Mitch Hensley
GE Partners with MakerBot in Attempt to Crowd-Source Future Smart Appliances
Back in March, General Electric and Local Motors announced a new crowd-sourcing platform, called FirstBuild, which was created in order to utilize the talents of designers, makers, engineers and students around…
3D Printing Marketplace Threeding Launches Their Android App
When it comes to 3D printing marketplaces where people can buy and sell designs that are printable on at-home 3D printers, there have been a lot of new sites popping…
3D Printer Company Tinkerine Launches Their Own Line of Unique Colored Biodegradable PLA Filament
Filament is to 3D printers, as toner is to desktop 2D printers. Unfortunately, unlike your 2D printer, most FDM based 3D printers, are not capable of mixing and matching colors…
3D Metal Printer Sales on The Rise, But Still a Long Way From Becoming Mainstream
Sometimes sales numbers can be deceiving, especially when looking at percentages. In the latest press release by Wohlers Associates, they discuss the growth of 3D metal printers. These are mostly…
MyMiniFactory Launches ‘1st Birthday Design Competition’ — Win a Solidoodle 4 3D Printer
Design contests and 3D printing seem to go hand in hand. If you are a designer, over the past several months you have had a pretty good chance of using…
Super Precise Kudo3D Titan 1 SLA 3D Printer Hits Kickstarter on May 27 Starting at $1899
Kickstarter has seen its fair share of 3D printers over the past year, and we are sure to see many more before this year is over. One of the latest…
MonoPrice Introduces Their Affordable Dual Extrusion 3D Printer
As competition heats up within the 3D printer market, manufacturers are finding themselves in a situation where they need to offer additional features in order to move merchandise off shelves. Whether…
3D Systems Partners With ScanSource to Expand Their Distribution Footprint
One sure sign that the 3D printing market is heating up, is the fact that new major distributors are seemingly jumping on board, almost on a daily basis. Whenever a…
The Perfect 3D Printed Mother’s Day Gifts
Tomorrow is Mother’s Day, and that means one thing, spending time and showing affection towards the woman who brought you into this world. What else can show how much you…
General Electric Opening $200 Million 3D Printing Facility in India
We all know that manufacturing via 3D printing is certainly the future, but that future may be happening faster than many would have ever imagined. As competition for lighter, cheaper,…
You Can Now 3D Print Your Own 79 Piece T-Rex Skeleton & Remix it For a Chance to Win Prizes
Imagine owning your own miniature Tyrannosaurus Rex. Well now you can, thanks in part to MakerBot, and their ever growing Digital Store. Just released earlier today was a complete replica…
Celebrate Mother’s Day by 3D Printing Your Own Custom Flowers – Thanks to MakerBot’s Digital Store
Are you still trying to figure out what you can get for your mom for Mothers Day? If you have a 3D printer, MakerBot may just have a solution for…
Got Bitcoin? You Can Purchase a 3D Printer Or Filament for 5% Off
Bitcoin has had its ups and downs, over the past year or so. It has seen its price go from $90 all the way up to over $1200, before settling…
MakerBot Replicators: Now available in all Microsoft Retail Stores
MakerBot has announced today, that all of the Microsoft stores in the United States and Canada are now selling their line of Replicator 3D printers. MakeBot and Microsoft have had…
Giant 3D Printer That Prints Entire Frames of Other 3D Printers is Created
The 3D printing industry is filled with crazy, yet innovative and groundbreaking ideas. Each day we see something new and exciting, and that’s why I thoroughly enjoy writing about the…
Disney Researchers Use 3D Printing to Create Electrostatic Speakers In Any Shape Desired
We have seen a few iterations of 3D printed speakers in the last year or so, but nothing compares to the technology being developed by scientists at Disney Research, in…
AutoDesk 123D Design V1.4 Now Available
Just as important to the 3D printing community as the printers themselves, is the software people use to create their models with. Within just a couple of years we have…
MagicBox KickStarter Project Promises to Polish Your 3D Prints
Last week I hosted a small, yet very successful meetup in my home, in which I invited friends, family, and colleagues over for a few drinks and some snacks. The…
Surgeons 3D Print a Cancerous Kidney Model To Simulate Surgery
Every day it seems as if there is another amazing use for 3D printing, which emerges within the medical community. Today we hear about a 3D printed kidney. No, scientists…
Brightwake’s Hemosep Blood Collection Device Produced With the Help of Stratasys 3D Printers
Every year thousands of people die on the operating table from the loss of blood. These people, who have certain religious beliefs which prevent them from have having other people’s…
Tattoo Robot Created From Hacked Makerbot 3D Printer
The tattoo business is worth billions of dollars a year in the United States alone, and is actually growing as we speak. Tattoo artists are often paid big bucks to…
UK Prime Minister Gives Israeli President a 3D Printed Gift
When Stratasys unveiled their new Objet500 Connex Multi-material 3D Printer a few months back, they could have never imagined one of these machines being used to create a gift ,…
da Vinci 1.0 3D Printer Now Available in United States
A few weeks ago XYZPrinting unveiled the da Vinci 2.0 3D printer at a price tag of $649. That printer will be available in Europe starting next month. All that…
Ohio High School Students 3D Bioprint Bacteria
After several years of 3D bioprinting being covered by the media, it’s quite difficult to be too surprised by new accomplishments in this quickly expanding field, but this story may…
