MakerBot Brand 3D Printing to Spread Across Europe
By Michael Molitch-Hou After the launch of MakerBot Europe, the consumer 3D printer manufacturer has begun its march across Europe. The company has partnered with European Autodesk distributor and...
View Article3D Hubs Adds 10,000th 3D Printer to Network
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D Hubs has made a huge impact on the 3D printing industry, ushering in a new production paradigm made not of centralized corporations with heavy polluting manufacturing plants,...
View ArticleMake Sure Your Model 3D Prints with Shapeways 3D Tools
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last year, the big 3D printing bureaus began to evolve their customer-facing 3D printing tools. Shapeways introduced a wall-thickness fixing tool in March to allow users to...
View ArticleNEA Spawns Beautiful Family of 3D Printers at CES
By Michael Molitch-Hou Launched at CES this year is one of the most elegant looking series of desktop 3D printers I’ve seen so far, more than eligible for Shane’s Sexiest 3D Printer award. The NEA...
View ArticleTop 10 3D Printing Updates from CES 2015
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing at International CES 2015 was big, reflecting the technology’s transition from a purely industrial and Maker tool to something for consumers, too. The 3D Printing...
View ArticleIs the CubeJet Full-Color 3D Printer On its Way?
By Michael Molitch-Hou Within all of the hubbub surrounding CES 2015, 3D Systems has been quietly posting videos onto their CES announcements page, marketing some of their new products with sleek...
View ArticleTop 6 Reality Computing Takeaways from CES
By Michael Molitch-Hou The biggest 3D printing star at CES 2015 – apart from Voxel8’s electronics 3D printer – wasn’t actually 3D printing. It was Reality Computing/Blended Reality/the Digital Thread....
View Article4 3D Printing Products from the Future at CES 2015
By Michael Molitch-Hou As is the case with CES every year, CES 2015 put the future of technology on full display. While other media sites may focus on new smartphones, cameras, and self-driving cars,...
View ArticleThe Eight-Armed Choctopus Chocolate 3D Printer in Action
By Michael Molitch-Hou While everyone got excited about Hans Fouche’s 3D printed lawn mower shell, followed by all of the crazy food printing at CES, it’s worth remembering that Hans actually started...
View ArticleWorld’s Largest Metal Cutting Manufacturer Opens 3D Printing R&D Center
By Michael Molitch-Hou Sweden’s Sandvik AB (SAND) has been around since 1862, growing to encompass 47,000 employees across 130 countries as the world’s biggest producer of metal-cutting tools. The...
View ArticleitSeez3D Enables Full Body 3D Scanning for 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Back when I reviewed the Structure Sensor for the iPad, I was overjoyed with the ease and quality of the itSeez3D 3D scanning app designed for the Structure. The app made it...
View ArticleLocal Motors to Open 2 New Car 3D Printing Facilities This Year
By Michael Molitch-Hou As 3DPI’s Andrew Wheeler promised last month, Local Motors has gone ahead and 3D printed another copy of their famous Strati car. This time, at the North American International...
View ArticleIntel RealSense 3D Scanner Yields Glass CES Busts
By Michael Molitch-Hou At CES this year, 3D printing was woven into the consumer world even further. In addition to a 3D Printing Marketplace with double the footprint of last year’s event, products...
View ArticleVoxel8 to 3D Print Antenna Arrays for Government Sponsor
By Michael Molitch-Hou After the company’s giant splash at CES last week, the manufacturer of the first electronics printing platform, Voxel8, has already begun securing new partnerships. Today, the...
View ArticleSpectrom Takes Full-Color 3D Printing to the Desktop
By Michael Molitch-Hou At CES last week, a start-up started up by a couple of University of Wisconsin students wowed attendees with their fascinating, potentially breakthrough, 3D printing device....
View ArticleTurbomeca Opens 3D Printing Facility for Helicopter Engine Parts
By Michael Molitch-Hou If there was any doubt that 3D printing has made it into mainstream industrial manufacturing, manufacturer of helicopter parts Turbomeca has proven it once again with a new 3D...
View ArticleKai Parthy Releases Clear, Flexible 3D Printing Filament
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing materials inventor Kai Parthy has had one small niche missing from his every-growing line of filaments. He may have invented Laywood and Laybrick, resulting in a...
View ArticleAdafruit Upgrades Gameboy with 3D Printable, Handheld Super Nintendo
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last year, the Ruiz Brothers at Adafruit celebrated the 25th birthday of the Gameboy with a complete tutorial for 3D printing and assembling your own Gameboy. The Raspberry...
View ArticleFELIX v3.0 3D Printers Now Bundled with Materialise Builder
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last week, some of the biggest news coming from 3D printer manufacturer Leapfrog 3D was that 3D printing software developer and service provider Materialise would be powering the...
View ArticleHospitalized Children to Receive Virtual Zoo Tours from the 3D Printed InMoov...
By Michael Molitch-Hou By now, you may be familiar with the InMoov robot. My first post for 3DPI detailed the work behind Gaël Langevin’s open source, 3D printed robot. With the help of the online...
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