Exclusive Interviews

High School Student Builds This Amazing Vulcanus V1 3D Printer

Johannes Rostek is a sixteen-year-old high school student in Germany who plans to continue his education and study electronics or technology, and he’s also a budding 3D printer design engineer….

First-Hand Look at Dayton’s Proto BuildBar

As 3DPrint.com’s resident Ohioan on staff, I was so excited to hear about Proto BuildBar opening in downtown Dayton when we covered the new makerspace back in December. Both because of its…

Interview with Voxel8 Co-Founder Daniel Oliver – Are 3D Printed Batteries & Sensors Next?

At CES 2015, one company within the 3D printing space really stood out. Their name was Voxel8, and what they had come up with had the international media buzzing. Voxel8,…

Clément Moreau, CEO & Co-Founder of Sculpteo, Discusses 3D Printing’s Future and His Vision for the Company

While many analysts believe that 3D printers will eventually be within nearly every home, sort of like a microwave is now, we are not quite there yet. Sales of desktop 3D…

Interview with Zoe Dai – Designer of Incredible 3D Printed High Heel Shoes

3D printing and fashion are beginning to converge as designers around the world are starting to see the potential that the technology provides for making completely custom clothing and accessories which…

Interview with Carbon3D Executive Rob Schoeben — Even Faster 3D Printing on the Way

March was a huge month, not only for the 3D printing industry, but for the entire technology sector in general, as a wave of innovation swept over the already established 3D…

Contour Crafting Inventor Dr. Khoshnevis: Widespread 3D Printed Homes in 5 Years, High-Rises in 10 Years

Exclusive interview with Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis: Contour Crafting machines will be available starting at around $200,000 within a couple of years.  Machine is now capable of printing concrete walls, insulation and…

Exclusive Interview with 3D Character Artist Ben De Angelis on 3D Printing’s Future & His Designs

One of the great things about 3D printing is that 3D designers don’t really need to learn an entirely new trade in order to get into the swing of things…

How 3D Printing and FabLabs are Ushering in Changes Within the Brazilian Economy

What do you know about FabLabs? Do you know anything about the stage of 3D printing in the developing countries? South America’s giant, Brazil, is the world’s seventh-largest economy with a…

Interview with MakerBot Europe GM Alexander Hafner on 6th Generation Replicators, Innovation Centers & More

3D printing is becoming a global phenomenon, and manufacturers of 3D printers are beginning to realize this. Back in August of last year, we reported on the launch of MakerBot…

Exclusive Interview With Head of EOS India, Mr. Anand Prakasam

EOS is a leading AM solution provider based in Germany with more than 25 years experience in developing and selling AM systems, software, materials, process and Quality management tools. The…

Exclusive Interview with Solidoodle Founder and CEO, Sam Cervantes About 3D Printing & His Company

When it comes to desktop 3D printers, one of the leading manufacturers of affordable, yet high quality printers is Solidoodle. Recently, the company, run by founder Sam Cervantes, released an…

3D Printing Will Help Bring Us An Actual Hoverboard in 2015 – Interview With Arx Pax CEO Greg Henderson

We are one month into the year 2015, and despite predictions made by writers Bob Gale and Robert Zemeckis in their 1985 Back to the Future we have yet to lay…

A Poetics of Failure: Sophie Kahn Uses 3D Printing to Challenge the Digital Era

In the mid-’90s I attended Philosophy graduate school when something called “deconstruction” was all the rage. In a nutshell, deconstruction criticizes a Western philosophical assumption that the natural and social worlds are objective…

Jenifer 1 & Arthur 1 — 3D Printable Car and Motorcycle Concepts Could Influence Future Design

The automobile industry is in the midst of what may be the biggest shakeup in its 130 year history. Between ride sharing services, the influx of electric vehicles like the…

3D Printed Mini F1 Drivers’ Creator Tells Us About His Design Odyssey, Plans for Future

Formula 1 racing has fans all over the world — including in the Netherlands, where a man named Alex has loved F1 for two decades. His second love is design, and these two…

Exclusive Interview with MakerBot CEO Jenny Lawton on the Future of MakerBot, Next Generation Printer, Smart Extruders, & More

One of the great things about attending a show as large as, and on as large of a stage as, CES is the fact that all of the big players within industries…

A 3D Printed Rifle from Canada the Latest Entry in the High-Tech Gun Collection

“So I decided to 3D print a gun.” And from there, the newest entry into the 3D printed firearm lineup began to take shape. “There’s been a lot of hysteria…

Allan Gabriel, Director of Dykema’s Intellectual Property Department, Speaks 3D Printing

We all know that the technology of 3D printing/additive manufacturing is changing the face of numerous industries, mostly for the better. Whether it’s creating new jobs, producing goods quicker and cheaper,…

Interview with Dennis Martin, Digital Artist Who Contributed to Creation of 3D Printed Obama Bust

I had an opportunity to speak with digital artist Dennis Martin, a member of the Reality Solutions Group at Autodesk that worked with the team creating the 3D printed bust…

Fully 3D Printed Working Engine Runs Completely on Hot and Cold Water — and You Can Print Your Own For Free

3D printing is fascinating, especially to those individuals who have not ever seen the technology in action previously. However, like with all new technology, this fascination subsides as time goes…

CEO of Graphene 3D Lab, Daniel Stolyarov, Discusses Bright Future of Graphene 3D Printing

As material science advances, one of the more exciting developments over the last several years has been that of the utilization of graphene, a super-material which is extremely lightweight, strong,…

3D Printing Teacher of the Year – Exclusive Interview With Philip Cotton

Founder of the 3dfilemarket.com, an online community to download and share 3D printing designs and to promote 3dprinting, Philip Cotton is a teacher consultant for BBC learning who teaches design…

Autodesk CTO Reveals Details of Their Spark 3D Printing Platform & Printer: More coming at Inside 3D Printing Conference

Autodesk CTO Jeff Kowalski tells us why we should be excited about the new Spark platform, hints at wide-scale adoption by some major 3D printing players and foreshadows a brand…