Thursday, December 31, 2015

2015: The Year of 3D Printing Corrections

We’ve been writing about 3D printing for over eight years now, and 2015 may have been the most tumultuous and amazing...

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Hands On With Feelcolor’s Fascinating 3D Printer Filaments

We managed to test some really amazing 3D printer filament from newcomer Feelcolor.

Previously we’ve ...

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New 3D Printer Hot End Could Solve The Filament Dilemma

The “1730 Full Metal Hotend” from ReprapUniverse in The Netherlands is able to handle two different filament...

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

UCLA Invents New Strong And Lightweight Metal, But Can It Be 3D Printed?

A new metal alloy developed by UCLA researchers looks quite promising, particularly for aerospace use, but can it be 3D...

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3D Printing Is Too Slow, Unless You Have A Farm

We’re checking out a new 3D print service, Printaworld, which boasts of a 100+ unit 3D printer “farm”.

The...

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If You Can Image It, You Can 3D Scan It

The ability to create detailed 3D scans of practically anything is in everyone’s hands and most people don’t...

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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Implications of The Demise of 3D Systems’ Cube 3D Printer

Yesterday 3D Systems announced not only the demise of The Cube, but also their entire consumer brand, Cubify. What are...

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Is There A Campaign Against Stratasys?

We’re reading a curious story from Ticker Report that highlights someone selling their stake in Stratasys. Is this...

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BREAKING: 3D Systems Kills The Cube - And Cubify!

In retrospect perhaps not the most surprising development, 3D printing giant 3D Systems has discontinued the Cube,...

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Monday, December 28, 2015

Gartner Examines Stratasys’ Strategy; We Agree

Gartner 3D printing analyst and Fabbaloo friend Pete Basiliere visited Stratasys’ HQ to find out more about their...

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Stratasys’ New Logo

Somehow we totally missed this, and perhaps you did too: Stratasys has rebranded with a new logo!

According to...

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Design of the Week: Robot Drinky

This week’s selection is the amazingly lifelike “Robot Drinky” by Korea-based Euchan Park.

To tell the...

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Sunday, December 27, 2015

La Poste’s Big Step Into 3D Printing

France’s postal service, La Poste just set up a comprehensive 3D model repository to power their network of 3D...

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Saturday, December 26, 2015

3D Printing As Expert Court Witness?

We’re reading an interesting report from The Expert Institute where they describe the increasing use of 3D prints in...

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Friday, December 25, 2015

uMake For 3D Printing? We Don’t Think So

A new iOS app for easily creating sketch-based 3D models appeared: uMake. But we’re not sure it’s best for 3D...

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Need A Different 3D Printer Filament Color? Colorilab Has Over 180

One of the ongoing annoyances with filament-based 3D printing is the lack of suitable colors for prints. Now that may...

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Printable Concrete: Coming Soon to a Construction Site Near You

We’ve reported on 3D printing concrete before, but 2016 looks to be the year that will finally see this production...

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Six Questions With Joshua Harker

One of the most well-known 3D print artists is Joshua Harker, who has produced a number of incredible 3D prints that...

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Wash And Repaint 3D Prints With BioInspiration's Eco-Filaments

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Startup BioInspiration launched their line of biodegradable 3D printer filaments on Kickstarter a while ago, but now...

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Additive Industries Nails Their First Beta Tester For MetalFAB1

Netherlands-based Additive Industries has found a willing tester for their massive metal 3D printing system, the...

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WI3DP: Madelynn Martiniere

This article originates from Women In 3D Printing and is part of our effort to support the use of 3D printing...

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Yobi3D Makes Searching For 3D Models A Lot More Fun

We found a terrific meta-site for sourcing publicly available 3D models: Yobi3D.

This service overcomes the...

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Materialise Patents a 3D Gripper?

We just noticed an unusual patent application from 3D print service Materialise: a three-fingered “gripper”. What...

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Autodesk Memento Now Available for OS X

If you haven’t tried Autodesk Memento for optical 3D processing, you might want to, especially now that it’s...

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Apollo 11 Coming Soon To Your 3D Printer?

A team from The Smithsonian and Autodesk are performing an intricate 3D scan of the actual Apollo 11 capsule.

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