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3D Printing Companies Roll Out the Discounts for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2017

It’s about to be that time of year again, when ordinarily sane people lose their sense and get up before dawn to stand in the cold for the chance to…

3D Printing World Firsts Announced Today: 3D Print with Incredible New Materials, Meet a Voice-Controlled 3D Printer

For some reason, this time of year is always rife with 3D printing announcements of an unbelievable caliber. The latest, utterly incredible 3D printing materials come center stage alongside 3D…

Pinshape Announces Print to Win Proto-pasta Filament Contest

It was just several months ago when Pinshape announced that they were closing due to lack of finances, only to be rescued in the 11th hour by Formlabs. Since then, the…

Aleph Objects Triples Revenue in 2015, Offers New Products at CES 2016

Colorado-based open source 3D printer and hardware manufacturer Aleph Objects, Inc. saw record profits in 2015 as sales tripled. The record-breaking year of sales, driven primarily by their popular LulzBot TAZ…

Lessons in 3D Printing from Scott Hanselman: Far More Than “Plastic Pieces of Crap”

It is often appropriate, after the holiday season has wrapped up, to examine all of the stuff with which our lives are filled and try to discover some way to…

Two-Year-Old Proto-pasta Celebrates with a Pine-Scented Filament, a Holiday Gift Guide and More

Who doesn’t love that piney Christmas tree smell around this time of year? Now you can fill your 3D printing studio with the aroma, even if you’re nowhere near pine…

3D Print your Morning Cup of Joe with Proto-pasta’s New Aromatic Coffee PLA

No, you can’t drink the new Aromatic Coffee PLA, but after printing a few 3D models you may want to pour yourself a cup. 3D printing materials manufacturer Proto-pasta has just…

Summer Might Be Ending, But 3D Hubs’ Nozzles are Getting Hotter: This Week’s Events

3D Hubs does not need any proof that it is an international company with locations around the world.  It also doesn’t need much proof that the company is positioned to…

LaserHacker 3D Prints a Working Power Transformer with Proto-pasta’s Magnetic Iron Filament

While many innovators and inventors are trying to come up with new ideas for enhanced 3D printer hardware, the true advancements in 3D printing will occur within the material space….

This Week 3D Hubs Partners with Proto-pasta for Boston Fab Fest Workshop

3D Hubs is growing and changing how 3D printing fans meet and make things. This includes sponsoring events that bring the 3D printing community together to learn specific practices in 3D…

First Official 3D Hubs ‘Talk Design’ Contest Focuses on 3D Printed GoPro HERO4 Session Accessories

Nick Woodman founded GoPro in 2002 after a surfing trip to Australia. A couple of years down the road, Woodman’s company sold its first camera system, but it was the…

3D Printing Filament Trends & Stats for June 2015

With the desktop 3D printing hardware space continuing to evolve, it seems as though every day we are covering new unique uses for the technology. While these new uses come…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — June 27, 2015

In this week’s 3D printing news, we have stories about 3D printable icons, like Batman and Elvis, and a chance to win a MakerBot Replicator 2 just for buying tickets to…

3D Hubs Lavishes Five New Perks on Users with Discounted 3D Printing Materials, Software, & More

While the world of 3D printing and innovation is already extremely rewarding in itself, 3D Hubs is busy spoiling their users even further, lavishing five new perks on the community….

This Amazing Conductive Buzz Trace Game Was Entirely 3D Printed

Two years ago, if you asked me what desktop 3D printers could possibly be used to create, my answer would have been very short. You would have been limited to…

3D Printing Filament Trends & Stats Released by GlobalFSD for March 2015

What are the top 3D printer filaments on the market? Which companies are receiving the most interest? These are questions that many of us would love to know the answers…

3D Print Your Own Electronics! ProtoPlant Launches Kickstarter for Extremely Conductive PLA Filament

There are a handful of 3D printer filament manufacturers that have really been pumping out all sorts of new materials as of late. One such company is ProtoPlant, which is…

Proto-Pasta Announces Stainless Steel and Magnetic Iron PLA Filament for 3D Printing

Just the other day we did a story on a new filament called ProtoFlux, which provided magnetic properties to whatever it was used to fabricate. It seemed to be something completely…

Proto-Pasta Plans to Release a New Exotic 3D Printer Filament: Design their limited edition spool!

A hip group of Vancouver, Washington makers and tinkerers, Proto-pasta, has launched a contest for budding or professional designers. The contest precedes Proto-pasta’s release of a new 3D printer filament,…