Polymaker’s PC-Plus 3D Printing Filament Lifts 480 Kg of Concrete
By Michael Molitch-Hou After rebranding and new financing, Chinese filament manufacturer Polymaker has quickly become one of the leading materials providers in the world, releasing new functional and...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: A Voronoi Heart
By Michael Molitch-Hou A perfect gift for lovers of 3D printing, designer Esteban Pacheco has created a heart ornament with the indistinguishable mark of 3D printed design. Pacheco’s heart has that...
View Article3D Print Fail of the Month
By Michael Molitch-Hou You may know it as the ship that “made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs”, but flughafen, on Flickr, knows it as something his printer just couldn’t handle. flughafen posted...
View ArticleMost Read 3D Printing Articles – February 13, 2016
By Michael Molitch-Hou SolidWorks’ Apps for Kids Aim to Get Young Students into 3D Design For quite a while now, SolidWorks has worked hard not only to develop some of the most accessible and widely...
View ArticleMath Artist Rinus Roelofs to Unveil Enormous 3D Printed Sculpture at RapidPro
By Michael Molitch-Hou The RapidPro trade show is about to kick off in the Netherlands next month, which means that there may be some show stopping pieces hitting the floor. One artist known for large,...
View Article€2.5 Million to Fund 3D Printing Long-Lasting, Customizable Batteries
By Michael Molitch-Hou The next phase of 3D printing will likely be a combination of the traditional forms of 3D printing we’ve become familiar with, like extrusion processes, with something that might...
View Article3D Printing Has its Place in Martian Settlements, According to NASA
By Michael Molitch-Hou Is there life on Mars? Outlook uncertain, but there probably will be someday, thanks to future human colonists. If we can get our act together, we may just be able to get to the...
View ArticleBuild Your Own 3D Printed Robotic Hand in Less than an Hour
By Michael Molitch-Hou Open Bionics has been making significant progress in the world of 3D printed prosthetic hands, outfitting young and old alike with their bionic limbs. And, after joining the...
View ArticlePet Pharma Giant Zoetis Implements Broad 3D Printing Ad & Education Campaign
By Michael Molitch-Hou Taking advantage of the hype that has occurred with 3D printing over the past few years, marketing specialists have found new and unique ways of advertising products. Whether it...
View ArticleGaga Tributes Bowie with 3D Printing, Projections, & Robots
By Michael Molitch-Hou My wife and I began the morning by watching one great artist honor another with Lady Gaga’s Grammy tribute to David Bowie. I didn’t know at that time that, to pull off what was a...
View ArticleFree Software Translates 3D Scans into Personal Avatars with Ease
By Michael Molitch-Hou While mixed reality is already impacting the field of medicine, with doctors using patients specific 3D models to create 3D printed implants and surgical models, the next big...
View ArticleUL & EOS Partner for Metal 3D Printing Training
By Michael Molitch-Hou When a newer industry like 3D printing takes off, there is business to be made not just in manufacturing and sales, but in all of the auxiliary fields associated with that...
View Article4D Scanning from TimeSlice Comes Alive on Sketchfab
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D model sharing site Sketchfab is already laying the foundation for a social 3D experience with users sharing 3D scans of their newborns and other personal scans with the...
View ArticleSciaky Announces Closed-Loop Control for Giant Metal 3D Printers
By Michael Molitch-Hou One of the biggest issues in 3D printing is quality control, particularly when it comes to the industrial applications of the technology. Manufacturers are accustomed to...
View ArticleUpdate: Today, Ötzi the Iceman is Reborn with 3D Printing on PBS
By Michael Molitch-Hou Understanding one’s place in the Universe requires an understanding of everything that led up to one’s creation. For this reason, I’m always fascinated by our ancestors from...
View ArticleCTC Electronic Co. Announces Its First Industrial 3D Printer
By Michael Molitch-Hou Zhuhai CTC Electronic Co. has quickly grown from a manufacturer of 2D printers to FDM 3D printers to a producer of a wide variety of 3D printing technologies. With the opening...
View ArticleSee the Continuous Resin Gizmo 3D Printer in Person
By Michael Molitch-Hou Next March, the 3rd to be exact, iMakr will be hosting its inaugural Desktop 3D Printing Show, in which some thirty names in 3D printing and 3D scanning exhibiting at the...
View ArticleImaging Giant Konica Minolta Strikes Deal with ZVerse for 3D Printing Software
By Michael Molitch-Hou South Carolina-based ZVerse has quickly risen in status in the 3D printing industry since we first covered them in 2014. With a robust portfolio of licensed sports memorabilia,...
View ArticleMeta to Take on the HoloLens with Own Version of Augmented Reality
By Michael Molitch-Hou At the TED conference in Vancouver, Canada yesterday, one company dazzled the crowds with a technology that will signals the rise of augmented reality to take place this year....
View ArticleHoloLens Beams NASA Scientist to Mars at TED2016
By Michael Molitch-Hou Just after Meta demoed the latest version of its augmented reality headset, Microsoft was not one to be upstaged. HoloLens developer Alex Kipman took to the floor of the TED2016...
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