High Speed 3D Printing Startup Receives Investment from Asimov Ventures
By Michael Molitch-Hou While MecklerMedia and the 3D Printing Fund may be no more, Alan and John Meckler are still in the 3D printing business with Asimov Ventures, their venture capital firm focused...
View ArticleKia Concept SUV Features 3D Printed Parts
By Michael Molitch-Hou While auto companies have been implementing 3D printing for prototyping purposes for some time, its use for creating end parts will be increasingly adopted by industries across...
View ArticleSketchfab Adds VR to 3D Model Browsing
By Michael Molitch-Hou Of the companies we cover on a regular basis, Sketchfab has struck me as one of the most forward-thinking. By simply broadening its vast 3D modelling community to every relevant...
View ArticleMetal 3D Printing & Why You Might Move to Taiwan (Part 6)
By Michael Molitch-Hou This is part six in a six-part series covering 3D printing developments in Taiwan. To learn more, read parts one, two, three, four, and five. Photos by Danielle Matich. After...
View ArticleFlashflorge Unveils Three New 3D Printers at CES 2016
By Michael Molitch-Hou In the CES hubbub of last week, it wasn’t always easy to catch the news coming out of the event, which is why we missed the release of three new 3D printers from Chinese...
View ArticleOrganovo’s Samsara to Sell Liver Cells for Bioprinting
By Michael Molitch-Hou As with more traditional 3D printing technologies, an important part of bioprinting is the 3D printing material, meaning that there will be significant business opportunities for...
View ArticleYobi3D Makes Googling 3D Models Even Better
By Michael Molitch-Hou It was more than a year ago that I wrote about Yobi3D, a site striving to be the Google of 3D printable content. By typing in a search term, you could browse the web for 3D...
View ArticleAdobe Fuse Makes 3D Modeling Complex Characters Simple
By Michael Molitch-Hou Adobe has slowly been plugging away at the 3D front to make their brand of easy and powerful tools extend their reach into 3D modeling and 3D printing. This has previously...
View ArticleCaleb Kraft Crafts 3D Printed Foot Controllers for Disabled Xbox One Player
By Michael Molitch-Hou If you follow the 3D printing work of Make:‘s Caleb Kraft, you’ll know that he creates custom gaming controllers for people with disabilities. These have included a unique Xbox...
View ArticleNorthwestern’s Low-Cost Tech Turns Rust into 3D Printed Iron
By Michael Molitch-Hou In order to bring down the cost of metal 3D printing, researchers and industrial R&D divisions are working on new approaches to the technology that forgo lasers and electron...
View ArticleThreeding Brings Greek Artifacts Back from Antiquity for 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou After partnering with Artec 3D in 2014, Threeding.com has used the company’s 3D scanning technology to digital capture hundreds of Ancient Greek artifacts, which are now all...
View ArticleHype Hangover: the Rise & Fall of Avi Reichental (Part 2)
By Michael Molitch-Hou Part of an ongoing series on how the 3D printing hype bubble has affected the lives of the individuals involved. To read the first story in this series, head here. In a previous...
View ArticleA 3D Printed Pigeonstein to Haunt Your Beautiful Dreams
By Michael Molitch-Hou While UK architect William Stanley has recently launched a 3D printed jewelry shop, with which to execute his 3D printable creativity, it may be his 3D printed Skele-structure...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: The Triumphe of the Republic
By Michael Molitch-Hou I thought that, after news of Threeding’s many 3D printable Greek artifacts that I would share a free 3D printable work of art, as the replicas on the Threeding site will most...
View ArticleGoogle to Tackle Mixed Reality with New VR Department
By Michael Molitch-Hou This week, Google announced that it would be opening a new division dedicated to virtual reality computing, which will see the tech giant’s former VP for product management, Clay...
View ArticleInside 3D Printing Singapore Lives on with 3DR Holdings & Rising Media
By Michael Molitch-Hou MecklerMedia may not have made it through the 3D printing hype bubble, but parts of it have survived through 3DR Holdings, LLC and Rising Media, Inc. Just before the New Year,...
View ArticleMost Read 3D Printing Articles – January 16, 2015
By Michael Molitch-Hou A Photo Guide to 3D Printing at CES 2016 This post has been cross-blogged from John’s home site: johnbiehler.com. The Consumer Electronics Show (aka CES 2016) in Las Vegas was...
View ArticleMeet Noah, Kentstrapper’s New 3D Printing Dongle
By Michael Molitch-Hou As the world of desktop 3D printing transitions from those first generation machines, designed to demonstrate low-cost 3D printing as a proof of concept, to second gen systems...
View Article“3D Knitting” Hits Kickstarter with JS Shoes
By Michael Molitch-Hou While mass customization seems to be the future of fashion, 3D printed clothing is still in its infancy. So, the ability to order items personally tailored via 3D scans may seem...
View ArticleWeDesign.Live Launches as First Ever Live, Co-Design 3D Modeling Platform
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last summer, MyMiniFactory began the MP5 Project, an open source endeavor to unite the 3D printing industry under a holistic approach to design, slicing, and printing. And, while...
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