stereolithography
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…
Researchers Create a Fully Articulated 3D Printed Soft Robot Octopus Tentacle
I’ll be the first to admit that there is a lot of humor to be had in the fact that scientists 3D printed an articulated tentacle, and trust me the…
ARRK Creates New 3D Printing Facility in Poland
This bit of news has to begin in 1948 in Osaka, Japan with the founding of a tooling company. Since that time, they have grown from a small office in…
Dem Bones Seeks to Revolutionize Veterinary Education with 3D Printed Canine Skeletons
We’ve shared a lot of stories with you about the benefits that 3D printing has provided for medical education, for example the 3D anatomy series produced by Monash University. Now a project…
Researchers Create a High Viscosity SLA 3D Printer That Can Print Teeth, Metals & More
Typically when we think of desktop 3D printers, we either picture an FDM/FFF, extrusion based machine, or an SLA (steterolithographic) machine. Both of these printers have their positive and negatives…
A PowerPoint 3D Printer: Missouri Teacher is Building a Unique $20 3D Printer with His Students
When it comes to 3D printing within the classroom environment, there are some teachers who welcome it with open arms, while there are others who are deathly afraid of the…
Formlabs Heads to Germany, Opens Office in Berlin, Partners with iGo3D
When it comes to desktop Stereolithography (SLA) 3D printers, their is one company who is leading the pack by leaps and bounds. That company is Somerville, Massachusetts-based Formlabs. A major…
Autodesk Open Sources Their 3D Printer Resin – Providing Recipe to All & Opening the Door to New Materials
Open source technology is what brought the desktop 3D printer space to where it is now. If it weren’t for groups such as RepRap, who really encouraged the sharing of open…
3D Printing Your Heart of Gold via a CT Scan
It’s probably not quite what Neil Young had in mind, but Canadian artist Brendon McNaughton has a heart of gold. Or at least, after seeing the possibilities for 3D printing…
33cm Tall, Extremely Detailed Bear, Printed on a Form 1+ 3D Printer in 7 Pieces
There is always that debate: which 3D printing technology is best for home/small business use? Is it stereolithography (SLA), like that found in the Formlabs Form1+ 3D printer, or is…
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…
Julien Maire Creates Unique 3D Animated Cinema Using 3D Printed Objects in Place of Film
“Film making is a huge privilege; it’s not brain surgery. It’s art, and art is supposed to be an enjoyable process.” ~ Actress Lake Bell Film making is certainly a…
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…
Sharebot Announces New Voyager SLA 3D Printer to Go Along with New SLS and FDM Printers
The news just comes pouring in for Italian based 3D printer manufacturer, Sharebot. Within the past week alone, we have reported on three different new 3D printers that Sharebot has…
Mec’Nex – A Sub-$100 3D Printer Constructed of K’nex, Utilizes a Unique SLA Printing System
I hold a belief that 3D printing won’t fully catch on among at-home users until an affordable Stereolithography (SLA) based solution becomes available. SLA is definitely the future in my…
LittleRP: Open Source SLA 3D Printer With Unique Tilt Option Set to Hit Kickstarter
Back in May, we reported on a 3D Printer called the LittleDLPer, which was an open source DLP SLA 3D Printer which had plans to launch a campaign on Kickstarter….
First Full Color Consumer Level Stereolithography & FDM 3D Printers Coming Soon From OVE
Polish company aims to revolutionize the 3D printing industry with full color 3D printers, that utilize a unique patent-pending CMYK color technology. When it comes to consumer level 3D printers,…
Helios One 3D Printer – New Heliolithography Technology Could Eventually Replace SLA and FDM
When it comes to consumer level 3D printers, there are 2 types of technology currently available. There is fused deposition modeling (FDM) and there is stereolithography (SLA). The former creates…
Spanish Company LEÓN3D Announces New LionCrewer 1.0 SLA 3D Printer – Priced Well Under 2000€
For years, the go-to technology for at-home consumer level 3D printing has been fused deposition modeling (FDM), where a spool of plastic material (filament) is melted and extruded onto a…
How Green Is My 3D Printer? Scientists Warn Of Heavy Metal Pollution
Some of the materials used in 3D printing can leech toxins that could have environmental and health implications, say researchers in the US. The team has focused their attention on…
3D Printing of Chinese Cultural Artifacts Causes Controversy
Can something priceless have its value damaged by making copies? Artist Oliver Laric doesn’t think so, but his position has not found universal agreement. Laric, who has already made a…
Stalactite 3D SLA Printer Launches on Indiegogo
Over the past year or so, we have seen an amazingly large number of 3D printers pop up on crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Several of these have…
