Gloucester Community Builds 22 3D Printers in 2 Days for Middle School
By Michael Molitch-Hou Fact: 100% of people building their first 3D printer have never built a 3D printer before. So, for about 60 teachers at O’Maley Innovation Middle School in Gloucester,...
View Article3D Printed Selfies of Selfies About the Self
By Michael Molitch-Hou The self is an enigma that none of us apes can figure out. And even if someone told us what the Self was – Freud, Plato, or any of the countless ideologues past or present – we...
View Article3D Systems Borrows $150 Million for 3D Printing Purchasing Fun!
By Michael Molitch-Hou Today, 3D printing industry leader 3D Systems has entered into a $150 million five-year, unsecured revolving credit facility with its group of lenders. With the new credit...
View ArticleAutodesk’s Spark to Be Featured at Inside 3D Printing Santa Clara
By Michael Molitch-Hou About one year ago, my wife and I had the great opportunity to attend California’s first Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo, where I was exposed to some of the most amazing...
View ArticleSimplyPrint Boxes Up Simple 3D Printing for Asia & Europe
By Michael Molitch-Hou A new FDM/FFF 3D printer has been released that promises a pain-free experience for consumers with what it calls its SimplyPrint interface. The SimplyPrint 3D printer is Manli...
View ArticleThe Register’s 3D Printed Vulture Ready to Get High with LOHAN
By Michael Molitch-Hou In 2010, LOHAN got high. Really high! LOHAN got high enough to reach the edge of space and earn UK news site The Register a Guinness World Record for the “Highest-Altitude Launch...
View ArticleNanotronics’ 3D Printed nSPEC 3D: You’ve Never Seen a Microscope Like This
By Michael Molitch-Hou As the American Chemical Society kicks off its 2014 International Elastomer Conference today in Nashville, Tennessee, Nanotronics Imaging has brought to the world of research its...
View ArticleBAAM! 3D Printing Firms Join Forces to Form Bay Area Power House
By Michael Molitch-Hou If you’re big into 3D printing news, this may seem like pretty big 3D printing news: Type A Machines, producers of the Series 1 3D Printer, has just announced that they and...
View ArticleKepler Motors Hypercar Made Hyper with CRP’s 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Advanced manufacturing group CRP is known for using 3D printing technology to produce high-speed vehicles described with adjectives like “super”, such as their Energic...
View ArticlePirate3D is Down, Not Out: 3D Printing for the Visually Impaired
By Michael Molitch-Hou Pirate3D, Singapore-based manufacturers of the low-cost Buccaneer 3D printer, has received a lot of flack for the way they’ve handled their impressive Kickstarter campaign....
View ArticleWASP to Unveil New Ceramic 3D Printing Filament in Paris
By Michael Molitch-Hou WASP is not only one of the most impressive 3D printer manufacturers out of Italy, but in the world. Driven by what I believe is a true desire to help improve the human...
View ArticleTreatment for the Sole: NYC Chiropractor Treats Patients with 3D Printed Insoles
By Michael Molitch-Hou Not long after SOLS Systems took their 3D printed insoles to market in August, the mass-customized SOLS orthotics have begun helping the medical practitioners in the US,...
View ArticleZortax Shows Off the 3D Printed Future of Music
By Michael Molitch-Hou Ever since I wrote about Berlin-based musician Onyx Ashanti and his home-made, 3D printed, full-body MIDI controllers, I’ve been waiting for tech-savvy musicians to begin a wave...
View Article3D Printing Loves David Hasselhoff More than the Germans
By Michael Molitch-Hou Things3D has already begun taking the lead in 3D printed marketing, creating a series of 3D printable characters from Aardman Studios and working to create 3D printable tie-ins...
View ArticleArtist 3D Prints Animated Film without Film
By Michael Molitch-Hou Remember when you were just a kid and you drew these little flip-book animations, possibly using a pad of sticky notes? Then, you grew up and got a job and slowly surfed the...
View ArticleWave Hello to 21st Century Light & Sound with 3D Printed Parts
By Michael Molitch-Hou Frank Cohen spent a great deal of time in the tech industry, working on products like NORTON Antivirus, Sun Community Server, and the original Internet products released by...
View ArticleOak Ridge National Lab Controls 3D Printed Metal at the Microscale
By Michael Molitch-Hou While some researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are working on large scale 3D printing, as demonstrated with the Local Motors 3D printed car,...
View ArticleThe Luckiest Place on Earth Forged with Metal 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Renishaw, the UK’s only metal 3D printer manufacturer, has participated in a project to bring both a tiny bit of luck and generosity to the world. Working with Folkestone-based...
View ArticleLimitState Promises to Fix 3D Printing Mesh Errors in Record Time
By Michael Molitch-Hou As exciting as 3D printing is for the average person, there are a number of hurdles one has to pass before realizing the technology’s full potential. 3D modeling continues to be...
View Article30 3D Models via 30 3D Scanning Technologies, Thanks to Sketchfab
By Michael Molitch-Hou As I’ve seen SketchFab grow over my time writing for 3DPI, it’s become more and more clear how such a platform is a vital part of emerging 3D technology. In between constantly...
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