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Robox Now Offering Formfutura’s TitanX 3D Printer Filament
Whenever we hear from CEL Robox, we know it’s going to be an interesting story; the UK-based 3D printer manufacturer has been a fascinating one to follow ever since their…
Diabase Engineering Introduces X60, the Softest 3D Printing Material on the Market
Diabase Engineering is best known for the Flexion Extruder, which has transformed many an average, low-cost 3D printer into a multi-material, industrial-grade machine. One of the key appeals of the…
3D Brooklyn Teams with Better Future Factory to Sell Refil Recycled 3D Printer Filament in the US
For all of the myriad of uses for 3D printing, benefiting vastly different industries, it has been somewhat lacking in one particular area. 3D printing isn’t as sustainable as it could…
Airwolf 3D Continues Innovation Streak with HydroFill Water Soluble Support Material
Airwolf 3D has been on the scene for several years, most recently with their release of a new build plate adhesive. There has been an ongoing struggle to understand the best…
3D-Fuel Turns Trash into Treasure with New Landfillament 3D Printing Filament
We’ve covered many companies that have used their creativity and conscience to reduce not only the waste generated by 3D printing, but plastic waste overall. More and more companies are…
Floreon Announces Competition to 3D Print Spectacles for Footballer Ian Wright
Ian Wright’s football story is one of a boy with humble beginnings making good after a long and difficult struggle. The third son of Jamaican immigrants, he was brought up by…
Pinshape Announces Print to Win Proto-pasta Filament Contest
It was just several months ago when Pinshape announced that they were closing due to lack of finances, only to be rescued in the 11th hour by Formlabs. Since then, the…
Cx5 Sculptable Filament Finding Success on Kickstarter
One of the frustrations of 3D printing are the little errors that crop up during a print. Whether they be drips or stringing, pockmarks or elephant feet, layer shifting or…
OmniDynamics Seeks Funding for Strooder Desktop Filament Maker
One of the most amazing things about 3D printing is that it is a disruptive technology. It is an alternative to mass manufacturing, allowing designers, inventors and makers the opportunity…
FilaBox Subscription Service from ThreeD Materials Automatically Refreshes Your Filament Supply Each Month
For people who 3D print on a regular basis, running out of filament is a frustration that happens all too often. You know what would be great? If there were…
The Virtual Foundry Releases Filamet 3D Printing Filament That Turns FDM 3D Printers into Metal 3D Printers
More industries than ever before are purchasing metal 3D printers and using them to manufacture high-quality prototypes, test parts and end-run parts with geometries that could only be manufactured using a…
3D Printlife ENVIRO Eco-Friendly ABS and PLA-PHA Strike a Chord with Major Resellers
There is a duality in desktop 3D printing: if you want to have an eco-friendly material you need to use PLA, which is fragile and brittle. If you want to…
EUMAKERS Launches Transformable Filament Spools That Turn into 3D Printable Design Products
While the market still needs time to grow, there are companies like filament manufacturer EUMAKERS that have set their sights on widespread consumer adoption of 3D printing and are making…
Spend Those Pennies on 3D Printing! From ABS to Wood–Load Up on One Cent Samples Now at FilamentOne
Most of us think those one cent pieces stacking up in a corner on the bedroom dresser have become useless. We can’t get rid of them, we’re too busy to…
3Dom Releases Entwined: Hemp Filament!
It seems like every day a presidential candidate is declaring that they will make America great again. But what does that really mean? What really made America great? Well, one…
Adam Beane Industries Teases a New 3D Printer Filament You Can Sculpt
I took several ceramics classes in high school and college, and I loved working with clay. It’s such a forgiving medium; mistakes can be easily smoothed over, reformed, and made…
Lessons in 3D Printing from Scott Hanselman: Far More Than “Plastic Pieces of Crap”
It is often appropriate, after the holiday season has wrapped up, to examine all of the stuff with which our lives are filled and try to discover some way to…
Print+ Creates Rocking 3D Print Headphones Kit for Easy DIY
To be involved in making, you don’t have to be the type of person who can build a 3D printer from scratch, recycle milk containers into filament, and wield a…
Making an Amazing Guitar with Polymaker PolyMax Advanced 3D Printing Filament
Several maker musicians have already built themselves some pretty great 3D printed guitars, but any that are truly playable were made using SLS (Selective Laser Sintering) or SLA (Stereolithography) 3D…
Keep the Moisture Away from Your Filament With The Brand New Filabot Filabox
The old saying about being left “high and dry” makes it sound as if that were a bad thing. When we’re talking about 3D printing filament, however, that is just what…
Odin Manufacturing Launches 3D Printer Filament Storage & Dryer Units on Kickstarter
If you were to jot down a list of reasons that a 3D print could fail, that list would include things like cheap filaments, jams in the extruder, a poorly sliced…
Exclusive Interview With Creator of 3D Systems’ New Infinity Rinse-Away Filament, Marty Johnson
Recently we reported on a new 3D printing material released by 3D Systems, called “Infinity Rinse-Away Water-Soluble Support Material” (INF). The material is truly the ultimate time saver when it…
3D Printing Filament Trends & Stats for May 2015
Each and every month, we see more new filaments released by various manufacturers, some of which are more of the same, while others are something completely new to the 3D…
3DXTech Unleashes New High-Modulus Carbon Fiber PETG 3D Printing Filament
Doesn’t it seem as though it was just several months ago that we were limited to 3D printing objects in just two materials–PLA or ABS? It certainly does to me!…
