3D printing news

This week’s Top 5 videos of the week are an interesting one. Some very innovative companies have created videos articulating how their new printers, processes, or structures will revolutionise industries. In addition, these companies pledge to use these to do…

Surgeons from France’s Amiens-Picardie University have used 3D printing alongside a robot to successfully perform surgery on a boy’s spine. The boy, 6, had been suffering from severe progressive scoliosis coupled with infantile spinal amyotraphy, rendering him unable to even…

After the success of BQ’s first Witbox printer, the Spanish brand has released the second version, Witbox 2. Known for its A4 format printing, the first version of the Witbox was released back in 2013, with the second version released…

For those who still have the mindset that 3D printing is an industry with huge barriers to entry, controlled by big companies with even bigger pockets, this might change your mind. This tiny 3D printer, made in San Diego by…

Ahead of Houston Maker Faire 2017, we spoke to Andrew Lynch, one of the many people behind making this event happen. Houston Maker Faire runs from the 21st to the 22nd of October 2017. To find out more information about…

Body Labs have announced that Amazon have acquired the start-up for an undisclosed amount. TechCrunch however have reported that the figure Amazon paid is between $50-70M. Body Labs are a start-up from New York that incorporate body scanning into 3D…

In another huge step towards fully 3D-printed rocket engines, NASA has successfully tested an igniter prototype made from two metal alloys. Engineers at NASA have been hard at work to produce this component using a new method of laser printing. As…

Valve, the company behind the Dota, Half-life, Portal and Left 4 Dead series’, has partnered with Shapeways to allow fans to reproduce and sell merchandise and figures from their favourite games. 3D printing is a very disruptive technology. It is…

Our top 5 videos of the week showcase the week’s most interesting videos in relation to 3D-printing. We endeavour to find the most exciting, ambitious, or interesting updates, to summarise for you every week. So enjoy our list for this…

Researchers at Massey University have successfully made a new 3D-printer. This printer is special: it can 3D-print new corneas, which can then be used to transplant them into humans. The best part? The printer creates these new corneas from fish scales.…

Mars is a long way away. At its closest, it’s 54.6 million kilometres away (9 months travel). At it’s furthest? 401 million km. This creates some problems for a manned landing, problems we are currently trying to solve. One of…

As summer starts coming to a close, we decided to mark this with a test of the Chinese printer Winbo SH105.  Little known to the general public, the brand offers around 19 different FDM machines, with prices ranging from $199…