3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — April 18, 2015
There are lots of 3D printed items in this week’s stories we didn’t cover, including keycaps from Adafruit, an ecological lampshade, customized shoe insoles, and a Saudi-designed airplane seat. Shanghai-based…
3D Systems Will Not Be 3D Printing Google’s Project Ara Smartphone Modules, At Least Not for Now
Late last year it was reported that Google would be working closely with 3D Systems in order to print out the modules for their upcoming Project Ara smartphone. For those…
Ex-Google Employees Form SinterIt, Looking to Bring a $5,000 SLS 3D Printer to Market in 2015
Just yesterday, we reported on the Ester 3D Printer, a selective laser sintering (SLS) machine which is slated to hit crowdfunding site, Indiegogo as soon as today. The campaign will sell developer…
Town History in 3D: Vermont Students 3D Print Historical Buildings for High School Challenge
3D printing has raised the bar for many processes — and that includes the world of competition — especially for students. Coordinating a truly comprehensive statewide high school competition, several…
Artist Oliver Laric Truly ‘Shares’ his Lincoln 3D Scans from Usher Gallery Exhibit
Do we ever really own anything when it comes to art, images, video? We know Google never forgets, but perhaps we can build upon some of its current memories, making…
3DShapes Aims to be the Google of 3D Printable Models via Comprehensive Image Search
About 15 years ago, a start up company based out of a garage in California, moved into their Palo Alto Headquarters for the first time. That start up was Google,…
Future Business Models Within The Consumer 3D Printer Market
The growth of the 3D printing space has been very impressive over the last 18 months. There has been an explosion of interest coming from just about every direction. Consumers…
Shapeways Teams with Google to Allow Girls to Design and 3D Print Bracelets for Free
When most people think of computer programmers, they probably picture a bearded young man with nerdy glasses sitting at a desk wearing a ‘Super Mario Brothers’ t-shirt. At least that’s…
3D Systems’ Revolutionary Mass Manufacturing 3D Printing System is on its Way
Earlier this week we published a very interesting article about the intentions of Google and 3D Systems to print “millions, and hopefully billions” of smartphone modules for Google’s Project Ara. Project…
