Walmart CEO Hints Company’s Interest in 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Walmart is known for a lot of things: being the largest retailer, public corporation, and private employer in the world, being anti-union, suppressing worker wages, using...
View Article3D Systems Offers Common Stock to Acquire More 3D Printing Stuff
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D Systems has pulled a bit of a stock surprise this week. By “stock surprise”, I don’t mean “generic surprise from a collection of well-worn surprises”, but a surprise relating...
View ArticleA Pirate Class for 3D Printing Wannabes
By Michael Molitch-Hou Barbara Busatta and Dario Buzzini, of New York-based creative agency ICOSAEDRO, have found a great way of taking the success of their MACHINE-SERIES collection of open source, 3D...
View ArticleDisney’s Big Hero 6 Flashes 3D Metal Printing for Robotic Armour
By Michael Molitch-Hou Big Hero 6 is coming and it’s going to feature, based on the trailer below, a pudgy, cute robot and 3D printing. In the video, we see the film’s protagonist, Hiro Hamada, being a...
View ArticleSan Francisco: 3D Printed
By Michael Molitch-Hou Autodesk and creative agency Steelblue have demonstrated just how small the world can be with the largest 3D printed scale model of San Francisco to date. The model, fabricated...
View ArticleStructured Polymers Takes Aim at 3D Printing Materials Market After Patents...
By Michael Molitch-Hou What would you do with $1.5 million? Me? I’d probably invest some of it in a mutual fund, buy a house, donate some to my parents’ charity, and lease an electric Fiat. Maybe buy a...
View ArticleAnouk Wipprecht’s Electrifying 3D Printed Fashion – You Have to See it to...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Fashion had a good run for a while, until it culminated in the electrifying (partially) 3D printed ensemble of Dutch designer Anouk Wipprecht at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Unable...
View ArticleJapanese Company Wants to Keep You from 3D Printing Guns, Knives and Mickey Rat
By Michael Molitch-Hou News broke last month of a Japanese man who was arrested for the possession of five different 3D printed guns. So, although many of us in the United States and the west have...
View ArticleShapeways Throws Contest for 3D Printed Wedding Bling
By Michael Molitch-Hou Planning my wedding last year, I learned just how much they cost. We poured over websites, looking for the ideal wedding dress, the best klezmer band, and all of the decorations...
View ArticleAlan Meckler Talks Inside 3D Printing South Korea with Bloomberg’s Taking Stock
By Michael Molitch-Hou The Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo has been touring the world for more than a year now with the most recent event taking place in South Korea, last week. Bloomberg TV’s...
View ArticleTHRE3D Invites You to Compare 3D Printers
By Michael Molitch-Hou THRE3D, previously covered on 3DPI, is both an extensive 3D printing directory and webstore for purchasing 3D printing goods. With their polished design and numerous entries,...
View Article3D Printing Accessories and the Bigger Picture
By Michael Molitch-Hou When I read about the Esun new extruder cleaning filament, I pointed to my friend excitedly and said, “Hey, Jon! Look! This stuff will clean out my 3D printer!” To which he...
View ArticleReadymake Your Own Duchamp Chess Set
By Michael Molitch-Hou Marcel Duchamp is famous for his Readymades. His piece, Fountain, a urinal signed “R.Mutt” and submitted to (and rejected by) the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists...
View ArticlePrintrbot Re-Emphasizes Focus on Education with Printrbot Learn
By Michael Molitch-Hou Printrbot has always been big into education. Since founder Brooke Drumm’s first Kickstarter video, the brand has emphasized the ability of 3D printing to spur STEAM learning....
View ArticleCOBOT: Germany’s New Desktop 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou Germany is a hotbed of industrial 3D printing manufacturing, with companies like EOS, SLM Solutions, voxeljet, and EnvisionTEC producing specialty 3D printers to fulfill a...
View ArticleAddendum Auto Adds 3D Printed Parts to Auto Repair
By Michael Molitch-Hou Landon Crist grew up around cars, with his family’s auto repair shop based 50 feet behind their Indiana home. Crist describes his childhood experiences beautifully: “I would sit...
View ArticleBuildersBot Fuses 3D Printing & CNC Milling Into One Builder’s Dream
By Michael Molitch-Hou “Enough with the 3D printers!” some jaded friends tell me. They’ll be happy to know that I will no longer discuss 3D printers. Instead, I’ll tell them about 3D printer-CNC router...
View Article3D Printing and the Libertarian State
By Michael Molitch-Hou Did you know that there’s a movement to establish a libertarian state within the United States? The Free State Project was started in 2001, by 24-year-old Yale grad student Jason...
View ArticleAdobe Expands Photoshop 3D Printing Support
By Michael Molitch-Hou After introducing basic 3D modeling tools to CS6, which involved some simple extruding and beveling to 2D images, Adobe added 3D printing support to their cloud-based Photoshop...
View ArticleThe Tiny Robot Family that 3D Prints Together Stays Together
By Michael Molitch-Hou After all of the house printing stories we’ve been reporting this year, you’d expect all house printers to be giant gantry systems. The Minibuilders, however, are small enough to...
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