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3D Printing In The Jewelry Industry

3D Printing In The Jewelry Industry

Charles R. Goulding and Peter Favata take a look at rising jewelry sales and new ways of making jewelry.

Design of the Week: Battle Droid

Design of the Week: Battle Droid

This week’s selection is the life-size Battle Droid by Droid Division.

Question of the Week: Can I 3D Print A House?

Question of the Week: Can I 3D Print A House?

This week’s question is about construction 3D printing.

Pentagon Robot Technology Leapfrogging

Pentagon Robot Technology Leapfrogging

Charles R. Goulding and Ryan Donley consider the Pentagon’s leadership in robotics, and where 3D printing plays a role.

New Recycled Flexible Filament From Recreus

New Recycled Flexible Filament From Recreus

Recreus has introduced the first recycled flexible 3D printer filament.

Metal 3D Printing Powders Consolidation: ALTANA Completes TLS Acquisition

Metal 3D Printing Powders Consolidation: ALTANA Completes TLS Acquisition

ALTANA has completed its acquisition of TLS, focusing on the metal 3D printing powder market.

peel 2-S Handheld 3D Scanner Announced

peel 2-S Handheld 3D Scanner Announced

Peel 3D announced the peel 2-S handheld 3D scanner.

Chemical Recycling Of Plastics And 3D Printing

Chemical Recycling Of Plastics And 3D Printing

Charles R. Goulding and Joseph Castine examine the role of plastics recycling efforts in impacting 3D printing materials availability and pricing.

CREO-Tive Solution Boosts Nature in Urban Areas

CREO-Tive Solution Boosts Nature in Urban Areas

Aristotle stated that “Man is by nature a social animal.” However, social distancing due to COVID-19 has turned us into increasingly sedentary animals.

AMUG To Host 2021 Conference In Person

AMUG To Host 2021 Conference In Person

I’ve been thinking about AMUG's decision to host their 2021 event in person only a few months from now.

Fictiv’s New Investment

Fictiv’s New Investment

Fictiv announced yet another massive investment into their manufacturing network.

Stratasys Acquires RPS!

Stratasys Acquires RPS!

Stratasys continues in targeted 3D printing M&A, today announcing that it is acquiring UK-based RPS.

Mercedes To Spin-Off $35 Billion Truck Division

Mercedes To Spin-Off $35 Billion Truck Division

Charles R. Goulding and Peter Favata consider how 3D printing will come into play for Mercedes’ soon-to-be spun off truck division.

Engrave Everything With The Extremely Portable LaserPecker 2

3D Printed Alt-Meat Coming Soon: Redefine Meat Lands Major Investment

3D Printed Alt-Meat Coming Soon: Redefine Meat Lands Major Investment

Redefine Meat has scored a whopper of an investment with a new Series A round.

Triditive Fueled Up For Automated Additive Manufacturing

Triditive Fueled Up For Automated Additive Manufacturing

Triditive Additive Manufacturing has closed a major investment round.

EnvisionTEC, A Desktop Metal Company

EnvisionTEC, A Desktop Metal Company

As anticipated, today it’s official: EnvisionTEC is a Desktop Metal company following the close of the latest major 3D printing acquisition.

Implications Of NIST’s $4 Million Support For Metal Additive Manufacturing

Implications Of NIST’s $4 Million Support For Metal Additive Manufacturing

At the end of 2020, the NIST awarded almost $4 million in grants supporting metal 3D printing measurement methods and standards.

Sherry Handel: “Additive Manufacturing’s Sustainability Benefits Are Often Less Well-Understood”

Sherry Handel: “Additive Manufacturing’s Sustainability Benefits Are Often Less Well-Understood”

Sherry Handel is the Executive Director at the Additive Manufacturer Green Trade Association (AMGTA), and our Women in 3D Printing Guest #266!

SABIC And Additive Manufacturing

SABIC And Additive Manufacturing

Charles R. Goulding and Peter Favata consider SABIC’s contributions to industrial 3D printing.

MakerBot’s Metal 3D Printing Option

MakerBot’s Metal 3D Printing Option

MakerBot announced a new way to 3D print metal on their equipment.

Formlabs Rounds Out Their Dental 3D Printing Portfolio

Formlabs Rounds Out Their Dental 3D Printing Portfolio

Formlabs announced a new resin for their dental 3D printing portfolio, making it an even more powerful option for dentists.

Stratasys Broadens Carbon Fiber Capabilities

Stratasys Broadens Carbon Fiber Capabilities

Stratasys announced a new carbon fiber material for use in their F123 series 3D printers.

Book of the Week: Artificial Intelligence Revolution

Book of the Week: Artificial Intelligence Revolution

This week’s selection is “Artificial Intelligence Revolution: how AI Will Change Our Society, Economy and Culture” by Robin Li.

The Institute For Advanced Learning And Research Sets The Bar High With A $25.5 Million Center For Manufacturing Advancement

The Institute For Advanced Learning And Research Sets The Bar High With A $25.5 Million Center For Manufacturing Advancement

The Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR) has built a Center for Manufacturing Advancement (CMA) that spans 51,250 square feet on the IALR campus.

Dassault Systèmes And EOS Collaborate To Improve Additive Manufacturing Digital Workflow

Dassault Systèmes And EOS Collaborate To Improve Additive Manufacturing Digital Workflow

Leveraging their 3DEXPERIENCE platform, Dassault Systèmes has been developing a set of dedicated applications for Powder Bed additive manufacturing processes, from design to build job preparation and simulation.

Purdue Investigating Methods To Enhance Construction 3D Printing?

Purdue Investigating Methods To Enhance Construction 3D Printing?

A news release from Purdue University indicates the institution has been quietly developing new methods of automated construction.

SynDaver Launches Axi 2 Desktop 3D Printer

Design of the Week: Tourbillon Mechanica

Design of the Week: Tourbillon Mechanica

This week’s selection is the Tourbillon Mechanica by Dan / @Mechanistic.

Software For Self-Built 3D Scanners?

Software For Self-Built 3D Scanners?

Polyga is offering powerful software that can be used with self-built 3D scanners.

3D Printing Hunting Equipment

3D Printing Hunting Equipment

Charles R. Goulding and Peter Favata gather 3D printing ideas for hunters.

MIT’s LaserFactory: One Step To Produce Functional Objects

MIT’s LaserFactory: One Step To Produce Functional Objects

MIT has developed a device that can literally produce a fully functional object in one step, with no human intervention.

Xact Metal Makes Major Step Forward With GoEngineer Partnership

Satori Assisting Artists With 3D Print Technology

Satori Assisting Artists With 3D Print Technology

Satori described an innovation collaboration with designer Ganit Goldstein.

3D Printing For The Two-Way Electric Smart Grid

3D Printing For The Two-Way Electric Smart Grid

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi consider upcoming 3D printing applications in a change to the power grid.

Tackling Food Insecurity Through Urban Farming Technology

3D Printed IKEA Designs Bring Some Magic To Home Sound Systems!

3D Printed IKEA Designs Bring Some Magic To Home Sound Systems!

IKEA and Teenage Engineering have come up with a stylish audio and light system collection that can be downloaded and 3D printed!

Lost Air Casting: From Popsicles To Ironworks

Lost Air Casting: From Popsicles To Ironworks

Janne Kyttanen’s 3D printed popsicle process is a lot more powerful than I realized.

3D Print Materials Count: A Field Test Of Lightweight PLA

3D Print Materials Count: A Field Test Of Lightweight PLA

An RC flyer has performed a very real test of a lightweight 3D printing materials.

Supply Chain Constraints And 3D Printing

Supply Chain Constraints And 3D Printing

Charles R. Goulding and Ryan Donley consider how 3D printing can help overcome large companies' supply chain woes.

Ian Davis Shows Off His Two-Fingered, Ninja Turtle Hand Prosthetic

Ian Davis Shows Off His Two-Fingered, Ninja Turtle Hand Prosthetic

We’ve all seen how prosthetics help folks with missing limbs, but we don’t always get to see them made by the same people who wear them.

Stratasys Expands J8 Series Of 3D Printers

Stratasys Expands J8 Series Of 3D Printers

The newest addition to the J8 lineup of PolyJet 3D printers is the enterprise-class J850 Pro.

SOLIDWORKS For Students And Makers Coming Later This Year

SOLIDWORKS For Students And Makers Coming Later This Year

Dassault Systèmes announced some changes to SOLIDWORKS pricing that will be of interest to both students and makers.

3D Printing Accessible Designs Helps Private Findings Stay Private

3D Printing Accessible Designs Helps Private Findings Stay Private

Designs for accessibility can be rethought with 3D printing so something as personal as a pregnancy test can stay private.

Commercial Construction 3D Printing Erupting In The US

Commercial Construction 3D Printing Erupting In The US

Three announcements foreshadow increased construction 3D printing in the US.

The 3D Printing Industry And AI/Machine Learning

The 3D Printing Industry And AI/Machine Learning

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi consider a few examples of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and 3D printing combining for more powerful solutions.

Are Partnerships With Chemical Companies Required For 3D Printer Manufacturers?

Are Partnerships With Chemical Companies Required For 3D Printer Manufacturers?

I’ve been looking at several material announcements lately from 3D printer manufacturers and am noticing a trend.

Rapidia-ExOne Deal Shows Challenges And Opportunities

Rapidia-ExOne Deal Shows Challenges And Opportunities

The partnership involving ExOne and Rapidia highlights some of the problems in 3D printing these days.

3D Control Systems Announces ZAP

3D Control Systems Announces ZAP

3D Control Systems formally announced their new ZAP system today.

Roboze Introduces Flexible Subscription 3D Printing Plan

Roboze Introduces Flexible Subscription 3D Printing Plan

Roboze announced a unique method of using their equipment: by subscription.