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Open Design Stereolithography with sLAMPS
With over a week left to go, the indiegogo project to create a low cost Stereolithographic 3d printer has already exceeded its funding goals. Much like Kickstarter, indiegogo gives inventors access to crowdsourced funding. Justin Hawkins started the project to create … Continue reading
3d Printing to a Vending Machine
Will everyone have a personal 3d printer in their home, or will they use service centers? Dreambox envisions people queuing prints to a local vending machine. You’d upload the design to the website or pick from a marketplace. Then your print … Continue reading
Soluble Support Material with Dual Extruders – HIPS
A Rhode Island 3d printing meetup has been experimenting with printing dissolvable support structures on consumer grade 3d printers. They found that a material called High Impact Polystyrene (HIPS) can be dissolved in a chemical bath of Limonene, while leaving … Continue reading
3d Printed Meat CEO Interview on Reddit
Andras Forgacs, CEO of Modern Meadows just finished a “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit with updates on their 3d printed meat research. We explored 3d printed meat back when Modern Meadows was just getting preliminary results, and they’ve now successfully … Continue reading
3d Print a New Skull
Patients with severe skull injuries can have their bone structure imaged and have a custom implant 3d printed that fits perfectly with their existing bone structure. The FDA has just approved the 3d printed skull implants from Oxford Performance Materials. … Continue reading
Copyright and 3d Printing
With rumors that startup Fabulonia has technology to combat the problems of copyright in 3d printing, we wanted to define the central copyright issue of 3d printing. What are people most concerned about with copyright and 3d printing? What is … Continue reading
Draw in the Air with 3Doodler
If you’ve decided you hate the precision of 3d printing and you want a shaky, hand drawn mess of plastic filament instead, the 3Doodler is for you. The 3Doodler is a bare extruder ripped from the typical 3d printer control … Continue reading
3d Systems Teams with Creaform
3d Systems is following the path we predicted when they acquired Geomagic and announced a new design tool created in cooperation with Creaform called Go!Model. The design tool fills a gap in the market for entry level scanning software. Go!Model is … Continue reading
List of 3d Printing Stocks
If on January 1st you made a portfolio of the pure play 3d printing stocks, you would have had a 22% gain by now. In comparison, the S&P500 returned 4%. What qualifies as a 3d printing stock? Stocks with most … Continue reading
Urbee 2 – Car With 3d Printed Body
What did you picture cars would look like when you were a kid? Streamlined, sleek, with futurist aerodynamic lines. The Urbee is that car. A two passenger hybrid car, designed for the future, and 3d printed.