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Optimize the quality of your 3D prints through 3D Matter's study on the influence of infill %, layer height & infill pattern

Mar.11, 2015 - Fortunately, thanks to a study done by 3D printing start-up 3D Matter, you won't have to go through a whole trial-and-error process anymore. Save yourself time, money and frustration and find out what printing parameters are right.. More

Lumi Industries releases free 'Text to 3D Braille Converter' to support communication with blind

Mar.11, 2015 - Italian 3D printer manufacturer Lumi Industries has just launched a new free and useful tool to support communication with blind people and their interaction with the world around them: a text to braille converter. More

Airwolf 3D unveils Wolfbite Nano adhesive solution for optimal PLA 3D printing

Mar.11, 2015 - Costa Mesa, Calif. based 3D printer manufacturer Airwolf 3D today announced Wolfbite Nano, a new solution specifically engineered to bond polylactic acid (PLA) plastic parts to a glass 3D printer build plate... More

Scandy lets you to create, share, and print 3D scans for $20

Mar.11, 2015 - New Orleans-based Scandy has just launched a personalized scan-to-print service, aiming to make 3D scanning and printing readily available to the general public. More

Canadian engineer hacks his 3D printer to work with a NES remote

Mar.10, 2015 - However, avid Pronterface-user Canadian engineer Jeff Payeur has developed an interesting hack that makes Pronterface more intuitive to control and definitely a lot more fun to use: he has hacked his setup to be controlled... More

3D printing used to help those in need of low-cost prosthetics in Syria conflict

Mar.10, 2015 - With a mission centered around "employing disruptive technology to improve human rights fulfillment for both refugees and host communities in conflict zones," Refugee Open Ware - or ROW - essentially establishes and operates... More

Supercharge your 3D printer with the Fastbot BBP controller board

Mar.10, 2015 - Aiming to speed up the 3D printing process, a group of young (but experienced!) tech-savvy 3D printing enthusiasts who make up the Fastbot team have been busy creating a 3D printer controller board that they have recently launched... More

These ultra-realistic teeth were made by new triple-jetting Stratasys dental 3D printer

Mar.10, 2015 - Scheduled to be unveiled on Wednesday, March 11th at the International Dental Show in Cologne, Germany, the Objet260 Dental Selection 3D Printer was designed to take digital dentistry realism and precision to the next level... More

Formula One pit crews now using custom-made 3D printed noise Reducing earplugs

Mar.10, 2015 - The Cardiff-based company Minerva Hearing revealed today that they are using 3D printing to produce customized earplugs for a number of Formula One pit crews and engineers. More

Onshape raises $65 million for CAD software, public beta goes live

Mar.10, 2015 - A very exciting and promising new program has just launched: Onshape. Designed by the main team behind SolidWorks, it is shaping up to every bit as functional as that ever-popular piece of software. More

Robosavvy debuts 3D printed Segway-riding robot in Barcelona

Mar.10, 2015 - But perhaps one of the biggest hits was the 3D printed Humanoid Robot developed by Robosavvy. Not only can this cool robot drive a Segway, it can even be operated through Oculus Rift to make it a perfect telepresence robot. More

Ultra-realistic 3D printed organs let Japanese doctors practice real surgery now

Mar.10, 2015 - The 3D printed ultra-realistic lung -- wet, soft, and complete with tumours and blood vessels, will allow surgeons to hone their skills without hurting anyone. More

3D printed mouthpiece Hydra-Guard helps athletes stay hydrated during games

Mar.9, 2015 - The Hydra-Guard has been developed by Louisiana-based inventor Joseph Tucker, and it is reportedly the world's first refillable and hydrating mouth guard. More

CeramicSpeed debuts $1000 3D printed hollow titanium pulley wheels for high quality cycling

Mar.9, 2015 - CeramicSpeed's 3D printed titanium derailleur pulleys have been specifically designed to meet the most extreme applications in professional cycling. More

BoXZY, an all-in-one 3D printer, CNC mill and laser engraver launches on Kickstarter

Mar.9, 2015 - BoXZY's basic setup is a dual extruder FDM 3D printer (with a precision of four microns!) that can be quickly interchanged with a solid 1 ¼ horsepower Makita router, turning the machine into a powerful CNC mill or a laser engraver. More

Sardauscan is a DIY 3D scanner that you can 3D print and build for under $30

Mar.9, 2015 - Sardauscan, developed by Belgium designer Fabio Ferretti, is probably the cheapest 3d scanner you can find online. Ferretti has recently uploaded the schematics for this open source 3D scanner. More

Pirx 3D releases design files for PIRX 3D printer, enables you to build your own for free

Mar.9, 2015 - Pirx 3D, Poland-based 3D printer manufacturer, has announced this week that they are releasing all the design files for their first, wooden-framed model called PIRX. More

Boeing files patent for 3D printing of aircraft parts, printed 20,000 parts for its planes

Mar.9, 2015 - Aircraft manufacturers Boeing are the next in line to file a patent concerning 3D printing, but they are at least taking a different route. In a patent application published this week by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), More

Student creates handheld 3D printer using LEGO bricks and a hot glue gun

Mar.9, 2015 - For a recent university project, New Zealand-born industrial design student Vimal Patel was provided with a small spool of biodegradable 3D printing filament and then tasked "to make something with it". More

Test your 3D printer's limits with this hard-to-print test object

Mar.8, 2015 - While we really should tackle a complex and educational project every now and then, there's an easier option: a hard-to-print test file. While a few can be found on the web, this one by Thingiverse user ctrlV is quite good. More

Desktop 3D 'BioBot' printer builds functional human tissue

Mar.8, 2015 - The young University of Pennsylvania graduates have developed a desktop 3D bioprinter that fabricates the 3D structure of human tissue and could eventually be used to 3D print functional human organs... More

Create a 3D printed robot that dances like Michael Jackson with new robot kit

Mar.8, 2015 - Thanks to 3D printing, you are now about to watch a robot dance like the Thriller himself: Michael Jackson. How is that for getting your weekend started on the right foot? More

Create your own 3D printed icicle projects using the Icicle Atlas

Mar.8, 2015 - The Icicle Atlas is a collection of images, time-lapse movies and time-series data on 237 distinct laboratory-grown icicles made at the University of Toronto's Department of Physics over a four-year period between 2008 and 2012. More

WASP unveils new 3D printer extruder with a rotating nozzle, one step closer to 3D printing houses

Mar.7, 2015 - Yesterday WASP has informed us that they are unveiling a new 3D printer extruder at 3D Print Hub Milan, taking place during March 5-7 in Italy. More

Create your own 3D printed robot with the Pi Tank Open Source Robot

Mar.7, 2015 - Among other open source robot designers is Madis Kaasik, who, along with his development team, developed the Pi Tank open source robot using a Raspberry Pi and 3D printing. More

3D printing meets American football with the VS:0.02 [gridiron]

Mar.6, 2015 - For their most recent project, the artistic duo //benitez_vogl team decided to focus on interpreting game data of an American football game and visually telling a story using a sculptural form. More

NUVU students use Rhino and 3D printing to create exoskeleton cycling shoe for Triathlons

Mar.6, 2015 - Along with a group of classmates at the NUVU school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Connelly developed an exoskeleton cycling shoe that was created specifically for beginner triathletes... More

LUXeXceL compares its transparent 3D printing to SLA, MJM and Polyjet technology

Mar.6, 2015 - But as labels about 'the best' and so on can only truly be based on comparative studies, LUXeXceL recently performed a series of tests to truly capture differences between technologies. More

Intricate, multi-color & multi-material Italian fashion pieces created with 3D printer in hours

Mar.6, 2015 - That is exactly what Gruppo Meccaniche Luciani set out to do when they created a six-piece fashion collection that could only have been built with Stratasys' triple-jetting Object500 Connex3 Color Multi-material 3D production system. More

German company TETRA to release world record nano 3D printer later this year

Mar.6, 2015 - TETRA, a Germany-based company recently announced that their TETRA GmbH nano 3D printer - which features Two-Photon-Polymerization - has earned the title as a world record holder for the smallest nano printing technology. More

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