News — 3d printing

Taken from 3D Print. by Scott J Grunewald I have a sort of fascination with what most people would consider mundane uses for 3D printing. You show me some 3D printed knobs for a stove or a 3D printed clip for a backpack and I want to know everything about it. It isn’t so much that mundane things are especially interesting to me, but when 3D printing is used for things that seem simple or boring, I think it reveals what is truly amazing about the technology. Just like anyone, I’m excited when I read about 3D printed components finding...

Taken from TechRadar By Alastair Jennings Zortrax is quickly establishing itself as a 3D printer manufacturer to be reckoned with. The M200 printer started life as a Kickstarter campaign and rose to prominence when Dell ordered 5,000 units. Dell and many other backers of the campaign had obviously seen something in this startup that had piqued interest, and it only takes a short time with the M200 to realise why Zortrax has been set apart from many other 3D printer manufacturers that have appeared on Kickstarter.     The design bases itself around a movable X, Y direct feed print-head,...

Taken from NJ.com By Emily Cummins RARITAN TWP.— Celebrating Teen Tech Week with their second Teen Tech Fair Thursday, Hunterdon Central Regional High School students got to play a Theremin, fly drones, make 3D printed bracelets and explored virtual reality with an Oculus. The high school's library, called the Instructional Media Center, was filled with stations for digital and technology based learning from students, teachers and local businesses.  "We have radio, TV, holograms, coding, Barnes and Noble, robotics and the Hunterdon Medical Center, and the goal is to really spark interest by showing the media center is more than a place...

Taken from Times of Malta Senior 2 students at Mater Boni Consilii St Joseph School, Paola, are being introduced to the basics of 3D designing, using 3D builder software provided to the school by Microsoft. During a series of workshops they are designing keychains using the software and then seeing them being printed. The students also had the opportunity to use the latest 3D printing apps on educational tablet computers provided to the school by Microsoft. Entire article here.

Taken from 3D Print. by Michael A. Parker In just a few short years Maker Faire NY has transformed from a stepchild to Maker Faire San Francisco to flagship status, perhaps even becoming a larger festival than the original. And 3D printing played a large role in that transformation. Those first couple years saw an abundance of laser cut wood hobbyist machines, back when MakerBot was open source and the Cupcake was seen as a cutting-edge desktop machine. How times have changed. What was once a field dominated by domestic products now is seeing manufacturers from Italy, the Netherlands, China...