molitch-Hou Skip your Gcode slicer completely and print directly from Rhino3D. Why? Because you’ll be freed from the constraints of quadratic code to experience the organic nature of...
View ArticleFrench 3D Printer Manufacturer Groupe Gorgé Acquires its Own Materials Firm
By Michael Molitch-Hou Groupe Gorgé has begun building up its portfolio in the effort to transform itself into a 3D printing powerhouse. After the acquisition of Prodways, French manufacturer of a...
View ArticleAuthentise Makes 3D Print Streaming More Secure with Guardtime Partnership
By Michael Molitch-Hou In anticipation of the possible need for Intellectual Property protection in the 3D printing era, Authentise has partnered with Guardtime, the inventor of Keyless Signature...
View ArticleTeddy Ruxbin 2.0: Disney’s 3D Printed Soft Electronics
By Michael Molitch-Hou Disney Research has come up with a novel 3D printing method that could usher in a new era of scary animatronic bears that come alive in the middle of the night at the edge of...
View Article3D Printed e-Hookah Adapter Could Help More than 100 Million Daily Smokers
By Michael Molitch-Hou Leading North American heart surgeon Dr. Gopal Bhatnagar has realized that e-cigarettes are one method of transforming a deadly habit into an almost harmless one. The Canadian...
View ArticleRobocop is 3D Printed for the 21st Century
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing can be used, on the one hand, to produce medical prostheses perfectly tailored to the body of an individual – a unique, potentially life-changing one-off. On the...
View ArticleToshiba 3D Prints Kawasaki City as a Smart Community
By Michael Molitch-Hou Imagine this: Power plants spewing out clouds of smoke to produce steam, which drives turbines to send electricity along an aging set of power lines to cities off in the...
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