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Sculpteo Continues Testing Carbon CLIP Technology and Materials with Cyanate Ester
When 3D printing startup Carbon released the first video of of their CLIP 3D printing technology in action it was almost unbelievable. Watching a solid, three dimensional model be pulled from…
Zhuhai CTC Electronic Will Start Offering OEM Services to 3D Printer Manufacturers Looking to Develop SLA Technology
Leading Chinese 3D printing technology manufacturer Zhuhai CTC Electronic Co. has announced that they are launching new OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturing) services for their high-precision stereolithography (SLA) technology. The goal…
Disney Research Just Invented a “3D Copier” That Uses Light-Cured Resin to Duplicate Entire Objects Instantly
Using light-cured resins to 3D print physical objects is not a new technology. In fact, the oldest form of 3D printing is stereolithography (SLA), a process that uses a laser…
UNIZ Technology Launches Kickstarter for Slash Consumer LCD-SLA 3D Printer for Under $1000
It is starting to look like we’re entering a new phase of 3D printing that may make standard FDM desktop 3D printing virtually obsolete. Fused deposition modelling has pretty much…
Bunnie Huang Tears Down a Form2 3D Printer and Finds Out What Makes It Tick
Stereolithography is actually one of the oldest varieties of 3D printing, with roots that go back all the way to the 1970s. However, before Formlabs launched their record-breaking nearly $3…
The UNIZ Slash SLA 3D Printer Can Print 50 Times Faster Than the Formlabs Form 2
It says a lot about how much exciting 3D printing news there was at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas when a new 3D printer as exciting as…
Materialise and Structo Launch New Structo PrintWorks Build Processor
Belgium-based 3D printing software developer and 3D printing services provider Materialise teamed up with Singapore-based SLA 3D printer manufacturer Structo to create a dedicated build processor. The new PrintWorks build…
NewPro3D Hits CES 2016 to Show Off Their Super Fast ILI 3D Printer
After their very public spat with a rival light-cured resin 3D printer manufacturer in November, the Canada-based NewPro3D had been keeping a relatively low profile. While the company was almost…
Hack of the Day: Build Your Own UV Cure Box for Under $30, Courtesy of Formlabs
Stereolithography printers are lovely, aren’t they? They’re fast, they’re smooth, and they create great detail. Post-processing can be a bit of a bother, though. SLA pieces tend to need additional…
Kudo3D Releases New PSP Resin Vats for the Titan 1 SLA 3D Printer
Last year when San Francisco startup Kudo3D launched a Kickstarter campaign for their Titan 1 SLA 3D Printer it almost sounded too good to be true. Not only was the…
Phoenix Touch DLP 3D Printer Introduced at Maker Faire
Not only was Maker Faire chock full of 3D printers, it was also a showcase for subtractive manufacturing, namely laser cutters and CNC machines. Full Spectrum Laser (FSL) while best known…
Forecast 3D Helped NASA Mars Habitat Challenge Winner 3D Print a Replica of their Winning Design
After discovering flowing liquid water on the surface of Mars, NASA was quick to announce that they have officially started planning on a manned mission to the red planet. Which…
3D Printed in Just 19 Minutes, Hollow Ball Can Withstand Almost 30 Kg of Weight, Thanks to Gizmo 3D’s Technology
Typically when you think of the tradeoff between 3D printing speed and the quality in which the parts that come off of these printers exhibit, they have a negative correlation….
MLC CAD Systems & 3D Systems Announce Partnership to Provide 3D Printing Solutions
They began with a single location in Austin, TX over 30 years ago and have since grown to 19 locations across the US and in Mexico. Now, MLC CAD Systems…
CreoPop, Maker of SLA 3D Printing Pen, Secures Another Round of Financing
CreoPop, the world’s first 3D printing pen which uses cool ink, has just completed another round of financing, this time led by Wavemaker Partners and the Singapore National Research Foundation….
The $100 SLA Peachy Printer Kit is Finally Here & it’s Amazing
You may recall back in 2013, a tiny little 3D printer hit Kickstarter, priced at just $100. It was called the Peachy Printer, and this was unheard of price-wise, especially…
Student Creates Super Fast ‘Membrane Based’ 3D Printer – Prints 40 x 40 x 100 mm Objects at 10 Microns in 12 Minutes
It is truly amazing how quickly the 3D printing space is developing. Just two weeks ago we stood stunned as a company called Carbon3D unveiled a new breakthrough 3D printing…
Chinese Company Unveils a Super Fast SLA 3D Printer – Can Print 2,712 cm3 in 1 Hour?
It was just two weeks ago that we reported on a company called Carbon3D and their extremely fast DLP SLA 3D printing process called “CLIP”. They claimed to be able…
Clean Your 3D Printed Form1+ Parts in the Loafinator
Christopher Barry is the founder, CEO and chief designer of Earborg, what he calls “a new way to listen and interact with the world in a compact, modular and extensible,…
Form 1+ 3D Printer Just Got Draft Mode & Smart Supports – Enables the 3D Printing of a Working Speaker
Formlabs is a company that has gone from Kickstarter superstar to the leading manufacturer of consumer/prosumer SLA 3D printers. Their Form 1+ 3D printer is their latest machine. It was…
3D Systems’ Lawsuit Against Formlabs is Dismissed
Although legal battles over intellectual property, particularly patents, are a common occurrence within many larger technological fields, the 3D printing industry has remained relatively quiet when it comes to legal disputes….
3D Systems (NYSE: DDD) is Ready to Unveil Their Most Advanced 3D Printing Products Ever by Month’s End
3D Systems and Stratasys have been the leaders within the 3D printing space for years. Just recently Hewlett Packard jumped into the mix, with plans of disrupting the space by…
IIT Student Creates ‘The Bug’, a Fiber Composite 3D Printer
Whether you are religious, atheist, agnostic, or none of the above, you have to admit that when it comes to nature, a lot can be learned. For example, the invention…
Project PAM – College Students Look to Create an Entirely Open Source DLP 3D Printer
Open source has contributed to 3D printing in such a tremendous way. Without the open sourcing of many desktop 3D printers several years ago, the space would not be nearly…