prototyping
Getting Those Parts Oriented: Made for Me Releases The Ultimate Guide to ABS 3D Printing
These days it’s easy enough to unpack that new 3D printer and set off to work with your starter pack of filament, design files ready to go and models on…
From Ideation to Production: OtterBox Embraces Stratasys’ New J750 Multi-Material 3D Printer
In the future, I would prefer to continue to receive all major news surrounded by otters. This new revelation was brought to me this past week at OtterBox‘s Fort Collins,…
Multi-Color, Multi-Material Unprecedented Efficiency: Stratasys’ J750 Reinvents 3D Printing
“We’re at the beginning of something that’s going to shake up the world.” With these words from Stratasys‘ Chief Business Officer, Joshua Claman, the odyssey finally began. Called with other…
The Viper Project is China’s First High Speed Train Prototyped Entirely with a 3D Printer
When it comes to high speed rail (HSR) transport there really is no one coming even close to matching the rail network of China. Spanning more than 12,000 miles, the…
Crowdsourcing 3D Printing Prototype Testing and Development with Bhold Labs
The prototyping process for developing new products, while necessary, is still a long, expensive and often laborious process. When you think about how often a product needs to be redesigned…
CUJO Smart Device Guards Your Home From Cyber Thieves
Cyber thieves are hacking your computer daily, spying on your children through baby monitors and even gaining access to your home through your digital thermostat, according to the makers of…
3D Printed Footwear the Key for Prototyping & Experimentation
Five years ago, shoe designer Rachael Noon started to experiment with the creation of outdoor footwear using injection molding as the fabrication technique. However, she soon found that the creation…
Mechanical Pencil Performs Double Time with 3D Printed Attachment for Spooling Prototyping Wire
There are those who use pencils, and then there are those who use mechanical pencils. This is a tool that many become so accustomed to, they refuse to use any other…
The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — August 8, 2015
There are some weeks that this review covers mainly hardware, software, and business news. And then there’s weeks in 3D printing news where printed and printable items dominate. This week’s…
Electronics Giant, Hama, Uses a German RepRap To Help Create New Products
I’m never surprised when people come up to me and ask me what 3D printers can be used for. Although, I tend to laugh a little on the inside, I…
3D Printed Spot Welder Increases Prototyping Capabilities
Spot welding is a process by which two pieces of metal are joined together in a permanent manner at a number of points (aka ‘spots’). This is done when an…
Prototyping is Flat — How 3D Printing is Evening the Prototyping Industry
One of my first design projects out of school, more than 20 years ago, was designing the branding and 3D prototype for former fruit drink Fruitopia. Back in those days,…
KAZbrella — Using 3D Printing to Reinvent the Umbrella
Given that most human beings lack the natural oil coating that allows ducks to weather a rainstorm without turning into soaking, bedraggled versions of their former selves, we, as humans,…
3D Printing Allows Young Inventor to Bring His Unique Herb Grinder/Scale to Market
One of the greatest benefits of 3D printing is that it allows entrepreneurs, inventors, and innovators to fabricate, test, and prototype product ideas which previously they would have only dreamt…
Solidscape and LSR’s Design Studio Team to Announce Distruptive Rapid Prototyping Technique
Rapid prototyping was one of the earliest adopters of 3D printing technology, and for good reason. Not only does additive manufacturing have a significant advantage in the speed department over…
Alcoa Announces Intent to Adopt 3D Printing Techniques for Jet Engine Parts, Other Manufacturing
When it rains, it pours; companies are pouring in to welcome 3D printing techniques to their manufacturing processes. The latest to do so is Alcoa, which announced its new intentions…
Medical Innovation Labs Introduces 3D Printing Lab to Austin’s Medical Research Scene
Recognizing the great benefits that 3D printing brings to the medical industry both in the end products that can be created and in its contribution as a tool for research…
Sculpteo Reaches for the Stars, Creates 3D Printed Parts for Pierro Astro
Looking to the stars is a pastime as old as humanity. While most of us no longer look to the movements of the planets and stars for answers about the…
Stratasys Announces Collaboration with Worrell to Optimize Medical Device Prototyping
Today, Stratasys announced a new collaboration with Worrell. This relationship between a leading 3D printing company and a design and product development firm will provide the right background to speed up work in the…
3D Printing & Wearable Technology Combine – The Two Technologies of Tomorrow
Wearable technology is the name given to clothing or accessories that incorporate digital elements, whether practical or for purely aesthetic reasons. The famous Google Glass technology is one example but…
Better Walk Uses 3D Printing to Accelerate Prototyping for a Better Crutch
If you have ever been on crutches, you know that they could use some improvement. Even if you just tried them out that time in high school that your friend…
Third Person Perspective: No longer just in video games… Coming soon to real life, thanks to 3D printing
Video games…. Some people are obsessed with them, while others just don’t see the entertainment value that can be provided by controlling a character on a digital screen. Either way,…
Belgium 3D Printing Company Materialise Acquires Poland’s Leading Prototyping Firm, e-Prototypy
Over the past few months we have seen several significant mergers and acquisitions take place within the 3D printing industry. Today comes yet another rather important acquisition. Materialise, a Belgium…
