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XYZprinting Unveils Three New 3D Printers and a Robot at IFA 2015

Ever since their first Da Vinci 3D printer took home multiple industry prizes, including a CES 2014 Editors’ Choice Award, XYZprinting has continued to pump out new models of their…

XYZPrinting Debuts New Intel RealSense Handheld 3D Scanner at IFA 2015

The ultimate companion for a 3D printer is, naturally, a 3D scanner capable of replicating real world objects quickly and without hassle. Handheld scanners like 3D Systems’ iSense or FuelHD’s…

The FABtotum PRISM Brings Stereolithography to their All in One Personal Fabrication Station

Two years ago a small Italian startup hit the big time when their FABtotum Personal Fabricator took Indiegogo by storm and blew past their original $50,000 goal. By the time…

itSeez3D Ports Their Mobile 3D Scanning App to New Intel RealSense Equipped Devices

Russian app development company itSeez3D announced that they have successfully ported their mobile scanner application to the Intel RealSense platform and will release a new app specifically for devices equipped…

Fuel3D Labs & 3DplusMe Integrate Their Processes For Personalization Platform

Fuel3D Labs and 3DplusMe have extended their SaaS platform to be compatible with Fuel3D image capture technology, and the combined system will be revealed at SIGGRAPH 2015 in Los Angeles….

Apple Issued Patent for 3D Scanning Stylus

In my opinion it’s only a matter of time before tech goliath Apple enters the 3D printing and scanning space. Once this takes place there really is no telling how…

Occipital Raises $13M in Series B Funding to Advance Structure Sensor & ‘Spatial Computing’

3D printing and 3D scanning go hand in hand. While up until recently, 3D scanning technology was either too expensive, or just did not provide for enough quality in order…

RangeVision Smart 3D Scanners Take on Industrial Markets

The ever-expanding range of 3D scanners are a fast becoming a lynch pin of modern 3D technologies as they demonstrate the replication of any object and the efficiency of reverse-engineering…

Matter and Form’s Bevel Clip Coming to Kickstarter Monday

You may remember back about two years ago when a company called Matter and Form Inc. hit Indiegogo with a campaign to raise funding for their new MF 3D scanner….

Dutch Woman Uses 3D Printing to Create Amazing Statues of Actors & Actresses

3D printing can be used for a lot of things, as most of us are quite aware. Each and every day, we come across new exciting uses for the technology,…

EasyArts’ Ares 3D Printer, 3D Scanner, Laser Engraver & CNC Mill Hits Indiegogo for Just $399

One of the common themes that we are starting to see more and more of from the maker community is the release of 3D printers which are capable of more…

German Hardware Hacker Creates Kinect-Based Portable 3D Scanner

Mario Lukas is a German maker, hardware hacker, and tinkerer, and he decided he wanted to build a low-cost, mobile, Raspberry Pi2- and Kinect-based 3D scanner. Kinect is essentially a…

XYZprinting Announces Handheld 3D Scanner With Intel’s RealSense Camera for Just $299

Once 3D printers became more and more affordable, all eyes turned next to the 3D scanner. Just a mere matter of months ago, it would seem, that this particular piece…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — May 23, 2015

This week’s stories we didn’t cover move from small daily details, like 3D printed bowls we can slurp from, all the way to a new industrial-size metal printer from Additive…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — April 11, 2015

This week’s 3D printing stories we didn’t cover run the gamut from quite serious to whimsical, beginning with serious news of an MIT student’s use of 3D printing to document…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — April 5

The stories we didn’t cover this week run the gamut, covering announcements of new 3D scanning techniques based on built-in smartphone sensors, Stratasys’ global expansion efforts, 3D printed concrete art…

Tumaker Launches the Voladora V3 3D Printer With Unique Print Heads & the DigiBuu 3D Scanner

As of late, it seems as though we are literally reporting on new 3D printers being launched on a daily basis. As companies around the world see the potential that…

CyArk 500 Challenge Gains Momentum in Preserving Cultural Heritage with Artec 3D Scanning Technology

Consideration to posterity is a powerful human motivator. It’s not only that we want to give to future generations, it’s that we want to know they remember us and what was also…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — January 31

Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and it’s best you start thinking about what you will give to that special someone this year. This week’s 3D printing news provides some…

FreeLSS Open Source 3D Printable Scanning System Powers DIY Scanners Like the ATLAS 3D

While the 3D printer has garnered an enormous amount of attention, performing new and heroic tasks on almost a daily basis, the 3D scanner has not historically received a proportionate…

ATLAS 3D Scanner Kickstarter Campaign: Software Developer Creates First 3D Printable Laser 3D Scanner

The progress of 3D printing and how it’s beginning to plant itself firmly as an everyday technology in the lives of many is demonstrated in Uriah Liggett’s motivation behind creating…

Bq Unveils Ciclop, the Open Source 3D Printable 3D Scanner at 2015 CES

As I walked around CES this week there was one theme this year that stood out in the 3D printing section of the show: 3D scanning. It seemed like every…

Fuel3D Launches Super Fast 3D Scanner at CES 2015 – Takes 3D Scans in 1/10 of a Second

3D printing by itself can be fun, but unless there is a way in which the user can import or create a model to print, it remains extremely limited. There…

Researchers Combine Robotics & Artec Spider for Unrivaled 3D Scanning of Complex Shapes

As the new year looms and the holiday season comes to a close, we’ve all had our share of wrapping gifts that were complicated in shape, sometimes with numerous angles…