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3d Systems Buys Geomagic
3d printing giant 3d Systems is getting a little bigger. They announced today they will buy Geomagic, Inc. Geomagic provides high quality tools for converting 3d scans to printable content. Their Geomagic Studio is the top product for reverse engineering … Continue reading
3d Printed Christmas Cookies
via hackaday Instead of using plastics, the Unfold design studio uses cookie dough to 3d print their holiday cookies. The 3d printer prints the cookie dough directly onto wax paper, which they cook until delicious. They seem to be using … Continue reading
3d Printed Sounds – Nirvana meets Objet
It sounds like a wax cylinder recording – muffled and full of static, but the 3d printed record clearly sounds like Nirvana. Amanda Ghassaei 3d printed the record using a high resolution Objet printer after creating the model with the … Continue reading
Twikit: Startup 3d Prints Your Awards
Another day, another new 3d printing startup. Twikit, a startup out of Belgium, lets you create 3d printed awards. Five different award styles let you input your custom text, then print it. A WebGL window shows the custom design as … Continue reading
3d Print Your House in a Day
You might be able to 3d print your house sometime in the next decade. Contour Crafting, a company formed by a USC Professor has scaled up the standard 3d printer layout to make a build platform big enough for the … Continue reading
Review of 3d Touch 3d Printer
A high quality build, but for the price, the system takes too much tweaking to get great prints. Priced in the high prosumer range at $3,930 to $4,370, this printer started with from a RepRap model before switching over to … Continue reading
A 3d Printer In Every House, or in Every Town?
An argument running through the 3d printing news that keeps coming up is whether 3d printing, when it becomes mainstream, will be in every house or in shops. The more people say 3d printers will be in every house, the … Continue reading
3d Printed Meat
Will the new year bring in 3d printed meat? Earlier this year, billionaire Peter Theils invested a six figure sum in Modern Meadows, a company developing technology to create synthetic meats and leather. The company has a grant from the … Continue reading
Completely Plastic 3d Printed Guns Are Illegal
A few days after the news broke that a 3d Printed Assault Rifle part was tested, Representative Steve Israel urged congress to renew a bill called the Undetectable Firearms Act. Passed in 1988 and renewed by Bush, the act makes … Continue reading