3d printer

Deltaprintr Makes a Splash at Maker Faire with the Delta Go

With all the 3D printer projects on Kickstarter these days touting almost unbelievable features and prices it’s easy to become a little skeptical. When some of those companies take exceedingly…

First Look at the Crystal 3D Printer from Zeus Eye

There are so many new 3D printer startups these days that it’s almost cute when new printers are released using the same old marketing buzzwords. Almost. For a while it…

Creatable D2 Delta 3D Printer Makes Big Debut at Inside 3D Printing Seoul

It used to be a rare thing to see a delta-style 3D printer targeted to the average consumer. The 3D printing space is still ruled by Cartesian printers, those that…

HyVision System’s Cubicon 3D Printer Shines at Inside 3D Printing Seoul

Like other MecklerMedia events, there was a palpable excitement in the exhibitor’s hall at the Inside 3D Printing Conference and Expo Seoul. Squeezing through the bustling crowd, I managed to…

University of Oslo Master’s Student Creates Amazing Open Source 5-Axis 3D Printer

When we think of desktop FDM/FFF 3D printers, we typically picture a gantry style Cartesian-based machine, or a Delta robot style printer. These machines are capable of 3D printing objects based…

Estonian Designer Creates the Trint 3D Printer out of Plywood for Just $200

When it comes to desktop 3D printers, there are a lot of machines on the market today that are built from cheap, flimsy plastics. These machines, although they may look relatively…

Tytan 3D Unveils the GAJA Multitool MAXX — 3D Ceramic Printer, Milling Machine and Much More!

Back in June of last year, we reported on a company called Tytan 3D, and a new Delta-style 3D printer that they were set to release. It promised to be…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — June 6, 2015

This week news covers a broad spectrum that includes thoughts about 3D printing’s role in our future, to new services, hardware, materials, and competitions to win a printer and get your business funded. Also,…

Fisher Delta 3D Printer is Released for Just £199 by RepRapPro

Affordability is what will ultimately lead to mass adoption of 3D printers by small businesses, schools, and individual hobbyists. Over the past year, we have really begun to see prices…

Ragnar Robotics to Release Open Source Educational Deltabot Platform – Details Revealed at RoboUniverse

Last Monday marked the start of the RoboUniverse Conference and Expo at The Javits Center in New York City. Twelve companies vied for a single cash prize, as well as…

Software Architect Creates an Amazing Ultimaker 2 Aluminum Extrusion 3D Printer

When you think about the big names within the desktop 3D printing industry, the two that stick out the most are MakerBot and Ultimaker. While MakerBot originated in the United…

M3D Teams with 3DShare for Unique 3D Printing Design Competition – Giving Away The Micro 3D Printer

Just over a year ago M3D’s ‘The Micro 3D Printer’ was launched.  It was touted as “The First Truly Consumer 3D Printer” and what a success it was, raising more than $3.4 million…

Edge 2.0 3D Printer — 13 Year Old Maker Designs & Builds His Own 3D Printer for Under $200

By the time that I was thirteen, the list of things that I had accomplished was shorter than my attention span. There was the time that I figured out how…

Stratasys Rolls Out New Objet 1000 Plus and XTend 500 Fortus Plus Materials Canister

Stratasys Ltd. just introduced the industrial scale Objet 1000 Plus 3D Production System, and it boasts features like an extra large print size and accelerated speeds for manufacturing applications in…

A PowerPoint 3D Printer: Missouri Teacher is Building a Unique $20 3D Printer with His Students

When it comes to 3D printing within the classroom environment, there are some teachers who welcome it with open arms, while there are others who are deathly afraid of the…

Engineer Creates a Unique 3D Metal Printer for Just $2 — Prints in Gold, Platinum, Iron & More

It isn’t often that you come across new 3D printers that utilize an entirely new concept which hasn’t been seen within this industry as of yet. With today’s technology, we are able…

Vocational Program Integrates 3D Printing to Educate Inmates at the Illinois Youth Center

The United States has one of the highest incarceration rates in the world. A number of dedicated groups around the country are working hard to try and understand how to…

Bling! Bling! The ‘Bling’ 3D Printer is Much More than a Pretty Machine

Technology is what has led us to become the race that we are today: the human race. You know, Homo Sapiens, the species that originated hundreds of thousands of years…

FoxRox Bluetooth Vibration “Speaker” Offers Customizable 3D Printed Cabinet to Enhance Sound

Over the years and with the introduction of the Internet, consumers are more conscious than ever before, so much so that companies like FoxSmart have been able to capitalize on…

Open Source Innovation Brings Foldable 3D Printer TeeBotMax

The world of open source collaboration is continuing to produce a stream of new ideas, all of which will continue to be improved upon, some of them useable now and some…

Make Your Own 3D Printer for Under $60 Using Recycled Electronic Components with Instructables Design

One of the obstacles to jumping headlong into the additive manufacturing milieu for many people is often the expense of the 3D printer itself. Further, for those intrepid, budding engineers,…

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…

Two-thirds of Top 100 Manufacturing Companies Already Use 3D Printing Says PWC Survey

Whether experimenting, prototyping, or producing final products, manufacturers are jumping ever faster into the world of 3D printing.  By 2013, more leading manufacturing companies than not were using 3D printing…