Article Series
Implementing Additive Advantages: What Parts Should I 3D Print?
When people are developing new 3D printing applications, they often look for an advantage that additive has over conventional parts. We’re almost always more expensive than conventional manufacturing, and we’re…
3D Printing for Preppers: An Overview of Disaster 3D Printing
While disaster has not yet befallen my humble family, there is no shortage of emergencies globally and the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated just how useful even desktop 3D printing can…
3D Printing A Meatless World: Ersatz in 3D Printed Food
3D printing food is seen as a sideshow by most in our industry. When we have dug deep into food 3D printing or looked at 3D printed salmon, 3D printed…
3D Printing Chemistry 101: The Molecular Makeup of PAEK, PEKK and PEEK Plastic
If you’re anything like this author, you got a C- in high school chemistry and never looked back. With a newfound interest in the topic, I’m hoping to revisit the…
Startup Accelerator: Volumetric Aims to Be the Tissue Bioprinting Farm of the Future
Startup Accelerator is an article series with a focus on new and exciting companies in the 3D printing space, in which 3DPrint.com speaks to startup leadership about their unique technologies…
Electronics 3D Printing Part Three: Inkjet 3D Printing
In our previous articles in this series, we discussed the history leading up to the development of electronics 3D printing, as well as one of the two dominant methods for…
Electronics 3D Printing, Part One: History of Electronics 3D Printing
Perhaps the holiest of holy grails for the additive manufacturing (AM) industry is the fabrication of complete, functional goods within a single print operation. Rather than produce individual parts that…
Electronics 3D Printing, Part Two: Direct Writing
As we already began to discuss in part one of this series, there are already a handful of companies that offer electronics 3D printing platforms and services. Perhaps the most…
3D Printing and Mass Customization, Hand in Glove Part V
We know that we are using far too many materials in a quest for consumption, could recycle them and could use these recycled goods in high valued materials but why…
3D Printing Metamaterials, Part One
One of the most fascinating innovations achieved with 3D printing is naked to the human eye. That’s because it involves changing the physical properties of an object through changes in…
3D Printing and Mass Customization, Hand in Glove Part IV
Earlier in this series, we’ve discussed how we’re drunk on consumption, how we use up too much material, and that recycling has some constraints. Now we’ll look at how creating…
3D Printing and Mass Customization, Hand in Glove Part III
As discussed in the first and second installments of this series, we are drifting into a consumption-driven stupor and self-medicating our way through lives that, if we live in OECD…
3D Printing and Mass Customization, Hand in Glove Part II
In the first article in this series, I laid out a consumer consumption-driven world where our needs are never quite met by things. Our needs are now mistranslated into a…
Carbon Fiber 3D Printing, Part Eight: Recycling Carbon Fiber
Now that we’ve covered the roots and present state of carbon fiber 3D printing, including current research, we should take a look at where carbon fiber goes to die—or, to…
Carbon Fiber 3D Printing, Part Seven: R&D
So far in our series on 3D printing carbon fiber and other reinforcement materials, we’ve discussed much about the present state of the technology, including large-scale composite deposition and some of…
The Maker Movement Unmade? Part 7: Make: Community Responds
To conclude our series on the transformation of the maker movement, we’re going full circle to the place that inspired this series in the first place: Make: Community (previously known…
The State of 3D Printing in Industrial Goods, Part Five
After exploring the end users, manufacturers and service bureaus involved in the 3D printing of parts for general industrial applications, we’ll be taking a look at the metal materials that…
The State of 3D Printing in Industrial Goods, Part Four
In the previous installment in our series on the use of 3D printing in the industrial goods sector, we discussed some general trends, as well as the key manufacturers of…
The State of 3D Printing in Industrial Goods, Part Three
After exploring the users of 3D printing in the industrial goods segment, as well as service bureaus that are producing some of those goods, we’ll now be taking a look…
The State of 3D Printing in Industrial Goods, Part Two
In the last part of this series, we discussed a variety of general industrial product manufacturers that have begun to adopt 3D printing along the road from prototyping to end…
The State of 3D Printing in Industrial Goods, Part One
As we have explored some niche industrial sectors, such as agricultural and heavy equipment manufacturers, we’ve learned that, while most of the leading companies in the sector use 3D printing…
The Maker Movement Unmade? Part 6: The Community Responds, Continued
In our last installment, we began relaying comments from the maker community, including prominent RepRappers and Adafruit, about the status of the maker movement. In this article, we’ll continue the…
The Maker Movement Unmade? Part 5: The Community Responds
With this series, we’ve explored the changes that have occurred within the maker movement with the thesis that it seems to have fallen apart. Based on community feedback and some…
Hybrid 3D Printing, Part 1: Introduction
Born out of the rise of the first computer systems at the end of World War Two, computer numerical control (CNC) machining has become a crucial tool in the world…
