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Honda Shows Off 3D Printed Electric Car, Customized in Both Appearance and Function

There are a lot of automotive companies working on 3D printed cars and auto components right now, but one of the most creative has been Honda. They’ve revealed their visions…

3D Design Challenge: Rinkak and Unitcom Invite You to Help Customize the Level Infinity Gaming PC

Something about 3D printing just screams “design competition!” We see new 3D printing and design contests every few days, it seems, from a multitude of organizations eager to attract publicity and…

Microsoft Japan Uses 3D Printing and Minecraft to Teach Students Basic Coding

There has recently been a movement to bring more STEM education into the classroom from educators and technology advocates all over the world. The reality is that the future of…

Rinkak Teams with Square Enix to 3D Print Dragon Quest Avatars

Japanese 3D printing solutions provider Kabuku is launching a new in-game 3D printing API called Rinkak 3D Avatar Printing Solution. The new in-app 3D printing service allows mobile game developers…

Kabuku Releases Rinkak 3D Printing MMS Quotation, Makes Life Easier for Service Bureaus

An escalating effect has taken place in the world of 3D printing, once an obscure technology known to only to its original creators and a select number of engineers. Now,…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — December 12

This week’s news includes new investments, contracts, and acquisitions on the business side of 3D printing technology. Some serious money (€700,000) is now flowing toward Germany-based 3D printing company trinckle after completing a recent…

Sensible & Lovely! Japanese Designer Uses 3D Scanning, Printing & Auxetics to Create Truly Wearable Apparel

We’ve been telling you about 3D scanning via Artec 3D’s hardware and software for quite some time now, along with tools like Microsoft’s Kinect, popular in areas such as full…

Hold a 3D Printed Historical Japanese Battle in the Palm of your Hand

With historical records of major military battles dating back to Japan’s early Jomon Period (10,000–300 BC), the Japanese Archipelago has been home to a rich and complex history of warfare….

The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — September 5

This week’s 3D printing stories include some examples of the cool things you can make if you have access to a 3D printer, like a Transformer birthday cake and a 3D…

Rinkak MMS Ready to Officially Launch 3D Printing Manufacturing Service

When Kabuku Inc. of Tokyo launched a closed beta test of their Rinkak 3D Printing Manufacturing Management Service, the cloud-based business management service, designed to meet the needs of modern…

Rinkak’s 3D Printed Product Marketplace Expands to the US

The ability to 3D print opens up so many doors to traditional product designers. No longer are their ideas limited to the availability of molds for a particular new product, and…

Kabuku and Rinkak Announce 3D Print Manufacturers Partner Program

Kabuku Inc., the Japanese 3D products and services company responsible for Rinkak, has announced the launch of the Rinkak 3D Printing Partner Program. Rinkak is one of the largest 3D…

Kabuku Partners Up With US Factory To Bring Rinkak’s Products to North America Better, Faster

Tokyo-based Kabuku is a Japanese company that manages Rinkak, a 3D printing service we have reported on previously as they were gaining steam earlier this year with a large grant. Rinkak is a progressive 3D…

Kabuku Announces $2 Million in Series A Funding to Further Develop Rinkak, The Shapeways of Japan

Shapeways is probably one of the most interesting, and fastest growing 3D printing ventures out there today. They allow designers to upload their 3D models, and then sell those models…