Heidi Milkert
MyMiniFactory Launches Designers Exchange For Those Seeking 3D Printable Designs And Design Work
It seems like all we’ve been hearing lately is how 3D printing and robotics will eventually take away millions of jobs, leaving the owners of high powered computers, and machines the…
Griffin 3D Launches Large Delta 3D Printer and Two Smaller Printers Via Kickstarter
Delta 3D printers are simple, easy to use, and most importantly have the ability to scale up quite well and affordably, as we have seen with the SeeMeCNC giant PartDaddy…
QwikFab Beast Unveiled – Large-format Dual Head 3D Printer with Exceptional Print Speeds
Some may say that the 3D printer market is getting over saturated. After all, it seems like every week there are two to three new companies popping up, with printers…
MakerBot Bundles Their 5th Generation Replicator & Z18 Printers To Offer a $400 Discount
Back in January, when MakerBot unveiled their three new 3D printers at the 2014 CES, there was quite the buzz. All three devices, packed with a slew of new features,…
U.S. Army Researches 3D Printing For Use in Uniforms and Gear
It seems like every week we cover another story related to the United States Army’s current and future applications of 3D printing, both on and off the battlefield. From 3D printed…
Diamond Plastics Unveils New Laser Sintering Polymer Powder, HDPE HX 17
As we have mentioned several times in past stories, the material science behind the resins, filaments, and powders used within the 3D printing process is almost as important to the…
Local Motors to 3D Print Furniture For Their Tech Shop and Labs
You all have probably heard about the Phoenix, AZ based company Local Motors. They plan to 3D print an entire car at this year’s International Manufacturing Technology Show in Chicago….
‘Sporting Forms’ Represent World Cup Matches Via 3D Printed Data Models
This year’s World Cup which was watched by over one billion fans worldwide, was probably also one of the most exciting World Cups we have seen in quite a while. The…
Joyfit, 3D Printed Bra Startup, Seeks Investment Capital
We are seeing entire markets slowly turned upside down, thanks to the customization aspects offered through 3D printing technologies. Traditional manufacturing methods churn out thousands or even millions of the…
3DShapes Aims to be the Google of 3D Printable Models via Comprehensive Image Search
About 15 years ago, a start up company based out of a garage in California, moved into their Palo Alto Headquarters for the first time. That start up was Google,…
Two South African Cancer Patients Receive 3D Printed Titanium Jaw Implants
Advancements in medicine are taking place at rates we have never seen before. Whether it’s IBM’s Watson computer taking advantage of its insanely powerful computational abilities to crunch troves of…
Prodigy Forge 3D, a 3D Printing/Scanning/Design Application, Seeks Funding on Kickstarter
If you were to ask most of the general public what is holding them back from purchasing a 3D printer, a large percentage of them would probably tell you that it’s…
3D Print Your Head On Your Favorite ‘The Walking Dead’ Zombie At Comic-Con 2014
One of the ways in which 3D printing will be forced into the mainstream, is via the integration of the technology with mainstream content providers. We have been seeing several…
Co(de)Factory, 3D Printed Interactive Art, Part of Google’s DevArt Exhibition
Artists have been using 3D printing for years now to allow for the fabrication of ideas which otherwise might have only remained in their minds. 3D printing gives an artist…
Cologne University Students Develop Concept Polyjet 3D Printers for Under 10,000€
There are so many different types of 3D printing technologies on the market. Currently, only fused deposition modeling and stereolithography are used within 3D printers that are targeted toward the consumer…
BMW Introduces Future 3D Printable Concept Vehicle Specifically Designed for the Serengiti
We all dream of a time when a minimal human footprint can be left on the environment, and when driving a vehicle does not take a toll on the vast…
Autodesk and HoneyPoint3D Team to Offer 3D Modeling and Printing Classes
Ever since announcing the Spark 3D printing platform, we have all known that Autodesk has major 3D printing ambitions. Being that they are the leaders within the world of CAD…
FUSE Seeks Indiegogo Funding to Weld Two Spools of 3D Printer Filament Together Mid-print
Don’t we all just love sending a 3D model to our printers before bed, and waking up to the excitement of a finished product in the morning? I have been…
Type A Machines Teams With Autodesk to Introduces Direct 3D Printing via Meshmixer
Although Autodesk has yet to begin selling their own SLA based 3D printers, which they unveiled earlier this year, that doesn’t mean that they are not already seriously competing for…
Australian Army Insider Believes 3D Printing Will Change War as we Know it
We already know that the various branches of the United States Military have been using, and looking into further uses of 3D printing for some time now. Although they don’t…
Chinese 3D Printer Allows You to 3D Print a Human Sized 1:1 Wax Replica of Yourself
We have covered several companies which have been offering services where they 3D print small figures in the likeness of people, which are modeled after 3D scans, or even pictures…
New Lewihe 3D Printer Unveiled – Prints FILAFLEX Filament at 150mm/s
It really is interesting to watch new 3D printers come to market. While many printers are almost identical to others, being copies of those which seem to already be well positioned…
3D Printed Ankle Replacement Surgery a Success for Texas Woman
Update July 8th: Stephen Driscoll, Global Marketing Manager of Wright Medical Technology Inc. has clarified this article for us stating that, “The technology we utilize called PROPHECY® INBONE® is the first…
Quantum Materials Corporation Secures Technology to 3D Print Quantum Dots for Anti-Counterfeiting
Quantum mechanics, it’s certainly an intriguing and almost spooky field, but over the next decade or two we will see a major shift in the understanding and utilization of the…
