News and Insights of 3D Printing and Manufacturing
When you consider which media ride the hype and which ones can create it, Motherboard, Vice’s tech website, certainly belongs to the second type. The same is true about knowing when to stop (riding the hype) and an article by Motherboard shows that that time has come for consumer 3D printing.
It was just a matter of time as many tech giants, such as Google, Apple and Microsoft are already investing heavily in 3D printing technologies. Now Facebook has also joined the crowd with a new service that will enable anyone to 3D print a statuette of any of their active Facebook friends.
Threeding (contact them via their directory page) a leading startup for 3D printable models, and Artec 3D, possible the most succesful developer and manufacturer of prosumer level 3D scanning hardware and software, have teamed up for the 3D digitization and availability of 55 3D printed endangered birds and bird species.
It is not our intention to compare ourselves to Caravaggio. It would only be presumptuous, to say the least. However, we would like to explain the tremendous and demanding work of modelling (and not just that!) that was carried out to replicate the Flagellation of Christ in 3D and how this goes a long way to demonstrate that 3D printed art is coming of age.
Pinshape, one of the largest and altogether best 3D printable model sharing marketplace is shutting down, very likely for ever, on March 31st. Usually I try to find a positive aspect to all news concerning 3D printing because I am confident 3D printing is the future of all manufacturing at all levels. However, this time, there is not much to go on.
Desamanera SRL, a 3D Printing Business Directory Featured Company, has signed an exclusi ...
Do3D Innovations, manufacturers of the Genesis (G1) DLP 3D printer, are introducing the revolutionary MAP™ (Multidirectional Additive Production) technology in their Squarewave prototype DLP-SLA 3D printer. This revolutionary, patent pending approach can improve 3D printing speeds by up to 200% or more by enabling the process to take place on both sides of the build plate at the same time. Multidirectional 3D printing is compatible with powder, liquid resin and even thermopolymer filament based processes.
Exactly two years ago, on March 27 2014, in what seems like ancient history in 3D printing evolution time, I wrote an article about videogame industry leader Valve’s desire to release a customizable Steam’s new 3D printable controller for its online gaming platform. Exactly two years later Valve has done just that but the “weird” approach that videogame companies and videogame media take toward 3D printing – in that they seem to want to ignore it as much as possible – has not changed a bit.
Ever since the low cost 3D printing industry exploded as a consumer phenomenon (because it has, hype or no hype), it became clear that some of the most fascinating and important applications were in the care for small groups of people with specific requirements. In few of these the benefits have been clear than in 3D printing for the blind.
Last week, the Open Hardware Platform Wevolver won the prestigious “3-DIY” Interactive Innovation ...