2d printing
Epson Unveils Industrial Extrusion 3D Printer
A much-anticipated shift is happening in the imaging industry, as 2D printer makers along with camera manufacturers hedge bets at the dawn of the digital era. Among the last hold…
HP and Seiko Epson’s DNA and the Evolution of 2D Printing to 3D Printing
Like individuals, large corporations reflect the positive and negative characteristics of their ancestors. Seiko Epson, the huge Japanese 2D printing company like HP before them has announced they are making a business transformation…
MIT CSAIL’s Interactive Robogami System Makes it Easy to Design and 3D Print Your Own Origami-Inspired Robots
For years, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have been working with 3D printing and robotics, making robots 3D printed in one step and 3D printed…
How Sexy Does 3D Printing Need To Be?
A fast-growing industry is appealing, from a business sense, of course; investors, inventors, and customers alike all flock to get in on the Next Big Thing. With several 3D printing…
IST Austria Researchers Develop CurveUps: Self-Actuating 3D Printed Objects
We’ve heard of 3D printers being used to draw in 2D, but what about taking a 3D model and transforming it into a 2D template? That’s what a group of…
3D Printing Spotlight On: Poppy Lyttle, Former Education Specialist at MakerBot, Educational Advisor for 3DPrint.com’s Design Courses
If you took our month-long, Formlabs-sponsored Beginner Design for 3D Printing course in March, it’s likely that you remember 3D printing educator Poppy Lyttle, the educational advisor for 3DPrint.com’s design courses. The session…
YSoft Unveils eDee 3D Printer & New Release of YSoft SafeQ Platform
I remember when I was in middle school and we received our first computer. Cloistered away in a special room, students were treated to short introductory sessions. I’m not sure…
Give your 3D Printer a Drawing Lesson with this Instructables Project
Instructables contributor Luke Rodley shared a 3D printing project that’s as much a course in 3D design as it is a 3D print job. Rodley’s step-by-step instructions for getting your…
Printder — Amazing New System Promises to Turn Your 2D Printer into a 3D Printer
Those who play video games are familiar with the concept of backward compatibility, hardware or software systems that can successfully use interfaces and data from earlier versions of the system…
Nike Files Patent for Printing onto 3D Objects with Unique 3D Printer
We have known for some time now that Nike has been using 3D printing in the creation of several unique products. They aren’t the only apparel company doing so, and…
3D to 2D: Using a 3D Printer to Draw in 2D
Over the summer, my fiancé and I joined my family on vacation and spent a beautiful day on Mackinac Island, Michigan. While we were there, we had a caricature drawn to…
