social networks
Medical Goes Additive: How Social Networks Are Humanizing the 3D Printing Industry
It seems so obvious that it shouldn’t need to be said, but the activities of machines can only ever be, at most, half of what defines a technology. The remainder…
Wikifactory Partners with Fablabs.io, Introduces New Workflow Features
All-in-one workspace Wikifactory, a social platform for collaborative product development, has been pretty busy this summer, first releasing its beta platform and then launching the Docubot Challenge. Now the startup, which was…
Entrepreneur and Startup Advisor Andrew Weinreich Focuses on 3D Printing in Future Homebuilding for Podcast Episode
It took me an embarrassingly long time to finally try listening to a podcast: I’m a fairly visual person, and I didn’t think I would enjoy just sitting and listening…
Life Support: 3D Printlife’s Tech Support Network Announced at CES 2017, Now Looking for 3D Printing Tech Experts to Sign Up
Los Angeles-based filament provider 3D Printlife can normally be seen in the 3D printing headlines because of its eco-friendly filaments. Back in 2014, the company partnered with Sierra Resins to create a 3D bioplastic filament,…
Looking to Meet Some Like-Minded People? Try PatternSpace, a New Social Network for 3D Printing Enthusiasts
I can’t think of another industry that is so built on networking and sharing as 3D printing. It really is the technology of the 21st century, lending itself perfectly to…
AstroPrint Partners with i.materialise & More
AstroPrint, both a service and a device, lets users control their 3D printers from a tablet or other wireless device and connect to their account on AstroPrint.com. From there, a…
3D Printed Tinder Profiles? Dating Gets Complicated with ‘Tinder Gems’
Back in May of 2008, I ventured onto a social networking site that many of you may recall, called MySpace. This was well before Justin Timberlake bought the social networking…
Formlabs’ PopUp 3D Printing Factory Prints 500 Items in 2 Days at Solid Conference
What happens when you have a dozen 3D printers and two days of time to use them? You end up with 500 3D prints of some soldered and assembled, wearable…
Formlabs to Create First Popup 3D Printing Manufacturing Factory at Solid Conference, San Francisco — June 23–25
3D printing is an almost always inspiring, but often very serious, business. When stories of 3D models being used to help diagnose illness and even save lives in the medical…
3D Printed DATA-MASKS Challenge Social Media Surveillance Technologies
“Computer systems built to represent human identities have contained with them many ontological assumptions about what it is to be an individual and what personal identity is. These systems define…
JustMake: A Platform for the Public to 3D Print, Seeks Funding on Indiegogo
As 3D printing has become part of the greater public awareness, there is a great deal of interest in the production of customized objects. However, creating an object from scratch…
