by Bill Decker | Aug 13, 2013 | Engineering, Media
This new industry is changing the way one of the oldest artifacts exists – mummies aren’t getting poked and prodded anymore! Instead, they’re scanned into a digital design – then 3D-printed mummy models can be made. What will 3D printing do...
by Bill Decker | Aug 11, 2013 | Media
Here is the new Ebook “How to 3D Print Money” taking the number 2 ranking in google. Two founders of the Association of 3D Printing co-wrote this book. It is available for kindle, nook, ipad, or any...
by Bill Decker | Aug 11, 2013 | Announcements, Business
MakerBot has been test-offering its 3D printers in select Microsoft stores, and they have passed with flying colors. Next up – Microsoft stocking 3D printers nationwide to show off this incredible technology in kiosk-type form. “It’s hard to imagine people...
by Bill Decker | Aug 9, 2013 | International, Legal
A man who works in manufacturing in Canada made a 3D-printed rifle that can shoot 14 rounds. The rifle isn’t going to win any contests for quickest gun, but it doesn’t have to if the goal is just to shoot something successfully. For now, a $35,000 printer...
by Bill Decker | Aug 7, 2013 | Ideas, International
Working with Belgian company Materialise’s technology, a Dutch designer created the 3D-printed dress below. What if you could print your own clothes? With Materialise’s Magics software, you can. Say goodbye to long hours nursing the sewing machine –...
by Bill Decker | Aug 5, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas, Uncategorized
A man in New Zealand is designing and printing his own car by printing and combining separate parts. “The 3D printing should be finished in October, a mold/body cast will probably be a year after that and the final road legal vehicle, as a complete guess, will...
by Bill Decker | Aug 3, 2013 | Business
3D printing is coming to stores near you! (If you live in San Diego.) UPS is integrating 3D printing services into its retail locations in the San Diego area, and will do the same in other locations, depending on this inclusion’s success. What corporation will...
by Bill Decker | Aug 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
A funded project at Kickstarter gives us one of the very first affordable 3D printers, called the Buccaneer. It is “the most affordable, fully assembled 3D printer in the world.” The team that created it has even thought of usability! Users can design...
by Bill Decker | Aug 1, 2013 | Manufacturing
Soon we may be seeing a 3D-printed shift knob in Ford’s stickshift...
by Bill Decker | Jul 30, 2013 | Engineering, Ideas
There is new method of 3D printing called “freeform,” which doesn’t print support structures along with the needed object (unlike this one). It is well-exemplified by a new 3D freeform printer from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in...
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