3D Printing Enables Medical Models with Blood, Guts, & All
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing has been aiding doctors prepare for numerous surgeries by providing highly-detailed, patient specific models to better inform surgeons before entering the operating...
View ArticleAutodesk Releases Recipe for Ember 3D Printing Material
By Michael Molitch-Hou Autodesk is, from all outward appearances, intending to make every bit of their DLP Ember 3D printer open source, including the material it uses. Today, the...
View ArticleAnvil Creation Center 3D Printer Hits Kickstarter for $349
By Michael Molitch-Hou Covering the desktop 3D printing boom that has occurred since 2012, I have learned not to underestimate newcomers to an already crowded market. Regardless of the number of...
View Article3D Printing Hillary Clinton to Kickstart Her Presidential Campaign
By Michael Molitch-Hou In 2008, grassroots supporters of Barack Obama took huge efforts to push the candidate into office and become the first African American President of the United States. Among...
View ArticleTinkerine U Launches as Extensive One-Stop-Shop for 3D Printing Education
By Michael Molitch-Hou A couple of weeks back, I wrote about Canadian-based Tinkerine Studios’ desire to dominate the field of 3D printing education. Whether or not they’ll succeed, when up against...
View ArticleRobert Downey Jr. Presents 3D Printed Bionic Arm to Mini Iron Man
By Michael Molitch-Hou At the end of last year, we reported on a unique spin-off of E-nable’s 3D printed prosthetics project called Limbitless Solutions. Headed up by E-nable volunteer and University...
View ArticleActress Grace Mandeville Dons Swarovski-Studded, 3D Printed Prosthetic from...
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing has already ushered in a new era of low-cost prosthetics. In addition to yielding custom limbs that are orders of magnitude less expensive than their traditionally...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: Mount Everest
By Michael Molitch-Hou Break out your BigRep ONE.2 or Cheetah 3D printer! This week’s free 3D printable is huge. Or tiny, depending on how you choose to print it. Sketchfab user Lite, an expert at...
View ArticleThe Hard Work of 3D Printing a Melodica Pays Off
By Michael Molitch-Hou While a great beginner’s instrument, the melodica is only a step above the kazoo or the recorder when it comes to playing professional tunes. For that reason, London-based...
View ArticleLinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of March 14
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 ArticleBoard Games Made Open Source with 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou There have been a number of Makers that have pursued the 3D printing of game pieces for such popular games as Warhammer 40k and Carcassonne, perhaps infringing on the IP of one...
View ArticleUpdate: Volunteer to Digitally Restore the Two Authentic Artifacts from...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Among the innumerable tragedies brought about by war is the destruction of cultural artifacts that hold the keys to our collective human history. In the wake of the most recent...
View ArticleNew & Improved Recycling Standards for the 3D Printing Era
By Michael Molitch-Hou The Pearce Research Group at Michigan Tech has made yet another significant step in making 3D printing a more sustainable practice. Though the university lab has made a good...
View ArticlePolish TYTAN Emerges with Gaja Multitool 3D Printer & 10 Interchangeable...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Poland has been increasingly putting out popular and impressive desktop manufacturing machines, with one of the most versatile being Zmorph’s multi-tool personal fabricator. The...
View Articleda Vinci 3D Printer Gets Essential Wi-Fi, Mobile App Upgrade
By Michael Molitch-Hou XYZprinting, makers of the low-cost da Vinci series of desktop 3D printers, has just announced an important upgrade to their flagship da Vinci 1.0 3D printer. The new da Vinci...
View ArticleMakerBot Partners with Affirm and LEAF to Finance 3D Printer Purchasing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Getting 3D printers into the hands of customers is no easy task, given the price of many desktop 3D printing systems. While some manufacturers have managed to drop the price of...
View ArticleRobots and 3D Printing Unite at NYC’s First RoboUniverse
By Michael Molitch-Hou As exciting as 3D printing is, our favorite technology would be nothing without the larger field of robotics. And MecklerMedia, the company behind the world’s largest 3D...
View ArticleTurkish Company Milks 3D Printing with Mini Milk Truck
By Michael Molitch-Hou Remember the good ol’ days when the milkman delivered milk right to your door? Me either! But, today, massive trucks are still used to deliver milk to and from their factories....
View ArticleHey, Jude, Check Out This 3D Printed Paul McCartney!
By Michael Molitch-Hou He may not be everyone’s favorite Beatle, due to “Spies Like Us”, but anyone who knows me knows that I’m a big Paul McCartney fan. I even played him in my own inaccurate...
View ArticleAirbus 3D Printed Components to Launch on Next UK Satellite
By Michael Molitch-Hou After spending two years in R&D on the project, UK defense manufacturer Airbus Defence and Space is 3D printing space-qualified satellite components for the UK Space Agency...
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