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The Diamond Project

This is an article that is briefly highlighting an idea that has some potential but it needs some guidance from seasoned business professionals.

Interview with Len Wanger of Deer Valley Ventures

This is an interview with Len Wagner, the Chief Technology Manager of Impossible Objects. Len has great insight into the world of technology as well as finance and gives some good thoughts on the future of the additive industry.

Collaborative Makerspace Network NextFab is Celebrating Ten Years of Business in Philadelphia

Collaborative Philadelphia-based workspace NextFab isn’t just made up of one location, but is actually a regional network of makerspaces and business incubators, where artisans, hardware entrepreneurs, and makers can feel…

Public FabLab with 3D Printing Center of Excellence Inaugurated in Jordan

FabLabs are small workshops where members can go to work on digital fabrication projects, taking advantage of the space’s technology, which often includes 3D printers and CNC machines, among others….

3D Printing at Dutch Design Week: The Klokgebouw

During Dutch Design Week, the city of Eindhoven becomes a hub for design. Over a quarter of a million people attend and there are over 100 venues and 2500 participating…

We Need To Talk About Fablabs

Fablabs are wonderful things. Places to congregate, learn and experience, they’re a haven for makers. For many, the fablab was the first place where you saw a 3D printer and…

The Refabricator Will Be Recycling Plastic and 3D Printing Onboard the ISS Next Year

In 2015, NASA awarded Washington-based technology firm Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to continue developing its Positrusion Recycler, which recycles plastic waste into 3D…

Dassault Systèmes and the Importance of Relationships and Integration in 3D Printing

In Waltham, Massachusetts, Dassault Systèmes‘ North American headquarters houses a 3DEXPERIENCE Lab filled with an integrated ecosystem of advanced technologies. The 3,100-square-foot fablab was announced this year at SOLIDWORKS World and…

Full STEAM Ahead in Russia as FabLab Polytech Scientists Create 3D Printing DFKits for Schoolchildren

3D printing is a technology most adults are mesmerized and awed by. Many children today, though, already take it for granted as an accepted process for creating things. Both its…

Royal Rulers of Jordan Are Invested in 3D Printing and Modern Technologies

Most of the time, when we’re discussing a country’s 3D printing plan that’s completely endorsed and supported by the ruler of the country, we’re talking about the UAE city-state of…

3D Printing in the Military

3D printing has many military applications. Militaries around the world have been working on developing 3D printing technologies, using 3D printing for prototypes, developing their own fablabs and using the…

German RepRap Reseller 3DZ Provides Italian Footwear Polytechnic School with X400 PRO V3 3D Printer

The German RepRap industrial-grade X400 3D printer has been used to develop all sorts of products, from a helicopter windshield wiper system to spare parts for lifting platforms, and even breast prostheses….

A 20th Century Bullring Reimagined as a 21st Century Drone Station

Bullfights arouse strong feelings on both sides. Their aficionados see them as a place of near reverence, where animal and man engage in an athletic dance summoning the shadows of…

Team of Surgeons and Engineers Create FabLab, Accelerate Development of 3D Printing Technology in Madrid Hospital

The Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón in Madrid is known for being an excellent teaching and research hospital in addition to the great care it provides its patients. It’s also a…

EngiMake’s Fully Customizable, 3D Printable QuadBot Hits Kickstarter

C-3PO, WALL-E, Robbie, Bishop, the T-800…there are so many robots out there, and everyone has their favorite. Personally, I’m a big fan of R2-D2. But he may have just been dethroned,…

Active Duty Navy Service Members Launch GoFundMe Campaign to 3D Print Items for Veterans

Four active duty Navy service members want to make a difference with 3D printing, and they need your help to take it even further. They work to train sailors on 3D…

Autodesk Announces More Free 3D Design Software for Fab Labs

Fab Labs are one of the more wonderful things to have arisen in the early part of the 21st century. Fully equipped spaces where makers, tinkerers and inventors can come explore,…

Home Furnishings Go Open Source with FABrics Easy to Make Chairs

When something is open source, that means that all of the resources that the creators used are available for anyone else to use, either for their own projects or to…

Gilles Azzaro’s Latest 3D Printed Sound Sculpture Honors FabLabs Everywhere

With some artists, you have to look hard to find the real meaning in their work. Gilles Azzaro is not one of those artists. The French voice sculptor, who creates…

Refugee Open Ware Wants MakerSpaces and 3D Printing to Help the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Regardless of the political rhetoric and bickering over how to respond to it, there is an undeniable crisis in Syria that only seems to be getting worse. As the civil…

Jurassic Park 3D Printed Chess Set Pits T-Rex Against Stegosaurus

The popularization of 3D printing has led to the development of a vast number of chess sets with all sorts of figures from the abstract to the adorable. Recently, Guilhem Cano contributed…

Sharebot NG 3D Printers Now in 32 MediaWorld Stores, Weekend Kickoff with Demos & Displays

3D printing isn’t just thriving in Italy–the marketplace is on fire, with Sharebot gaining in momentum continually. As they continue to work with Esprinet, the partnership looks to be quite…

FabLab San Diego & XYZprinting to Offer Historical 3D Printing Workshop with 1:1 Student-to-Printer Ratio

While it’s exciting to read about all the innovations and designs being sprung forth into the 3D printing world by so many new and creative makers, perhaps you have some…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — March 14, 2015

This week brings us some exciting news in 3D software, hardware, materials, designs, and printed objects. We have a printed melodica, an improved quadcopter design, a printed classic zoetrope animation…