Netherlands

New Maritime Consortium Forms — Will Research 3D Printing of Spare Ship Parts

The Port of Rotterdam is Europe’s largest sea port, and it boasts excellent accessibility for sea-going vessels, intermodal connections and the 180,000 people who work for and in the surrounding…

Create it REAL & WEISTEK Partner to Release IdeaWerk Speed 3D Printer

Almost as soon as 3D printing began to catch on, it became not only a rapidly growing technology but one being constantly refined by its community–and what was first on…

OWOW! A New Age of Music: Wob, Wiggle & 3D Print Your System Case Too

Appropriately, combining music with the option of 3D printing part of the high-tech equipment is a multi-layering of creativity that certainly couldn’t yield anything but interesting–and high-quality–results. In the case…

ElevatedMaps Launches to Create Artistic 3D Printed Custom Maps of Anyplace in the World

I’m in the process of moving into a new home, and boy do I have my hands full. My husband and I have decided to furnish and design the interior…

Snow White & Deep Black: FunToDo Answers Growing Needs in Resin Monochrome 3D Printing

FunToDo is a resin supplier committed to providing both affordability and quality. They also keep up with market trends, and know their customers, which is the sign of a great…

3D Printed Steel Pedestrian Bridge Will Soon Span an Amsterdam Canal

The oldest of Amsterdam’s approximately 1,280 bridges in use dates back to 1648. The city is famous for its beautiful canals and waterways, and Dutch engineers have long made their names in…

Researchers Develop 3D Printed Lattices to Manipulate Buckling in New Mechanical Material

As most are well-aware by now, 3D printing can be used to make many items that are fun, and even whimsical, from 3D printed parts for train sets to integrating the technology…

Blind Dutch Girl Receives Incredible 3D Printed Statuette in Her Own Likeness for 16th Birthday

The power of people and technology coming together to do thoughtful things for others is what often makes 3D printing so powerful and interesting on many levels. With the ease of…

3D Printed Bioplotting May Offer Comfort to Diabetes Patients

Type 1 diabetes is a malady usually diagnosed in children and young adults, once known as juvenile diabetes. Only five percent of diabetes sufferers have this form of the disease; in…

Amsterdam Company Combines 3D Printed Metal and Artisanal Glass in Maritime Theme

Amsterdam-based Faberhama, a home product design firm headed by a team of Italian designers, is using state-of-the-art 3D printing technology combined with the time-honored craft of glassblowing in a new…

London: Massive 3D Printed Honey Artwork Creates a Buzz over Colony Collapse Disorder

Nothing gets the creative juices flowing more readily than the idea of 3D printing with food–and especially the sweet stuff. While we’ve reported on everything from 3D printed chocolate to 3D…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — May 23, 2015

This week’s stories we didn’t cover move from small daily details, like 3D printed bowls we can slurp from, all the way to a new industrial-size metal printer from Additive…

Multi-Material, Swappable Extruder, Portable 3D Printer: The Focus Launches on Kickstarter

While using desktop 3D printers can be both fun and profitable, after almost a decade of experimenting some rather common annoyances have started to be noticed. Most 3D printers are…

TeeBot – The Mobile 3D Printer in a Suitcase, Now on Kickstarter

Emmanuel Adetutu of 3DStuffsNL is a data analyst and programmer with degrees in computer science and geoinformatics. He’s also a maker, thinker, and developer who creates 3D models, and now…

Sounds Good! Researchers Use 3D Printing to Produce Eardrum Scaffold

One of the more notable factors affecting the field of medical 3D printing is the simple ‘cool’ factor in looking at how far we have come from treatments of times…

Dutch Student’s 3D Printed Ceramics Showcase Printer’s Unique Programming

Design student and ceramist Olivier van Herpt’s 3D printed ceramics, unveiled during Design Week in Milan, are visually stunning. Larger in scale than one would expect with 3D printed objects,…

3DSVP Introduces Zinomat to Keep Your Prints from Sticking to the Build Plate

3D printed objects often stick to the build plate and can be hard to remove, and the innovative team at Netherlands-based 3DSVP says that they have the solution to the problem. The new…

Dutch Designer Re-Releases Award-Winning 103% Vase Thanks to 3D Printing

Many of us may not yet have known to worry about the disappearance of the 103% Vase. It’s good to see we haven’t missed out on the chance to own one,…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — May 2, 2015

This week’s news we didn’t cover includes new 3D printing services, such as Materialise’s upcoming massive 3D model database, Scanning Cars’ online selection of printable auto models, and Israel-based 3DShook’s…

Life is Like a 3D Printed Marble Machine

For all its useful and world changing applications there is one thing that often gets lost in the buzz about 3D printing. Sometimes it can just be about having a…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — April 25, 2015

This week’s stories move from Europe and South Korea, to the developing world, to North American academics and makers. This news includes: a Dutch company’s new weekly 3D printed lampshade;…

World Security Alert: Dutch Students Sneak Potentially Deadly 3D Printed Knives Into Courtroom

When most people think about the dangers that 3D printing may pose for society in the long run, the first topic that is brought to our attention is the potential…

3D Printed Small-Scale Version of Cool City Bicycle Celebrates Dutch Bike Culture

Quinten van Alphen and Twan Smeets along with a few other students at the Industrial Engineering and Management School at Fontys Technical University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands collaborated…

Octofiber 3D Printing Filament Offers Storage System, Reduces Tangling & Failed Prints

As 3D printing grows wildly in popularity, and the making community and 3D printing industry continues to improve on 3D printing equipment whether it’s open-source or made by retail manufacturers,…