Implications for 3D Printing: Particles Form Gelatin-Like Substance at High...
By Michael Molitch-Hou New research from a team at New York University may have significant implications for materials research and lead to sharpened detail in 3D printing. Published in Nature...
View ArticleSintratec Desktop Laser Sintering 3D Printer Approaches Crowdfunding Release
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last month, we reported on the Sintratec 3D printer, a desktop laser sintering machine with a price tag of €3990. The Swiss startup behind the machine is moving closer to the 3D...
View ArticleNew Kinect Adapter Gives 3D Builder Full-Color 3D Scanning Powers for 3D...
By Michael Molitch-Hou With a number of open source and commercial apps for 3D scanning with the Microsoft Kinect, it has become a favorite tool for DIY 3D printed portrait booths. When the new Xbox...
View ArticleAll 3D Printed Parts Served to You on a Silver Build Plate
By Michael Molitch-Hou Here’s a useful tool for all of you 3D printer users out there! When 3D printing multiple parts in a single build, it can be a real pain in the extruder to lay them out to...
View Article3D Printing Helps Husband Seek Treatment for Wife’s Brain Tumor
By Michael Molitch-Hou In the dawning of this new Maker era, in which advanced technology is decreasing in price and information is increasing in proliferation, ordinary individuals are gifted with...
View ArticleCEA Reports Future Growth and $$$ in Consumer 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou According to a report from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA), the group behind the enormous International Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas every year, about...
View ArticleGartner: 3D Printers to Reach 2.3 Million Shipments Totaling $13.4 Billion...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Industrial research firm Gartner has put out its latest report on 3D printing, in which it projects that the worldwide shipments of 3D printers will more than double every year...
View ArticleTITAN American Built’ Wants to Rebuild America with 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing has made it to the world of TV infotainment, with MAVTV, the one and only network devoted to an “action-oriented family audience”, having launched TITAN American...
View ArticleXYZprinting Adds 3D Scanning to Its Affordable da Vinci 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou XYZprinting, the company behind the low-cost da Vinci 3D printer has just upgraded their desktop fabricator with the much awaited 3D scanner, yielding the da Vinci 1.0 AiO...
View ArticleSolid Concepts Employee 3D Prints Personalized Pistol
By Michael Molitch-Hou After having created the first firearm 3D printed in metal, in November of last year, 3D printing service bureau and recently acquired Stratasys subsidiary Solid Concepts has...
View ArticleManufacturer of Large-Scale 3D Printer Finds New CEO
By Michael Molitch-Hou Machine tool manufacturer Cincinnati Incorporated, partly responsible for the Big Area Additive Manufacturing machine that 3D printed the Local Motors electric car, has just...
View ArticleThe Story of Makible and 3D Printing’s First “Everything Must Go” Sale
By Michael Molitch-Hou In looking over the manufacturers of some small, consumer 3D printers, my wife, Danielle, and I came across many now defunct websites: startups excited to bring their machines to...
View ArticleThe White House Celebrates the Holidays with an Instructables 3D Printing...
By Michael Molitch-Hou The White House is continuing to align itself with the Maker movement, first hosting its very own Maker Faire in June and, now, celebrating the holidays in Maker fashion by...
View ArticleWeld3D Puts Low-Cost Pedal to 3D Printing Metal
By Michael Molitch-Hou As exciting as low-cost plastic printing is to most people in the 3D printing community, 3D printed metal may always be more indicative of the progress of and ultimate...
View ArticleThe Modular MM1 3D Printer Opens Up, Bears Gifts Upon KS Funding
By Michael Molitch-Hou The modular MM1 3D printer, from MakerMax, has successfully completed its crowdfudning campaign, currently over its goal of $50k by about $8k, at the time of this writing. With...
View ArticleGoogle’s Project Ara Prototype is Working This Time!
By Michael Molitch-Hou At Google I/O in June, the multinational gave audiences a glimpse of a “working” prototype of Project Ara. Unfortunately, their modular smartphone, which will have its modules 3D...
View ArticleBOO! A GIANT 3D PRINTED FRANKESTEIN HEAD!
By Michael Molitch-Hou Halloween is here! And so is an enormous, 2.25′ tall Frankenstein head, 3D printed by 3DPUnlimited. The 3D printer manufacturer behind the 3DP1000 3D printer, which has an...
View ArticleInside 3D Printing Opens Doors in Shanghai Next Tuesday
By Michael Molitch-Hou Shanghai’s first significant 3D printing conference is kicking off next week, as the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo head to the city with 3D printing speakers and...
View ArticleAligning Form and Function with the flexFORM 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou Perhaps reflecting Gartner’s prediction that plug-n-play 3D printers would drive the coming consumer 3D printing surge, flexFORM is a new Polish 3D printer that promises...
View Article3D Printing a Small Part for a Big Cause
By Michael Molitch-Hou Though humans may be the most powerful species on the planet, the Earth’s ecosystem is home to about 8.7 million different species. Despite the small slice of biodiversity that...
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