Apple Files Patent Application for Full-Color 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Apple is a glowing, mysterious box in the world of tech and, whenever they file a patent application, people take notice. This is true for that time they filed a patent...
View Article3D Systems Confirms Closure of Andover Facility & Layoffs
By Michael Molitch-Hou After internal reports that 3D Systems would be closing down its Andover, Massachusetts facility, The Boston Globe has come across a federal filing that the company made...
View ArticleLLNL Researchers 3D Print Blood Vessels for Brain-on-a-Chip Platform
By Michael Molitch-Hou Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is involved in some pretty exciting research, including, but not limited to, 3D printing graphene and 3D printing metamaterials with unique...
View ArticleVirtual Reality Summit Added to Inside 3D Printing & RoboUniverse
By Michael Molitch-Hou After already tackling the world of 3D printing, proliferating its Inside 3D Printing conferences worldwide, MecklerMedia Corporation has expanded to the worlds of robotics and...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: Chewbacca
By Michael Molitch-Hou A little birdie told that there’s a new Star Wars flick coming out and that they even got Harrison Ford back to play the titular role of Chewbacca. I know that most of that...
View ArticleMoog Buys Majority Stake in North America’s Largest Metal 3D Printing Service
By Michael Molitch-Hou Aerospace and defense company Moog Inc., not to be confused with Moog Music, has decided to expand its focus from traditional manufacturing of military and industrial control...
View ArticleAirbus Enlists Autodesk to Design Mold-Inspired, 3D Printed Aircraft Partition
By Michael Molitch-Hou A few years back, when Airbus put out its video detailing a concept for a 3D printed airliner, it seemed pretty outlandish. Since then, both the industry as a whole and Airbus...
View Articlebq Releases Open Source Witbox 2 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou After already establishing the Witbox as a reliable and affordable 3D printer, Spanish electronics company bq has now upgraded their flagship printer to the Witbox 2. As always,...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: A 3D Printed Car
By Michael Molitch-Hou Having received all of the necessary feedback from the beta tester community, Sketchfab announced this week that it would be rolling out its amazing animation feature to every...
View ArticleJohn Hornick’s “3D Printing Will Rock the World” Rocks
By Michael Molitch-Hou Want to know how, in specific detail, 3D printing will rock the world? Well, then, IP lawyer and 3D printing expert John Hornick has the book for you! I had the pleasure of...
View Article3D Hubs HD Unlocks PolyJet in 350+ Locations Worldwide
By Michael Molitch-Hou As 3D Hubs expands its nearly 25k-strong distributed manufacturing network into the realm of industrial 3D printing with 3D Hubs HD, the company has begun adding more...
View ArticleEOS Founder Funds Online 3D Printing Platform
By Michael Molitch-Hou As the world of SLS receives a significant boost from the expiration of key patents, founder of EOS Dr. Hans J. Langer has begun investing in companies that may see the German...
View ArticleLumi Industries Transforms 3D Printing Altogether
By Michael Molitch-Hou While it may have seemed like vaporware when it first launched, the $400 LumiFold DLP 3D printer turned out to be so real that Lumi Industries has since launched two more...
View ArticleGlass Robotics Lab 3D Prints Glass with Robots
By Michael Molitch-Hou This year, one of 3DPI’s most read articles has been the story of a new glass 3D printing process from Neri Oxman’s Mediated Matter Group at MIT. As researchers and businesses...
View ArticleThe Lunavast CrafteHbot Brings Color to FDM 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou The world of full-color FDM is an interesting one, with numerous companies working to establish the best method for turning the low-cost, but capable technology into a full-color...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: Yoda
By Michael Molitch-Hou There’s a movie coming out. Not sure what it’s about, but people are pretty stoked for some reason. I think it’s about Martians. Anyway, here’s a little green man from that...
View ArticleMost Read Articles from Last Week – December 20th
By Michael Molitch-Hou Free 3D Printable of the Week: A 3D Printed Car Having received all of the necessary feedback from the beta tester community, Sketchfab announced this week that it would be...
View ArticleA Smartphone 3D Printer & Why You Might Move to Taiwan (Part 1)
By Michael Molitch-Hou I’d never been to Taiwan, but my mother lived here for one year exactly 50 years ago. There, she would teach English at a business school in Taichung and meet her first husband,...
View ArticleFull-Color 3D Printing & Why You Might Move to Taiwan (Part 2)
By Michael Molitch-Hou We still hadn’t made it to Taichung, where my mom ended up teaching English to Taiwanese business students, but we’d already gotten a glimpse of the color that Taiwan had to...
View ArticleMedical 3D Printing & Why You Might Move to Taiwan (Part 3)
By Michael Molitch-Hou As a small nation, Taiwan may not be able to pack its borders with a vast number of 3D printing companies, the way the US can, but the businesses focused on this technology are...
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