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While 3D printing is great for building some really large things, it’s also ideal when you need to create small things, like toys. A new application, called Little You, lets…

3Dsimo is a company based in Prague, in the heart of Europe. It’s a manufacturer of multi-functional tools for makers and they have launched a website with a new design….

It’s always a struggle around birthdays and holidays to figure out what the kids should give friends and family. Generally, we resort to handmade items; I have a couple of…

Everyone seems to agree that it’s important for children to start learning about 3D printing as early as possible. Thanks to educational outreach programs, grants and donations from several 3D…

Baltimore is not an easy place to grow up, by a long shot. But you wouldn’t know that from hearing about Jacob Legette, a 9-year-old West Baltimore resident, who recently got…

The 3Doodler is one of the most fascinating 3D printing tools, in my eyes, as it is so portable, affordable, and allows you to draw in the air. As I’ve…

I was a creative child. I made sure my art supplies were well stocked at all times with crayons, markers, multiple types of paint, and, of course, Play-Doh and Sculpey. My…

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying it: Valentine’s Day is coming up. With just a few more weeks to go before the annual love-fest sends Cupid on his dizzying…

When I was a kid, we were all entranced, cooking, rolling, and slicing up a storm, experimenting with our EZ Bake ovens, and one motorized PlayDoh contraption after another. The…

The future of 3D printing lies in the hands of our youth. It will be today’s school-aged children who grow up understanding the concepts behind 3D modeling and 3D printing…

Jason Dallam fell in love with the magic of 3D printing when he was in his final year of undergraduate studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. During that…

We’ve seen 3D printing go to the stars and back, more or less literally. With all the expanding uses in high-tech industries like aerospace and semiconductors, we also need to…

3D printing is already a lot of fun, but there’s nothing like cutting loose to play. CGTrader, the online community and marketplace for 3D graphics and 3D printing specialists, is…

Everywhere you look there seems to be new companies, applications, and initiatives launching to integrate 3D printing into our children’s educational toolbox. Whether it’s expensive large-scale additive manufacturing machines entering…

The makers are getting younger and younger, thanks to Ingocraft, with the introduction of the first 3D printed construction set that contains fun, interactive parts and tools geared toward the tykes in our…

3D Printing is doing a lot of good for a lot of people, thanks in part to an initiative that has really begun to gain steam. ‘Enabling The Future‘ is…

Lego has been one of those companies which has been able to grow despite technological changes, which have forced them to often rearrange their entire business model to some degree….

Just last week we learned that Hasbro had teamed up with 3D systems, in order to bring 3D printing to kids. This week at the Toy Fair in New York,…