Whitney Hipolite

GlobalFSD Leaps Across the Pond, Bringing Filament Sampling to US Soil

With the growing number of filament manufacturers and filament brands coming to market over the past few years comes an uncertainty of which to choose from for that important 3D…

MecklerMedia Announces Acquisition of 3DPrint.com & Creates the First Worldwide Advertising Network for Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing

MecklerMedia Corporation (OTCQX: MECK) today announced that in conjunction with New York-based Sagamore III LLC it has purchased 3DPrint.com and related assets from Forum Advertising LLC of Cape Coral, Florida…

SMU Unveils Video of Unique LBDMD Metal 3D Printing Process Using 6-axis Robot

Some may say that metal 3D printing is what will ultimately bring the technology to the forefront of manufacturing. The idea of printing custom objects on a one-to-one basis brings…

A Look at Taulman 3D’s Continued Innovation Within the 3D Printing Filament Market

With the sheer number of 3D printer models now available, one would think, there should certainly be a “best printer”. But as those us who follow 3DPrint.com know, while there are certainly…

LaserHacker 3D Prints a Working Power Transformer with Proto-pasta’s Magnetic Iron Filament

While many innovators and inventors are trying to come up with new ideas for enhanced 3D printer hardware, the true advancements in 3D printing will occur within the material space….

Magic of Magnets: You Can Now 3D Print Your Own Anti-Gravitator to Amaze Your Friends

3D printing is a technology that can be quite amazing and fun to watch. In fact, my lineup of 3D printers have become somewhat of a pastime when it comes…

You Can Now 3D Print a Rubber Band Powered Car

The ideas of inventing, innovating and “making” are usually tied to individuals with an extreme creative side to them. Over the course of history, only those with will power, determination…

Fred the Tortoise Receives a 3D Printed Shell After a Horrific Fire Destroys His Original

One of my favorite reasons for covering the 3D printing space is the fact that I get to report on some really inspiring stories. I’m an animal lover and love…

Students in China Develop a Low Cost Cake 3D Printer

If you go back just a mere 3-4 years, when someone would mention 3D printing, the first thing that would come to mind would be “rapid prototyping”. However, in the…

University in Taiwan is 3D Printing Prosthetic Body Parts for Animals at Just 1/30th the Cost

I remember when I was about 6 or 7 years old, and my best friend’s dog gave birth to a litter of puppies. There was one puppy that unfortunately was born…

Oxford Performance Materials Gains FDA Approval for 3D Printed Spinal Implants

Suddenly 3D printed spinal implants seem to be gaining quite a bit of traction. Just last week, we reported on a German company named joimax®, who had just gained FDA…

3D Printing Human Rights: Refugee Open Ware Looks to Bring FabLabs to Conflict Zones

Many of us living in the developed world often take for granted just how good we have it. Oftentimes we tune into the nightly news and see devastating photos of refugees…

Japanese Company Allows You to Generate 3D Printable Models from Animated Videos

There are plenty of ways to obtain 3D printable models. You can use a 3D scanner to capture exactly what you want, you can download them from websites like 3DShare,…

These 3D Printable Tools Help You Understand Infill Percentages, Number of Shells and More

There are a lot of concepts within the desktop 3D printing space which sometimes are a bit complicated to understand. For example, what does a 40% infill density look like…

Peter Pancake – a Pancake 3D Printer That is Catching on in China

We’ve sees 3D printers which can print in plastics, metals, concrete, silicon, and just about everything else. This even includes pancake batter. There are several 3D printers currently available on the…

Car Manufacturer MINI Sends a 3D Printed MINI Cooper to Space as Thousands Watch

Back in December of last year, MINI unveiled a launch of “Galactic Proportion,” as they not only launched their new MINI Cooper 5-door hatch vehicle, but they actually launched it…

Beijing University Unveils Enormous 3D Printed Aircraft Frames & More, Created with SLS Technology

We’ve known for quite some time that various aircraft parts have been and continue to be fabricated with the help of additive manufacturing (3D printing). However, this week at a Science…

Ethiopian Man, Shot in the Face, Receives 3D Printed Titanium Mandible Implant

3D printing seems as though it is becoming rather commonplace within hospitals in China as of late. Perhaps it’s the country’s willingness to share these various stories with the media,…

3D Printed Guided Missiles are Now a Reality Thanks to Raytheon

Raytheon is a company that has been around for over 90 years, providing defense weaponry, missile guidance systems, and more to the United States Military. In fact, they are the…

3-Year-Old with Extremely Large Head Receives Groundbreaking Skull Replacement Surgery

Surgeons and medical experts in China really seem to be on a roll lately when it comes to 3D printing medical implants. Over the past few weeks we’ve reported on…

#RememberShafilea: Honor Killing Victim Shafilea Ahmed Remembered Through 3D Printed Sculpture Linked to Tweets

Back in September of 2003, a young woman by the name of Shafilea Ahmed was murdered by her parents, Iftikhar and Farzana Ahmed, for the mere fact that she refused…

Chinese Researchers 3D Print Rabbit & Goat Bones for Implantation Using Bone Powder & Bio-glue

You can mark my words that one day we will see entirely 3D printed organs, bones, and other bodily tissues implanted into human beings. Perhaps it won’t be for another…

AMRC Fully Embeds Electronics Within 3D Printed SLA Objects with 3D Systems Projet 6000 Printer

A lot has been made about the 3D printing of electronics. As 3D printing technology has progressed over the past couple of years, we have begun to see both 3D…

3D Printed EndoLif Fusion Implant for Spinal Surgeries Receives FDA Approval

If you were to read our site on a consistent basis, you would begin to think that China was leading the way in 3D printed medical breakthroughs. This is simply…