America Makes 3D Printing Satellite Center Launches at UTEP
By Michael Molitch-Hou The first national 3D printing institute in the United States, America Makes, has begun to expand, finding a satellite location at the site of the institute’s platinum-level...
View ArticleWith In-Q-Tel Funding, Fuel3D to Develop 3D Scanning for US Government
By Michael Molitch-Hou Not long ago, we reported that Voxel8, the makers of the first desktop electronics 3D printer, had received an investment from In-Q-Tel (IQT), the investment arm of the...
View ArticleAirbus A350 XWB Takes Off with Over 1,000 3D Printed Parts
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing for prototyping aerospace parts is a long-established practice, but only in recent years has the technology made its way into the production of end-use parts. While...
View Article3D Hubs May Trend Report Offers Data on 16,000+ 3D Printer Users
By Michael Molitch-Hou It’s a new month! Which means that there is a new 3D Hubs Trend Report. And, now, due to new partnerships with Sketchfab, Thingiverse, and Instructables, the distributed...
View ArticleUpdate: NEA 3D Passes $75k Indiegogo with Early Bird 3D Printers Still Available
By Michael Molitch-Hou NEA 3D’s very beautiful family of 3D printers waltzed into CES this year, where they were met with attendees that fawned over, the elegant appearance of the PRO Mini, PRO, and...
View ArticleMakerarm to Flex Hybrid 3D Printing Muscle at Bay Area Maker Faire
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3DPI has reported on numerous hybrid 3D printing technologies, both industrial and desktop, at this year’s Bay Area Maker Faire, a unique 3D printing project will be unveiled for...
View Article3D Hubs to Teleport Objects Anywhere, Everywhere with 3D Printing API
By Michael Molitch-Hou As we’ve seen over the course of a few months, 3D Hubs, the largest distributed network of 3D printers, has been installing its 3D print buttons all over the web. Users on...
View ArticleToyota Creates Ultimate Personal Vehicle with 3D Printed Customization
By Michael Molitch-Hou An increasing number of companies are relying on 3D printing as a means of allowing customers to customize their products. From iRobot to Hoover, GE to Canon, manufacturers are...
View ArticleDefense Distributed Sues State Department for Freedom of 3D Printable Gun Speech
By Michael Molitch-Hou If you’ve been following the adventures of crypto-anarchist Cody Wilson, you may recall that, two years ago, the founder of Defense Distributed and man behind the 3D printable...
View Article3D Systems Expands 3D Printer Distribution to Best Buy, Carolina Wholesale
By Michael Molitch-Hou Consumer 3D printing continues to go mainstream. Despite, or perhaps because of, disappointing Q1 results, Stratasys has expanded its MakerBot distribution significantly and,...
View ArticleSand Made to Launch Low-Cost SLS 3D Printer at TEDx Krakow
By Michael Molitch-Hou As the original selective laser sintering (SLS) patents expire, a number of ventures are rushing to develop their own, low-cost sintering machines to enable an ever-greater...
View ArticleA 3D Printed Justin Bieber Vibrator from MakerLove
By Michael Molitch-Hou There are an increasing number of businesses that have found the marriage between digital fabrication and sex to be a fruitful one, learning that 3D printing can allow for the...
View ArticleInside 3D Printing Returns to Melbourne with Digital & Additive Pavilion
By Michael Molitch-Hou Inside 3D Printing is heading to Melbourne for the second time in just about two weeks and, this year, they’re partnering with AMTIL at Austech Exhibition for an entire Digital...
View ArticleLinkBits: 3D Printing News for the Week of May 9
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 Systems Sends Industrial 3D Printing Abroad
By Michael Molitch-Hou The past couple of weeks have seen 3D Systems make a number of distribution agreements abroad and in the United States. On the consumer side, the company began increasing the US...
View ArticleUpdate: Bocusini Plug & Play Food 3D Printer Now Cooking on Kickstarter
By Michael Molitch-Hou With a clock counting down the time until their Kickstarter launches (currently set at 19 hours to go), Print2Taste has already launched the site for their Bocusini food 3D...
View ArticlePolymaker Remakes Itself with $3 Million Funding Round Led by Lenovo’s Legend...
By Michael Molitch-Hou As the 3D printing arena moves from hype to the edification of a substantial industry, the wheat will be separated from the chaff via genuine innovation, solid business strategy,...
View Article3D Printing Industry Awarded Best Website for 3D Printing News by CGTrader...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Founded in 2011, 3D model marketplace CGTrader has become a massive community of 180,000 members sharing and selling countless models for computer graphics and 3D printing. With...
View ArticleQueensland Government Drops 3D Printed Gun Bill
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last year, Queensland came close becoming the first Australian state to formally ban 3D printed guns. In May, 2014, former LNP parliamentarian Carl Judge, from the PUP Party,...
View Article3D Printing Enters Australian Office Supply Chain Officeworks
By Michael Molitch-Hou While US office supply chain Staples has been providing 3D printing services for some time in the US and Europe, the Australian equivalent, Officeworks, is just beginning to...
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