KerfCase Releases First Metal 3D Printed iPhone 6 Cases
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printed iPhone cases have been around since just about the dawn of desktop 3D printing, but never has a 3D printed smartphone case been as classy as the ALLOY, from KerfCase,...
View ArticleTiertime Fights Back Against Stratasys on Home Turf with uCRobotics Lawsuit
By Michael Molitch-Hou As the 3D printing industry grows, so do the lawsuits. I may be missing a few, but, so far, here are the lawsuits occurring in the industry: Stratasys v Afinia, Shareholders v...
View ArticleHP to Lay Off Tens of Thousands as Business Split Looms
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last fall, HP announced that it would be splitting into two corporate entities, as it launched its blended reality and 3D printing products. For months now, HP CEO Meg Whitman...
View ArticleInnoCircle Expands with 6 Colors of Recycled PLA Filaments for 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Though Innofil3D has been manufacturing 3D printing filament since 2012 as a white label business, the company launched as its own brand in 2013, becoming one of Europe’s leading...
View ArticleUpdate: MyMiniFactory Hits Equity Crowdfunding Goal with £500K
By Michael Molitch-Hou The first European crowdfunding campaign for equity in a 3D printing company has just launched and it’s already more than 60% past its £500,000 goal. MyMiniFactory, the 3D...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: The Mask of Calakmul
By Michael Molitch-Hou From now until November 26th of this year, attendees of the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico City will be treated to an impeccable mask that is almost two thousand years...
View ArticlePre-Order Your 3D Printed Car from Local Motors Next Month
By Michael Molitch-Hou Local Motors has gone from 3D printing its prototype Strati car on the floor of the IMTS show in Chicago last year to taking their printed cars to the streets starting next year....
View ArticleFirst-of-its-Kind Nerve Regeneration Pulled Off with 3D Printed Nerve Guides
By Michael Molitch-Hou According to market research firm Gartner, 3D printing in the medical sector is climbing towards a peak of hypeability and nothing could be more hype-worthy than the regeneration...
View ArticleAdvanced Paving Tech Seeks to Pave the Roads of the Future in 3D
By Michael Molitch-Hou Traffic sucks, and, according to the American Highway Users Alliance, one of the major causes of traffic jams, after bottlenecks and traffic incidents, is roadwork, accounting...
View ArticleAutodesk Opens Up Electronics & Firmware for Ember 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou After already making their 3D printing resin open source, followed by the mechanical design of the machine itself, Autodesk has opened up the electronics and firmware for their...
View ArticleExclusive Interview: Prodways Primed to Be Third Industry Leader with...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Increasingly, a number of large, mainstream corporations, like HP and Microsoft, are entering the 3D printing space, potentially overshadowing mainstay industry players and small...
View ArticleORNL Unveils Symbiotic 3D Printed Home & Car
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing is a technology that people are only beginning to understand. And, because of that, its true potential has only begun to be explored. So, when a company like Local...
View ArticleHarnessing the Sun & Wind to 3D Print Habitats on Mars
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing offers great potential for construction in space, as printers on the ISS, asteroids, or even the surface of the Moon could rely on materials from the local...
View ArticleStudent Ambassadors to Bring Universities Aboard 3D Hubs’ 3D Printing Network
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D Hubs Mayors have long served to organize 3D printing events in their local communities, but, now, the world’s largest distributed 3D printing network has launched a new...
View ArticleAutodesk Grabs netfabb Advanced 3D Printing Software
By Michael Molitch-Hou Though Autodesk has released its Ember 3D printer, the company is still, at its heart, a software company. And, as it expands this software in the industrial 3D printing space...
View ArticleXYZprinting Announces da Vinci Pro 3D Printer with 3rd Party Filament Support
By Michael Molitch-Hou Taiwan’s XYZprinting has been growing significantly, particularly in the past year, with their low-cost 3D printers, followed by news of a food printer and an Intel-powered,...
View ArticleNew Cura LulzBot Edition is Prepped for Over 20 3D Printing Materials
By Michael Molitch-Hou Aleph Objects, in true open source fashion, has taken the popular open source Cura software and modified it for its own use, only to give it right back to the community to do the...
View ArticleZMorph Introduces Multi-Material Mixing with New 3D Printing Toolhead Bundle
By Michael Molitch-Hou As one of the first manufacturers of hybrid fabrication machines for the desktop, ZMorph has impressively developed eleven different toolheads (and one 3D scanner) for its...
View ArticleEngineer Turns 3D Scanner into Entire Ecosystem, Complete with Medical VR App
By Michael Molitch-Hou Michael Balzer is many things. He’s the host of the All Things 3D podcast, covering every 3D technology imaginable. He’s an engineer and developer, working with the Commodore...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: Amenemhat III, Sketchfab’s Most Downloaded Model
By Michael Molitch-Hou This week, Sketchfab celebrated its 400,000th model, a pretty big accomplishment for a 3D model community that was only launched in 2012. The company says it has big plans for...
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