African 3D Printing – A $100 3D Printer Made From Waste
Togo in West Africa is one of the last places you'd expect to find a maker space—a workshop where inventors and tinkerers can work on new projects to their heart's content. But inside the capital city of Lome, there's a maker space. Woelab bills itself as "Africa's...
3D Printing and the Retail Trend – Can We 3D Print Some Customers?
In what looks to be more good news for MakerBot, a partnership with Staples will bring their MakerBot 3D Printing Ecosystem, which includes their Replicator 3D Printers and Digitizer 3D Scanners, to 50 select Staples retail locations in 18 different states...
3D Printing And Mainstream TV – The Good Wife Takes On The Legal Issues of 3D Printing
by Bill Decker I admit it. I watch The Good Wife. But this last episode was about my industry- 3D Printing. In the episode a designer puts an open source CAD drawing of a plastic gun on line. The file is downloaded, the gun goes off, their is an accident and a...
Personal Fabrication Machines Make “Homemade” Digitally
Bill Decker, chairman of the Association of 3D Printing, observed that 3D printing will "democratize manufacturing," but wondered whether "people really want these machines in their home for one-off projects." Decker said consumers may balk at the "smell, mess, and...
3D Printers Will Revolutionize Education
Miguel Almena talks about how 3D printers will revolutionize learning and education... 3D Printing MBA - This course is designed for firms and entrepreneurs that are more interested in the business aspect of 3D Printing... Where are the opportunities? Where are the...
Canon 3D Printing Market Entrant – 3D Printing Industry Joint Ventures
Canon announced today that they are entering the 3D Printing market....though the way they are doing it seems unusual. Canon has reached a deal with 3D Systems to distribute their 3D Printers in select countries in Europe as well as Japan. Today's is that Canon...
3D Printing Hearts – 3D Printing Industry Saves Hearts!
Now, medicine is exploring how 3-D printing can help doctors learn and do their jobs. Doctors at the University of Michigan, for example, used devices made with 3-D printing to install in a baby's heart. Some researchers are working on printers that create human...
International Business Slide Show – 3D Printing Businesses Need To Know About Global Markets
Global Business slide show: Top 10 "Ain'ts" of International Business from Bill Decker So what this means is simple...look at the international business lessons. We are clearly in an industry that defies borders. But does it defy culture, customs and...
Is 3D Printing Dead? Did the Stock Market Finally Say “Enough is Enough?”
What is happening to the 3D Printing Stock Market? Is the honeymoon over? Is 3d Printing dead? Is this another dotcom bust? Is the fun over? Well, the industry is hardly "over." But back in the internet days, there was an expression: B2C - which means "business to...
3D Printing Slide Show – Top 10 Trends in the 3D Printing Industry for 2015
10 Trends in 3D Printing For 2015 from Bill Decker Here is a quick slide show about 3D Printing trends for the coming year. We predict more of the same, and a lot of different things to happen in 3D Printing!
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