Carnegie Mellon and Lehigh University Awarded Grants for Advanced 3D Printing...
By Michael Molitch-Hou As America Makes continues to cultivate public-private partnerships around 3D printing technology, the USA’s original additive manufacturing institute has announced, in...
View ArticleAerojet Rocketdyne Awarded Contract for Large Scale 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou After successfully testing a 3D printed rocket engine, Aerojet Rocketdyne has been awarded a contract from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to develop and demonstrate large-scale...
View ArticleConsumer 3D Printing More than 5 Years Away from Mainstream Adoption, Says...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Industry research firm, Gartner, Inc., is celebrating the 20th birthday of their beloved Hype Cycle with their latest report, “Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2014″. In...
View ArticleThe Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo Hits Hong Kong Next Week
By Michael Molitch-Hou Next week sees the opening of Hong Kong’s first significant 3D printing convention, the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo, which will bring to the region a slew of 3D...
View ArticleDavid the Pellet 3D Printer is Live on Kickstarter
By Michael Molitch-Hou After much build-up, David, the pellet printer from Sculptify, has launched his Kickstarter campaign. With many pre-release news, we learned that David will run directly on...
View ArticleRobo3D 3D Prints its Own Version of the Ice Bucket Challenge
By Michael Molitch-Hou In the midst of the Ice Bucket Challenge sweeping celebs, CEOs, and regular folk all over the ‘net, it was only a matter of time before 3D printing got involved. The first 3D...
View ArticleMakerBot Teams with Fraemes for 3D Printed iPhone Cases
By Michael Molitch-Hou Back in June, MakerBot launched its MakerBot Developer Program, meant to easily connect app developers and game designers to the MakerBot 3D Ecosystem by handing them all of the...
View ArticleThere’s a New Face in 3D Printing at FormLabs
By Michael Molitch-Hou Formlabs, manufacturer of the Form 1 desktop stereolithography 3D printer, has just added a new executive to its team. After serving as the Managing Director of the Boston...
View ArticleMcor’s Conor MacCormack Performs the Ice Bucket Challenge, Nominates Big 3D...
By Michael Molitch-Hou After ROBO3D’s Braydon Moreno kicked off the Ice Bucket Challenge for the 3D printing world yesterday, the ALS awareness meme has continued to spread. This time, to the world’s...
View ArticleIon Core Makes Big Sale of Zinter PRO Desktop 3D Printers to Airbus Group
By Michael Molitch-Hou UK-based Ion Core, manufacturer of the Zinter line of desktop 3D printers, has just made a big sale. Like jumbo jet big. The company will be supplying their Zinter PRO Desktop...
View ArticleResearchers Develop Method for 3D Printing Chemotherapeutic Medicines on...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Most of the medical stories we’ve covered involve hi-tech, expensive 3D printing equipment with accompanying bio-compatible materials. And, though laser sintering machines may...
View ArticleBarilla Launches 3D Printed Pasta Contest with Thingarage
By Michael Molitch-Hou In January, we reported news that leading pasta maker Barilla had teamed up with Dutch scientific research firm TNO to work on a custom 3D pasta printer, capable of printing...
View ArticleEuropean Desktop 3D Printers Continue to Enter US Market with Leapfrog
By Michael Molitch-Hou After earlier reporting that Felixrobotix, Dutch manufacturer of the Felix 3.0 3D printer, had opened up a retail branch in Silicon Valley, another line of Dutch machines is...
View ArticleLawrence Livermore Researchers Control Microscopic Cushioning Properties with...
By Michael Molitch-Hou The Advanced Manufacturing Lab at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is continuing to make progress in the field of material design for 3D printing. In January, we...
View ArticleAfter Impressive Emergency Landing, Harrier Jet Requires Tender 3D Printed Care
By Michael Molitch-Hou Back in May, Marine Capt. William Mahoney was forced to make an impressive emergency landing of an AV-8B Harrier jet on the deck of the USS Bataan after his nose gear failed to...
View ArticleJason Lopes of Legacy Effects and Rachel Park of 3D Printing Industry Perform...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Yesterday, the Ice Bucket Challenge continued in the 3D printing universe when CEO of Mcor, Conor MacCormack, called out three more players in the industry to join in. While...
View ArticleAfiniac eBook Details 3D Printing Projects of Afinia Users
By Michael Molitch-Hou Ah, the weekend! The perfect time to sit down, with a bottle of Kombucha in one hand and your e-reader or tablet in the other, and pore over all of those PDFs you downloaded from...
View Article3D Systems Treats Renowned Chef to 3D Printed Absinthe Treat in 50 Course...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Though I’m not intimately involved with modernist chefs, I have the feeling that 3D printed food fits perfectly into this culinary art movement. As chefs in the movement explore...
View ArticleHow 3D Printing Changes the World of Music
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing and music stem from two different areas of the sensual spectrum, with music seemingly isolated to the realm of hearing and 3D printing as sort of a tactile, visual...
View ArticleMarines to Test 3D Systems’ 3D Printing Toolkit Live During Annual Wargame
By Michael Molitch-Hou We’ve written, on more than one occasion, about how the world’s various armed forces might utilize 3D printing in the field of battle. With mobile labs like the Rapid Equipping...
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