RepRap project
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…
The Top Ten Most Significant 3D Printed Things: The Results Are In
First I came up with a list of the 10 most significant 3D printed things, then this list was expanded upon to include 24 and you could vote to determine…
Vote for the Most Significant 3D Printed Thing in the World 2017
Soooo….a few weeks ago I released the definitive, totally unsurpassable Top 10 3D Printed Things. It turned out that sadly some mere mortals did in fact disagree with me. I’ve decided…
Five Global 3D Printing Pioneers Inducted at the Inaugural TCT Hall of Fame Awards
It was a busy week at the 22nd TCT Show in Birmingham, which just ended yesterday. Many innovative companies used the international trade fair event as an opportunity to showcase…
3D Printing Educator Spotlight On: Joshua Pearce, PhD, Associate Professor, Michigan Tech
As the global population continues to expand massively, with an estimated 7.5 billion people alive today, sustainability is becoming an ever-more-pressing concern. It takes a lot of energy to support…
Popularity of FDM
Since the early 2000s, fused deposition modeling (FDM)—more formally referred to as material extrusion by ASTM and ISO—has been the most popular additive manufacturing and 3D printing process worldwide. In…
What The Heck is Happening Over on the RepRap Project’s Wikipedia Page?
Being a Wikipedia editor is absurdly hard and usually pretty thankless work. With well over five million articles available on Wikipedia, many of which need to be regularly monitored, edited…
Johns Hopkins Students Build a 3D printer of Their Very Own with Buildclass
These days most people can simply buy a pre-made 3D printer and only need to press a button to get it to work, but there are those in the maker…
The Uplift Prize: Uplifting Billions Through 3D Printing
If you’ve donated money to a charity, you may have wondered where, exactly, the money goes. How much of it is going directly to the aid of the people in…
