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I’m Dreaming of a 3D Printed Christmas

The weather outside may be frightful, but your 3D printer is indoors, so take off your scarf and gloves, come inside where it’s warm, and make some fun 3D prints…

3D Printing at Easter: Here Comes Peter Cottontail, Hopping Down the… 3D Printed Trail

The other day, we heard about Belgium-based La Miam Factory, and its 3D printed chocolate Easter confections, and beer bottles, and Easter has been on my brain ever since. There are…

Bre & Co. Hosts Open House and Holiday Sale for Heirloom-Quality 3D Printed Gifts

Recently, I was invited to the open house and holiday sale of Bre. & Co., the newest venture by the former CEO and co-founder of MakerBot, Bre Pettis. The newly-launched…

Bre Pettis Launches New Creative Venture: Bre & Co. Offers 3D Printed Ceramics and More

When Bre Pettis left Stratasys last year, it was with ambitious goals – the creator of MakerBot stated that he intended to “change the world” through 3D printing with the help of…

Get Some 3D You Time for Mother’s Day—It’ll Be Like They Never Left!

Some of us remember life ‘before kids.’ It was full of me time without begging anyone for a pardon or paying a babysitter gargantuan sums just so you could leave…

Have a 3D Printed St. Patrick’s Day with These Downloadable Designs!

Happy St. Patrick’s Day, all! It’s one of my favorite holidays – my giant Irish family always has a giant Irish dinner and to me, it signifies the real start…

Shapeways’ 2015 Gift Guide for the Holidays is Here: Something 3D Printed for Everyone!

It’s that time of year again, everyone. It’s time to make that gift list and start shopping for your loved ones, and your kids’ teachers, and your co-workers, and… You…

Use Your 3D Printer for Easy Customized Iron-On Artwork Projects

It’s right that there’s no end to what you can do with a high-quality 3D printer, and we cover many of these stories here. But have you ever considered using…

Top 3D Printable 3DShare Models This Week: It’s all about the shapes

3D Share has so many available models for downloading that it can be a challenge to weed through them all. This is why we do the service of summarizing the top…

Employee Creates an Amazing 3D Printed Electronic Business Card Holder for Boss

One thing that I absolutely love about the 3D printing space and attending various shows such as CES and Inside 3D Printing Conferences, is the fact that I get to…

Cubify’s Valentine’s Day Gift Guide Helps You Find the Perfect 3D Printed Token of Love

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying it: Valentine’s Day is coming up. With just a few more weeks to go before the annual love-fest sends Cupid on his dizzying…

Twelve Elegant Gifts to 3D Print for the Holidays — from Thingiverse and FirstBuild

It’s a brave and exciting new world we live in, full of innovations we once only dreamt about or saw a glimpse of in science fiction. Today, rather than making…

Target and Shapeways Team Up to Offer Affordable 3D Printed Keepsake Collection For The Holidays

Just in time for the holidays! Target is breaking into the 3D printing market, carving out a place in the Shapeways marketplace. As we all know, the gifts most loved…

The Joy Complex 3D Prints Conductors’ Batons From Beethoven’s Notes

Synesthesia is a rare condition in which the person affected takes in one form of sensory input and ‘reads’ it in another. For example, a synesthete might see colors when…

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…