LinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of February 28th
By Michael Molitch-Hou Another week, another round of LinkBits: your source for brief bits of news from the 3D printing industry. The industry is booming and so are we, so here is a list of stories...
View ArticleAmerica Makes Announces Call for Industrial 3D Printing Projects
By Michael Molitch-Hou Established almost two and a half years ago, America Makes (also known as the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute) has already awarded two rounds of funding to...
View ArticleAprecia Preps to 3D Print Medicine with New Facility
By Michael Molitch-Hou Since its conception, the 3D printing of pharmaceuticals has been an exciting, if confusing, idea, yet to fully be put into practice. Lee Cronin, of the University of Glasgow,...
View ArticleZ-Unlimited on Kickstarter: Take Your Ultimaker 3D Printer Unlimited Heights
By Michael Molitch-Hou In 3D printing a life-size elephant for the “Get Off the Elephant” campaign, Dutch inventor Joris van Tubergen developed a simple, elegant solution for extending the Z-axis of...
View ArticleCody Wilson Denied Mark One Carbon Fiber 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou Cody Wilson, now infamous for 3D printing a fragile plastic gun called the Liberator, has continued to trigger controversy through various initiatives, quotes, and actions. A...
View ArticleMakerBot Hopes to Bring 3D Printing Starter Labs to Schools and Libraries
By Michael Molitch-Hou MakerBot has previously opened several Innovation Centers at colleges in the US, providing the schools with a complete suite of MakerBot products. The company is now expanding...
View ArticleA Kickstarter to Launch this 3D Printed Martini Glass into Space
By Michael Molitch-Hou The Cosmic Lifestyle Corporation (CLC) describes life in space cleverly in the video for its new Kickstarter campaign, “The way they live [in space] is kind of like a glorified...
View ArticleInside 3D Printing Sambas to Brazil Next Week
By Michael Molitch-Hou In case you missed Carnival last month, Brazil’s second biggest event of the year is about to hit the streets of Sao Paulo. Of course, I’m talking about the Inside 3D Printing...
View ArticleVoxel8 Electronics 3D Printer Receives Investment from US Intelligence Community
By Michael Molitch-Hou Voxel8’s multi-material electronics 3D printer has only been on the market for about two months and, already, the Massachusetts-based start-up has made some powerful partners....
View ArticleHow to Win Friends & Two Ultimaker 2 3D Printers
By Michael Molitch-Hou Dutch 3D printer manufacturer Ultimaker is clearly growing. The latest 3D Hubs Trend Report has the Ultimaker 2 listed as the most popular printer in Europe and, while the...
View ArticleShapeways + Friends Host 1st Meta AR Hackathon in SF this Weekend
By Michael Molitch-Hou REAL 2015 may have ended, but reality computing is continuing to be felt in the Bay Area with the first ever Meta Augmented Reality Hackathon taking place this weekend from March...
View ArticleWin a Pebble Time Smart Watch in MyMiniFactory’s 3D Printing Contest
By Michael Molitch-Hou After becoming the most successful Kickstarter product in history, the Pebble Time smart watch will be coming to market with a number of fun and colorful features. To prepare...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: an Indian Rhino
By Michael Molitch-Hou A little while back, 3DPI’s Davide Sher covered a new, free software called Smoothie-3D, which allows users to create 3D printable models from 2D images with ease. Using the 2D...
View ArticleExOne Unveils Massive 3D Printer for Serial Production
By Michael Molitch-Hou ExOne, which already manufactures some pretty big industrial 3D printers, has just announced their largest 3D printing system to date, the Exerial™. With an eye on end-production...
View ArticleLinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of March 7
By Michael Molitch-Hou Another week, another round of LinkBits: your source for brief bits of news from the 3D printing industry. The industry is booming and so are we, so here is a list of stories...
View Article3D Hubs Launches Special Filament Workshop Worldwide
By Michael Molitch-Hou For the past two years, 3D Hubs, the world’s largest distributed network of 3D printers, has been growing its community through meet-ups in countries all over the world. At...
View ArticleSolidWorks in the Cloud? Onshape CAD Modeling Launches Public Beta
By Michael Molitch-Hou I received an email today from Nancy Yi Liang, of Amazon (née MixeeLabs), with the subject line “Onshape Launches, SolidWorks in the cloud?” The link she directed me to was for a...
View ArticleXYZPrinting Expands 3D Printer Distribution to B&H Photo Video
By Michael Molitch-Hou Taiwanese manufacturer of low-cost, desktop 3D printers XYZPrinting is developing its products at a fast pace, announcing the development of everything from SLA to food printers...
View ArticleThe 2015 Hackaday Prize: Save the Planet, Fly to Space!
By Michael Molitch-Hou Supplyframe‘s DIY community, Hackaday, has been gaining a huge amount of traction and growing along with the flourishing Maker movement. And their 2015 Hackaday Prize...
View ArticleFormlabs Brings Low-Cost SLA 3D Printing to China
By Michael Molitch-Hou The desktop 3D printing industry is now in full-on expansion mode, with every manufacturer from MakerBot to Ultimaker to Leapfrog bringing their brands to multiple continents....
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