3D Printing with Liquid Metal Heralds a New Era of Electronics, Metals and...
3D printing with metal had been conceived of since the early 1970s and, in practice, has mostly been achieved using laser sintering (LS) although these days most people seem to be calling it laser...
View ArticleSupplyBetter Gets Better: Releases 3DP Supplier Profiles
Being a global news site, 3DPI works across many different time zones, and it can sometimes be difficult to get the logistics spot on, particularly when working with a company with information under...
View Article3D Systems Partners with Innovation Factory to Make Chicago the Design...
Chicago is near and dear to my heart because it’s where I grew up and it’s where my parents live. So any news coming out of that fair city, with its delicious deep dish and crystalline skyline, is near...
View ArticleFabneo Launches as a High-End 3D Printing Boutique, Home to Top 3D Designers
On Saturday, July 13, Fabneo launched as a high-end boutique for 3D-printed items. With a heavy emphasis on design, the online marketplace currently sells 3D printed jewellery, lighting, fashion and...
View Article3D Systems Releases VisiJet M3 Black, A New Injection Molding-Like Plastic
In a bid to make its ProJet printers even more useful for end-product manufacturing, 3D Systems has developed a new, “plastic injection molding-like material” dubbed VisiJet M3 Black. According to the...
View ArticleFirst 3D Printing Experiences: Cube vs. Makerbot
At the end of June, I relayed the frustrated experiences of one 3D printing novice from Geek Dad who, in spite of the miracle of 3D printing an object on demand, didn’t see the technology really...
View Article3D Printing Gives Electric “Superbike” Energica More Power
I’ve always thought that, in order to make consumers adopt more ecologically sustainable purchasing practices, all that corporations would need to do is effectively market sustainable products. They...
View ArticleThe Great Fredini’s Scan-A-Rama 3D Portrait Booth
Who said that magic is dead? I didn’t say that. Did you say that? Well, it’s not. The Great Fredini, the self-described “world’s worst magician”, has found a trick that actually works, only he doesn’t...
View ArticleMAKEwithMOTO Makes Makers into Ads for Motorola
In an attempt to profit off of the emerging Maker movement, Motorola has developed the MAKEwithMOTO ad campaign, leading to an outcome with a double-edged sword. The MAKEwithMOTO campaign has a...
View Article3D Print Your Unborn Baby’s Face
3D Print Your Unborn Baby’s Face. Sounds like a quaint collection of essays by David Sedaris, doesn’t it? Actually, it’s a real thing and not just a work of non-fiction. In an attempt to make...
View ArticleIndiegogo: i-AM 3D Metal Ink Printer
The above picture is a rendering of what the i-AM 3D Printer would look like if it could make it into the world. The “i-AM” in i-AM 3D stands for ink additive manufacturing and it represents a...
View ArticleUltrafine Particles and the Potential Risks of Printing without Ventilation
Before anyone tells you that 3D printing will kill you and says, “First the guns! And now this?!”, remember: everything is dangerous. It’s true. Even if you point a kitten at someone in the wrong way,...
View ArticleA Peek into GE’s Additive Manufacturing Lab with Prabhjot Singh and Joris Peels
Joris Peels at VoxelFab recently conducted an interview with the manager of the GE Additive Manufacturing Lab at GE Global Research, Prabhjot Singh. The interview, complete with Joris-style analysis,...
View ArticleBiocompatible 3D Printing Firm Wins Contract from Northrop Grumman
Thanks to a partnership made possible by the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute (NAMII), the flagship institute for the Obama administration’s National Network for Manufacturing...
View Article3D Systems Engineer’s Giant RepRap 3D Printer
Many folks are dubious about the utility of desktop 3D printing, especially in regards to size. I mean, how many useful objects can you really print on your desktop? Jim Smith’s answer to that question...
View ArticleMake it Stand: 3D Printed Objects That Don’t Tip Over
With 3D printing, you can print objects with almost any interior geometry you can imagine. Typically, this has been taken advantage of to reduce waste through the printing of semi-hollow rather than...
View ArticleNASA Awards Project for 3D Bioprinting Anything You Want
Don’t hold your breath yet, but NASA is funding a project that may make it possible to someday 3D bioprint anything that you ever wanted, needed, or never knew you wanted or needed. As part of Phase I...
View ArticleKickstarter: Volumental’s Free Cloud Scanning Service Adds Printing
Volumental has been around since 2012, when it first got people excited about its free, cloud-based scanning app. Now, the Swedish computer engineers behind the scanning app are going the full mile...
View ArticleSuspended Depositions: Hair Gel 3D Printing with an Undo Function
There’s something about 3D printing with metal and plastic that just feels so absolute, so finite, so… done. Nothing that reflects the true impermanence of existence. 3D printing with a big vat of hair...
View ArticleUPS Stores to Feature In-Store 3D Printing Services
Working at a lenticular promotional company, where we made 3D images for advertising purposes, I’d occasionally get a call from someone who wanted to 3D print some prototype for their potential...
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