Two Hulls Are Better Than One on 3D Printed RC Boat
By Michael Molitch-Hou There’s an old German saying, “If at first you cannot boat, boat and boat again. That is, two hulls are better than one.” The saying, origins unknown, applies almost too...
View Article3D Printing and the Open Engineering Revolution Detailed by GrabCAD CEO
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing wouldn’t have reached its current status without the aid of CAD software, but, more than the ability to design parts for 3D printing, GrabCAD has given designers and...
View Article3D Knitting for Wearable Technology
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printed wearables are shifting from the plastic pieces of questionable comfort worn by runway models to the soft sorts of materials that everyday consumers might actually have...
View ArticleEnvisionTEC Launches Educational 3D Bioprinter
By Michael Molitch-Hou EnvisionTEC, often known for its high resolution digital light processing (DLP) 3D printers, is also in the business of manufacturing machines for 3D bioprinting. And the...
View ArticleStratasys’ RedEye 3D Prints its Largest Parts for Lockheed Martin Satellite
By Michael Molitch-Hou Stratasys’ 3D printing service bureau, RedEye, has proven the feasibility of creating large industrial parts with 3D printing technology by manufacturing one of the world’s...
View ArticleMore Than Meets the Eye: The ZeGo Delta Bot Hybrid 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou The ZeGo deltabot on Indiegogo is less of a 3D printer and more of a transformer. With interchangeable toolheads, the delta-style robot goes from 3D printer to 2D plotter to...
View ArticleAvi & Others to Speak at Digital Fabrication Summit in Baltimore
By Michael Molitch-Hou To inaugurate the new Potomac Digital Fabrication Center at BWTech@UMBC technology park, a number of members of the 3D printing and Maker communities will come together at the...
View ArticleSols’ 3D Printed Insoles Get Running with $6.4 Million Investment
By Michael Molitch-Hou Sols Systems, manufacturer of 3D printed orthotics, is set to be a leading player in the 3D printed footwear market. Co-founded by Kegan Schouwenburg who is also the CEO (and was...
View ArticleLUXeXcel Sheds 3D Printed Light for FSIGN’s oneLED Lamp
By Michael Molitch-Hou There are many 3D-printed lamp shades, bulbs covers, and other decorative lighting solutions being developed by artists, but there is only one company, that I know of, 3D...
View ArticlePrintToPeer’s Indiegogo Campaign to Network All 3D Printers with One OS
By Michael Molitch-Hou Awhile back (August 14, 2013, to be exact) we covered a project by PrintToPeer, a large-scale interlocking sculpture made from 3D printed tokens crowd sourced by 3D printer users...
View ArticleStratasys Creates Dental Advisory Board for 3D Digital Dentistry
By Michael Molitch-Hou As Stratasys extends its reach into the dentistry market, the company has established a dental advisory board to advance the field of digital dentistry. The board is set to...
View Article3DSIM: A 3D Print Preview to Accurately Simulate Metal Additive Manufacturing?
By Michael Molitch-Hou It took me a while to digest Dr. Brent Stucker’s talk at the Inside 3D printing conference in New York, partially due to the highly technical language used in the talk. Then, a...
View ArticleTeen Crime Solvers Use 3D Scanning and 3D Printing in Hi-Tech Lab
By Michael Molitch-Hou CSI has kids (and adults) excited about hi-tech crime solving. I know this from the years I spent giving life skills classes to foster and probation youth. Every class would have...
View ArticleTinkerine’s DittoPro Says Ditto to Sleek 3D Printer Upgrades
By Michael Molitch-Hou RepRap-style 3D printer manufacturers are following a trend that accompanies mainstream interest in desktop 3D printing. As they attempt to garner greater widespread appeal,...
View Article3D Printed Bike Wheels Don’t Pass Rodin’s Structure Test
By Michael Molitch-Hou Rodin Wheels hopes to change the way that mountain biking is done by significantly altering the design of bike wheels. Using a patented technology called 3Drsr (Rapid Structural...
View Article3D Systems’ 3D Metal Printers Popular Among Tyre Manufacturers
By Michael Molitch-Hou Who knew that miraculously 3D printing complex objects out of metal could be so popular? After the acquisition of Phenix Systems, 3D Systems has seen its 3D metal printer series...
View ArticleFDM 3D Printing Inventor Scott Crump Enters Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame
By Michael Molitch-Hou “Let’s get Crumped!” That’s a phrase I’m trying to coin. It means, “Let’s get inducted into the Minnesota Inventors Hall of Fame (MIHF) like Chairman of Stratasys, Scott Crump”...
View Article3D Printing Expands in the Land Down Under with New Retailers
By Michael Molitch-Hou Australia is seeing quick growth in the distribution of desktop 3D printers, as major retailers jump on board the 3D printing bandwagon. Following in the footsteps of other...
View ArticleNervous System Upgrades Kinematics with 3D Printed Gold
By Michael Molitch-Hou Unlike Shapeways’ recent announcement about 3D printed products made golden with lost wax casting, design duo Nervous System has 3D printed the gold itself. The studio, which...
View ArticleCouture Corsets Completed with 3D Printed Fashion Accessories
By Michael Molitch-Hou Move over, Justin LeBlanc[1]! There’s a new 3D printing fashion designer reigning the runway. At this year’s Fashion Art Toronto (FAT), Toronto-based Starkers Corsetry unveiled...
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