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What I Would Do If I Were Josef Průša, Part 2: Right on the Nose
How can you beat Garry Kasparov? With a baseball bat. If you ask yourself the question, “How can I beat Garry Kasparov,” and silently add the fragment “at chess” in…
What I Would Do If I Were Josef Průša, Part 1: Shark Cosplay
If I were Josef Průša, I’d probably gloat and be insufferable. Honestly, though, it’s a question that has vexed me. Josef asked on LinkedIn whether people would like to see…
3D Printing News Briefs & Events Roundup: March 8, 2025
Starting this week, we’re shaking things up a little! We’ll be combining our 3D Printing News Briefs with a more curated weekly list of 3D printing webinars and events to…
Open Source Lab Instrument with 3D Printed Components Autonomously Monitors Embryos
There are several examples of 3D printed robots being used to help with aquatic research, but never anything quite like the autonomous LabEmbryoCam, developed over the past decade by the…
3D Printing News Unpeeled: Freemelt, Supernova Energetic Materials and Dcubed
BCN3D Technologies spin off Supernova will start a Defence & Space business unit to focus on 3D printed energetic materials. That kind of thing is in high demand as they…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 14, 2024: Reverse Engineering, STEM Learning, & More
We’re taking care of business first in 3D Printing News Briefs today, as Solideon has oversubscribed its pre-seed funding goals and Revopoint3D announced a global strategic partnership with KVS for…
Rescuing the Additive Industry: The Straight Edge 3D Printing Manifesto
Things have not been going well in the 3D printing industry for a long time. Much has been written on this topic and the reasons for this situation have been…
3D Printing News Briefs, April 27, 2024: Research, Digital Dentistry, Cycling, & More
We’re starting today’s 3D Printing News Briefs with some research into 3D printed luminescent quantum-dot polymer architectures and free-form laser beam shaping, and then on to an open source 4-axis…
3D Printing News Briefs, March 16, 2024: Partnerships, Affordable Bioprinter, & More
We’re starting with dental 3D printing news today, and then moving on to some new partnerships. Then it’s on to some interesting university research about 3D printing plant-based pharmaceuticals, but…
3D Printed Energy Harvesters Could Make Your Home More Sustainable
Have you ever thought about how much energy we waste during a day? We open doors, turn off lights, and close cabinets—and for what? For it to turn into motion…
Shape the Future of AM: The 3MF Consortium Seeks Your Input on File Format Improvements
The 3MF Consortium is actively seeking feedback from designers, engineers, and software developers in the additive manufacturing space on their use of the 3MF file format, and how it can…
Open Source Everything: Potential Success Areas
In this series, we previously explored how people use open-source hardware to develop unique tools, solutions, and projects. We also identified key elements for a successful open-source hardware initiative. Now,…
The State of Open Source 3D Printing: Make Copycats and Freeloaders into Assets
Josef Průša, the founder and CEO of Prusa Research, published an important and thought provoking article titled “The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023” where he called for…
Open Source 3D Printing: Set up Your Open Hardware Development So Everyone Can Participate
Josef Průša, the founder and CEO of Prusa Research, published an important and thought provoking article titled “The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023” where he called for…
The State of Open-source 3D Printing: How to Preemptively Quash Patent Parasites and Trolls
Josef Průša, the founder and CEO of Prusa Research, published an important and thought provoking article titled “The state of open-source in 3D printing in 2023” where he called for…
Open Source Melt Electrowriting 3D Printer Could Democratize Advanced Techniques
Through my years-long obsession with polycaprolactone (PCL), I’ve followed melt electrowriting (MEW), but while it has progressed it never really blew up. I was therefore overjoyed when we came across…
3D Printed Gillbert the Robo-Fish Keeps Waterways Clean by Vacuuming Microplastics
A student from the University of Surrey designed a 3D printed robotic fish for a new contest, and her winning entry, a Robo-Fish called Gillbert, happily vacuums up microplastics from…
3D Printing Webinar and Event Roundup: September 4, 2022
We’re getting busy again for this week’s webinar and event roundup! The Stratasys tour is taking.a break, but the company is still presenting a webinar on the NASA Hunch Program….
Open Source 3D Printed Surgical Table Cuts Costs by 98 Percent
We hear a lot about 3D printed medical devices like models, implants, prosthetics, surgical tools, and even medical device packaging, but how about a 3D printed surgical fracture table? Researchers…
US Air Force, GE, and America Makes Announce Winners of Open Source Additive Scanning Challenge
In order to advance and optimize additive scanning path development in laser powder bed additive manufacturing, America Makes, together with the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and GE Global Research…
New TAZ Sidekick Desktop 3D Printer Released by LulzBot
LulzBot has announced the newest addition to its TAZ line of desktop 3D printers, the TAZ SideKick. The machine is available in two sizes and is designed to be highly…
3D Printing News Briefs, August 4, 2021: Metal Binder Jetting and More
We’ve got business, materials, and more in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, starting with Sandvik announcing the acquisition of DWFritz. Moving on, Xometry can now instantly provide price quotes for…
The PRO/CESS of a Genderless Customizable 3D Printed Bike Saddle
Have you ever wondered how a bike saddle might fit or be constructed if we took gender identity out of the equation? Berlin-based industrial designer Tim Schütze has done just…
Metal 3D Printing Firm Freemelt to List on Swedish Stock Exchange
As we learned recently from the folks at Stifel, when one company lists on the stock market, it gives other businesses the initiative and confidence to follow suit. After a…
