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New Balance and Nervous System Collaborate to Make Great Running

The popular footwear company New Balance is going full force into the realm of 3D print and design, having already announced that they are equipping their new running shoe line with 3D printed midsoles, following suit with their competitor Adidas and their own 3D printed Futurecraft insoles. Furthering their material investment in 3D printing, New…

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Designer Shapes 3D Printed Architecture with GPU Computing

After completing his training in Istanbul a half-dozen years ago, Daghan Cam, now a teaching fellow at the University College London’s Bartlett School of Architecture, came to England to combine architecture-driven algorithmic designs with 3D printing technology. Cam has geared his talent and knowledge towards manufacturing architecture as art, focusing on implementing complex and abstract…

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The Dobot Kickstarter Campaign Offers Free 3D Printing Pen

Recently a Kickstarter campaign called “Dobot”(Robot Arm) catches people’s eyes. The people who invented the “Dobot: Robotic Arm for Everyone, Arduino and Open Source” wanted to raise a mere $36,000 by November 4, 2015, and guess what happened? With 15 more days to go they have raised a whopping 982% of their funding goal! That’s $353,599 (and counting)…

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World’s Largest 3D Printed Structure Unveiled in Beijing

WASP may have just shown the world its enormous house 3D printer and Branch Technology has printed the tallest sculpture in the US, but, at Beijing Design Week 2015, a giant structure was unveiled with a name as epic as its size.  The VULCAN pavilion, currently being displayed in Beijing’s Parkview Green, is a massive…

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3D Systems Cooperates with Pennsylvania State University for R&D of Direct Metal 3D Printing

3D Systems has announced a partnership with the Pennsylvania State University to research and further develop direct metal printing technology. The research will take place at the Center for Innovative Materials Processing through Direct Digital Deposition, which acts as Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s official demonstration facility for additive manufacturing technology. In addition to DARPA,…

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Change Your Smartphone into a 3D Scanning Turntable

A new UK-based startup, 3D Smart Company, Ltd., has come out with an innovative and easy-to-use device that, combined with a smartphone, will allow users to scan small objects in 3D, as well as take pictures or shoot 360° time lapse videos. The device is not only useful for photographers or 3D printer users, but also…