Award Winning Structure 3D Sensor for iPad Available for Pre-Order
The Structure 3D Sensor for the iPad, which exploded on Kickstarter back in September, has finally ended its crowdfunding campaign and moved onto official, non-Kickstarter pre-order status. Now, you...
View ArticleOpen Source Appliances Declare “There’s Got to Be a Better Way!”
In the 1950s, manufacturers marketed new appliances to make housework easier, to make life easier. Over the years, these appliances proliferated to the point of absurdity (at least in the United...
View ArticleUS Attorney General Seeks to Continue Ban on Plastic Guns
The Undetectable Firearms Act, which makes it illegal in the United States to own a gun that cannot be registered by a metal detector, is set to expire on December 9th of this year. Since the...
View ArticleMicrosoft Releases 3D Builder App for Windows 8.1 — A Building Base for Easy...
After integrating native 3D-printing support into Windows 8.1 and partnering with Stratasys-owned Makerbot to sell Replicators in Microsoft stores, Microsoft has released its first 3D printing app for...
View ArticleUpon Kickstarter Funding, Helix 3D Printer Announces Stretch Goals
Earlier this month, Colin let us know about the Helix 3D Printer from Acuity Design, based in Missoula, Montana. The design group had already put $70k of their own dollars towards realizing a unique...
View Article3D Printing to Save Critters is Becoming North Carolina State’s M.O.
Life can be tough for the creatures that haven’t reincarnated themselves to full-human status, yet. Without opposable thumbs and kick-ass forebrains, it’s almost impossible to invent new technologies...
View ArticleMakerPoint and the Future of 3D Printing Retail
Ah, MakerPoint. The place where all the teens go on Friday nights to start making. Overlooks the ol’ rock quarry, amiright? Nope. That’s a different kind of point for a different kind of making. Based...
View Article3D Printing with Bitcoins from London’s 3Distributed
At about the same time that 3D printing began to rise in popularity, Bitcoin started making its way into the zeitgeist. The digital currency, almost free from government control, has been heralded as...
View ArticleUK’s CAM Is Part of CERN’s Business Incubation Centre
You know when someone throws a party and they don’t bother to invite you? That’s how I feel about CERN. Over in Switzerland, all of these scientists are having a big get-together to understand the...
View ArticleThanksgiving Contest: Shapeways is Grateful for You, What are You Grateful For?
There’s a terrifying holiday that happens in autumn of every year, mostly in the United States and Canada, in which ravenous creatures murder and devour defenseless animals while the ghosts of the land...
View Article3D Printed Ladybug Keyboard from ODD Guitars and 3D Systems
There’s not one person who doesn’t like bugs crawling all over their stuff and that’s why ODD Guitars, famous for their 3D printed guitars proudly displayed and played at every 3D Systems expo booth,...
View ArticleApple Acquiring Kinect Manufacturer PrimeSense?
Earlier this year, rumours sprouted up about Apple’s possible intent to purchase the Israeli company behind the original Microsoft Kinect, PrimeSense, for $280 million. The story soon dissipated, with...
View Article123D Catch Updated for a More Seamless Experience
When Autodesk released 123D Catch for iOS more than a year ago, I was thrilled and thought that it would be the key to making 3D printing accessible to the mainstream. If you could just take a series...
View ArticleMassdrop Drops Prices by Bulk Ordering 3D Printers and Supplies
This is awesome! It’s realllllly brilliant. I mean, this is how things should have been working all along! /End article/ Just joshin’! So here’s what the smart thing is: Massdrop is a website that...
View ArticleCompany Behind “Europe’s First 3D Printer” Acquired by French Robotics Firm
A new 3D printer company has emerged in France, through the acquisition of an old one. Prodways is the result of a purchase by the Gorgé Group of 3D printing innovator, Phidias Technologies. And the...
View ArticlePortabee GO Portable 3D Printer is Go!
One of the most recent trends in desktop 3D printers is to take it off the desktop and make it go portable. Examples include, in order of recency: the Lumifold, the Tobeca, and the Bukito. The most...
View ArticleSigma Labs Extends Contract with Honeywell Aerospace
With 3D metal printing still in its toddler stages, quality control still leaves a lot to be desired. Sigma Labs is one of the few companies publicly working to solve the problem of ensuring...
View ArticleFripp Design and Research to Release Soft Tissue Prostheses Printer Picsima
3DPI’s newest writer, Davide Sher, recently relayed the stunningly real prosthetics of Fripp Design and Research, based at the Advanced Manufacturing Park of Sheffield in the UK. The company behind the...
View ArticleThe First Printathon Ever(?) Starts Tomorrow at NUMA
Have you ever been to a Printathon? Me neither. Now’s our chance to go to what Sculpteo is calling the “first Printathon ever”! And it starts tomorrow! I’ll give you a minute to try to imagine what a...
View ArticleUSC Professor 3D Prints Multi-Material Objects Faster
For 3D printing to reach its true potential, there are a number of hurdles yet to be fully overcome, including the ability to cohesively — and cost-effectively — 3D print multi-material objects. The...
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