Married Couple Sends Internet SOS to Fund $4K SLS 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou Crowdfunding campaigns are most often used as a pre-order system for funding the completion and manufacturing of hardware projects. As exciting as this model might be for the...
View Article3D Printed Trump Butt Plug Trumps Previous Butt Plugs
By Michael Molitch-Hou Politically-minded 3D artist Fernando Sosa has made yet another popular 3D printed butt plug. Once again, the plug is not popular for its possible uses, but, instead for its...
View ArticlePRINTR Releases FORMIDEOS for Cloud 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Earlier this year, Dutch startup PRINTR announced the release of their 3D printer dongle, the Element. Meant to give the ability to print from the cloud to any desktop printer...
View ArticleFrench Researchers 3D Print Emergency Shelter in 30 Minutes
By Michael Molitch-Hou While still in its infancy, house printing is no longer a novel concept, but researchers at the University of Nantes (IRCCyN) are working to speed up the technology in order to...
View ArticleAmerica Makes’ Round of 3D Printing Projects Includes Electronics Printing &...
By Michael Molitch-Hou The USA’s pilot institute dedicated to 3D printing, America Makes, is now in its third round of funding for industrial additive manufacturing projects. Led by the...
View ArticleRaytheon Making Significant Inroads to 3D Printing Complete Missile
By Michael Molitch-Hou Defense companies are already well involved in the world of industrial 3D printing. Just take a look at the latest America Makes project awardees to see some of their latest...
View ArticleA 3D Printed Lamp Anyone Can Build at Home
By Michael Molitch-Hou Based out of Warsaw, Polish design firm UAU Project has been making a splash on French 3D printing repository Cults, where their Cork Pals are among the cutest printables I’ve...
View Articlenetfabb’s FIT AG Invests in €20 Million High-Volume 3D Printing Facility
By Michael Molitch-Hou FIT AG, the German parent company of popular 3D printing software developer netfabb, is experiencing some great growth from the recent boom in 3D printing worldwide. Today,...
View ArticleE3D & LittleBox Team Up for BigBox 3D Printer on Kickstarter
By Michael Molitch-Hou Those directly involved with RepRaps and other low-cost 3D printers are probably well familiar with E3D, the makers of the second all-metal hotend to hit the low-cost 3D printing...
View ArticleNew Startup to Carry Businesses into the Mixed Reality of Microsoft’s HoloLens
By Michael Molitch-Hou Microsoft’s augmented reality device, the HoloLens, has yet to be released, but companies already keen to take advantage of the wearable computer’s unique ability to overlay...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: the Earth
By Michael Molitch-Hou We’ve received a lot of flack for our coverage of stories related to symbols of political figures recently. We pride ourselves on allowing our writers to take a subjective...
View Article3D Printed, Modular Villa Assembled in Three Hours
By Michael Molitch-Hou House printing may still be a young industry, but Chinese companies are hoping to mature it really quickly. First, WinSun implemented the designs of USC’s Behrokh Khoshnevis to...
View ArticleSmithsonian to Kickstart Museum Preservation, Starting with Neil Armstrong’s...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Today, the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has launched its first-ever Kickstarter campaign, titled Reboot the Suit, to preserve human history with 3D scanning and...
View ArticleXYZprinting’s Nobel 1.0 SL Laser 3D Printer Now Available for Purchase
By Michael Molitch-Hou The low-cost photopolymer 3D printing market has only just begun to take shape, with many new entrants hitting the scene beginning last year (many of which you can learn about in...
View ArticleWASP Launches Extruder for Precision Ceramics 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou As Davide has made clear in previous posts on the company, Italian 3D printer manufacturer WASP has a unique business plan of saving the world and developing commercial products...
View ArticleDutch 3D Print Shop is Crowdfunding its Expansion
By Michael Molitch-Hou A couple of years ago, 3D printing shops were popping up all over the world, showcasing to the world just what this technology could accomplish. It was only a matter of time...
View ArticleKorean Printer Manufacturer Rokit Preps Launch into Bioprinting
By Michael Molitch-Hou Korean 3D printer manufacturer Rokit is already raising a ruckus for their multi-material Edison 3D printer. And their charismatic CEO, Yoo Seok-hwan, has already begun making...
View ArticleMakerBot Focuses on QA with New 3D Printer Factory in Brooklyn
By Michael Molitch-Hou MakerBot has been going through a lot of growing pains lately, given the lawsuit against its parent company and low stock numbers. After the closure of the brand’s retail shops...
View ArticleLifted Innovations Takes Bong 3D Printing to New Highs
By Michael Molitch-Hou Marijuana market research firm ArcView Group has estimated that the marijuana market was worth $2.7 billion in 2014, an increase of 74% from the year before, while Wohlers...
View Article3DNA Printing: Researchers Program DNA to Automatically Fold into 3D Objects
By Michael Molitch-Hou If physics is a printer management software and the Universe is the printer, you might say that creation itself is the act of 3D printing. Would that make DNA the gCode with...
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