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MyMiniFactory: 3D Printing Trends for July 2017

The 3D printing industry has bloomed into one that generates billions of dollars, and that is only expected to grow–with fierce competition continuing to mount across the globe. Today, you…

3D Printing News Briefs: July 14, 2017

It’s Friday, so we’ll start off today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with something interesting to roll us into the weekend, then move right on to 3D printing business news and…

WASP Introduces New High-Speed, Dual-Extruder 3D Printers

WASP is 3D printer company with a mission, they think big and they build even bigger. WASP stands for World’s Advanced Saving Project, and the plucky Italian company produces some…

3D Printing News Briefs: April 25, 2017

In today’s edition of 3D Printing News Briefs, we’re covering everything from business to 3D printing, scanning, modeling, and design. EOS joins a manufacturing alliance, while a 3D printer gets an…

Because Of Course It Has, the 3D Printable Creepy Ronaldo Bust Has Arrived

Most airports or landmark buildings tend to be named after ex-leaders, war criminals, founding fathers who used to own other humans or global corporations that pay a lot of money…

Ten 3D Printable Things: Mods and Accessories for the Nintendo Switch

Welcome to Ten 3D Printable Things. Every week I’ll be showcasing 10 fantastic and FREE 3D printable projects, designs and models from all over the web. As always, you can…

Here are Some Fun and Fabulous Things to Fabricate for February

So it’s February. The shortest month of the year, yet somehow it feels like the longest. It’s been winter long enough that everyone’s really sick of it, and it’s grey outside,…

3D Printing Content Trends: MyMiniFactory Releases New Monthly Report

It’s no surprise that we love to check out the latest in reports and trends regarding 3D printing, but usually the concern is with what fancy hardware, software, and mindblowing…

Here’s What a Full Year of 3D Printing in the Cosplay World Looks Like

3D printing is being used every day to make positive changes all over the world, in varied fields from aerospace to medical to education. Then, there’s what I like to…

Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Christmas Gifts for the Person Who Has Everything

We all have that one difficult person on our holiday shopping list who either buys themselves everything that they need or they are impossible to please, making them really difficult to…

MyMiniFactory Launches 3D Design and Printing Contest with WildBrain for New Early Learning Character Designs

MyMiniFactory, the world’s largest curated download platform for free 3D printable models, and the sister site of 3D printer reseller iMakr, launched a 3D design and printing contest this week,…

Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Unique Christmas Tree Decorations & Ornaments

While I plan to have myself a very nerdy Christmas, you don’t have to bring video game or comic book characters into your holiday to give your decorations a unique…

3D Printable Alpha Vector Ship from No Man’s Sky Video Game on MyMiniFactory is the Best of Both Worlds

With all the craziness going on in the world today, it is easy to forget the things that really matter. Small acts of kindness, reaching out to loved ones and…

Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Nerdy Christmas Things

It seems like I just got done wishing you a very nerdy Christmas, but it’s been a whole year already! But while the season may change, the one thing that…

Addressing Planned Obsolescence with 3D Printing

Imagine that you had invented a thingamajig that was widely recognized to be of high quality and very useful. Soon, everyone was buying one and your hard-earned investment was paying…

Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Christmas Cookie Cutters

The day after Thanksgiving, while most people are sleeping off turkey comas or fighting unruly crowds for deals on televisions, is what I call Christmas cookie day. Every Cookie Friday,…

Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Bookends & Book Stands

I’ve been rearranging the books and collectables on the bookshelves in my living room this month and was looking for some way to keep some of my nicer books standing…

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…

Weekly Roundup: Ten Awesome 3D Printable Birdhouses

A few weeks ago I reorganized my office and ended up with a nice, unobstructed view out of my window and into the backyard. I noticed that we tended to…

Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Articulated Toy Robots

This week I was looking for a cool toy to 3D print for my nephew and settled on looking for a fun robot action figure. I knew that there were…

Katjes Magic Candy Factory Exhibits at Digical Show and Presents Design Contest to Win Your Own Gummy 3D Printer

We recently covered iMakr‘s Digical Show in London, which I attended remotely via a telepresence robot. Besides conducting an interview with Romain Kidd, the CEO of MyMIniFactory, I had the…

Weekly Roundup: Ten Last-Minute 3D Printable Halloween Costumes

There is nothing more annoying than trying to come up with a last-minute Halloween costume that doesn’t make you look like your costume is last minute. I’ve managed to come…

Weekly Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Halloween Trick or Treat Things

With things like peanut and other food allergies being so much more common than they used to be there are a lot of reasons to avoid giving out candy as…

MyMiniFactory Wonderland Seeks Makers to Curate MyMiniFactory 3D Printable Models

iMakr, the popular 3D printer reseller, has been a very strong advocate for desktop 3D printing. Their sister site, MyMiniFactory, is a platform for free 3D printable models, the main…