Model’s 3D Printed Bionic Arm Becomes Designer Accessory at NYFW
By Michael Molitch-Hou Limbitless Solutions has, up until now, been focused on 3D printing bionic arms for kids who, because they are constantly growing, benefit from a low-cost solution that can grow...
View ArticleFree 3D Printable of the Week: 3D Printable RPG Ship
By Michael Molitch-Hou To coincide with Tyler’s story about an impressive Kickstarter for 3D printable scenery for your tabletop gaming, this week’s free 3D printable model is a 3D printable ship from...
View ArticleNano Dimension Approved for Listing on NASDAQ
By Michael Molitch-Hou There’s a new 3D printing company on the stock market, only this time, we’re not talking about plastics or metals. This is electronics 3D printing, which, if it fulfills its...
View ArticleCzech Pilot Launches Library for 3D Printed R/C Airplanes
By Michael Molitch-Hou One niche market that has been heavily affected by the advent of low-cost desktop 3D printing is that of hobbyist modeling. A natural fit for hobbyists, 3D printing gives model...
View ArticleY Soft Launches YSoft Labs for 3D Printing R&D
By Michael Molitch-Hou Czech printing solutions company Y Soft has found some success in the world of 3D printing with its be3D line of 3D printers, one of which 3DPI had the opportunity to review...
View ArticleIBM Watson to Power Real VR Version of Sword Art Online
By Michael Molitch-Hou What if your favorite anime about a massive online VR game became an actual massive online VR game? Then I would guess your favorite anime to be Sword Art Online because IBM has...
View ArticleMore than Just a Dildo Generator, a Boutique for Tailored Toys
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing and sex toys go hand in hand, or hand in orifice. With the ability to fabricate sex toys at home, users can avoid shopping for such intimate items in public, but,...
View ArticleUltimaker & U of I Launch Online Courses for 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou As 3D printing becomes an increasingly popular technology, the ability to use that technology will have to be taught to learners worldwide. And, now, Ultimaker, University of...
View Article3D Printed Drone Accessories See Parrot “GoDigical” with MyMiniFactory
By Michael Molitch-Hou Well, the entries for MyMiniFactory’s contest for 3D printable drone accessories are now in. That means that voting has begun so that you can design which of these accessories...
View ArticleNew Reflective Filament Shines Light on Kai Parthy’s 3D Printing Brilliance...
By Michael Molitch-Hou Engineer Kai Parthy is hugely responsible for the boom in 3D printing filaments we’ve been experiencing over the past few years. With the 2012 invention of Laywoo-D3, a...
View ArticleResearchers 3D Print Large-Scale Factory for Nano-Scale Particles
By Michael Molitch-Hou With the power to use unique materials for specialty applications, nanoparticles open up entirely new physical properties for the objects around us. In 3D printing, we’ve often...
View ArticleNew Hyproline System Capable of High-Speed Mass Customization of Metal 3D...
By Michael Molitch-Hou At the end of last year, Davide Sher predicted that 2016 would see metal 3D printing move from a technology capable of producing small batches to a fully-automated method for...
View Article3D Scanned Nefertiti: Real, Fake, or Real Fake?
By Michael Molitch-Hou This week, you may have heard about two daring artists, Nikolai Nelles and Nora Al-Badri, that walked into the Neues Museum in Berlin with a Kinect and 3D scanned the famous bust...
View ArticleK State Team 3D Prints Device for Anemia Detection in Developing World
By Michael Molitch-Hou As Prof. Joshua Pearce has advocated in interviews, books, and journal articles, 3D printing has the potential to revolutionize the modern laboratory by dropping costs...
View ArticleLatest Atlas Robot Flashes 3D Printed Bits in Public
By Michael Molitch-Hou Last August, we reported news that everyone’s favorite creepy humanoid, the Atlas robot from Google-acquired Boston Dynamics, would feature 3D printed parts in future iterations....
View ArticleMyMiniFactory Responds to Sad Face with Happy “Labeling-as-a-Service” for 3D...
By Michael Molitch-Hou If you read Tyler’s coverage of the Sad Face controversy, you’ll see that there is a lot of great conversation taking place in the comments of both articles. By uploading your 3D...
View ArticleImpossible Objects Reveals CBAM Carbon Fiber Composite 3D Printing
By Michael Molitch-Hou While MarkForged broke new ground with the first 3D printer capable of fabricating composite materials, allowing users to reinforce nylon parts with carbon fiber to produce new...
View ArticleNervous System’s Latest 4D Printed Dress Twirls into the Museum of Fine Arts
By Michael Molitch-Hou 3D printing design studio Nervous System made an important breakthrough in 4D printing in 2014 when they revealed the Kinematics Dress, subsequently purchased by MoMa in New...
View ArticleGizmo 3D Takes Ultra-Fast Continuous 3D Printing Public via Indiegogo
By Michael Molitch-Hou Potentially one of the fastest 3D printers yet announced has just hit Indiegogo today and, given the hype leading up to its release, I expect the campaign to succeed quite...
View ArticleCarbon 3D Printing Hits the Public via Four Service Bureaus
By Michael Molitch-Hou Since it was unveiled at TED one year ago, the world has been awaiting the release of CLIP 3D printing technology from Carbon in Silicon Valley. In the mean time, the firm has...
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