The rise of 3D printing and rapid prototyping has many people thinking about one day replicating something in their home. Service companies, like Shapeways, Thingiverse and RedEye, exist to get models into the hands of printer owners but there is another way… create it yourself. To take an idea from napkin sketch to 3D part file […]
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I posted here recently about a new mobile 3D scanner that appeared on KickStarter as well as at Engadget’s Expand. Moedls was one of the finalists of the Engadget Insert Coin competition and after meeting at the show I had a chance to trade a few emails with the Founder, John Fehr. John is busy
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All the recent news coverage and developments in additive manufacturing have been a huge boon to the investors in the leading companies. I have written here before about some of this growth but now there is a new player entering the space. ExOne is set to release their first earnings report this Thursday so I
The ecosystem of 3D printers is poised to grow as each printer finds its niche market. To do this advances must be made in the modeling and design software so that novice users can create things for 3D printing. Desktop printing benefited from the rise of word processing and desktop publishing software. Most mid-sized and large offices
Last weekend I had the opportunity to attend Engadget first ever “Engadget Expand” conference. Billed as event “designed from the ground up for technology fans” it seemed like a perfect fit. Before the event I went through all of the videos for the included Insert Coin competition, read up on the various speakers and exhibitors,
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A lot of the recent posts here deal with 3D printing but that is only half of the new industrial revolution. The other half is creating models for printing. What if creating a cool model was as easy as taking a picture with an iPhone? That is the goal of a new Kickstarter campaign Moedls.
I have attended lots of conferences before, for the Manufacturing, Toy, and CAD industries but never a pure tech conference. This weekend Engadget is putting on their first ever “Engadget Expand” that I was lucky enough to grab a pass to. The San Francisco setting allows the trip will be parlayed into a quick excursion
Additive manufacturing machines, or 3D printers, are being hailed as the next industrial revolution, but what are they? To understand the various types of AM machines and their capabilities take a closer look at some of the more popular models. Each of the devices below was developed by separate OEMs (although at least one has
Formlabs was founded by a handful of top engineers who realized that additive manufacturing was an amazing technology that still was unattainable for so many people. To fix that problem they decided to drive down the barrier to entry and went with the relatively new funding technique of crowd sourcing through Kickstarter. When they launched they had
In early 2009 a handful of interested parties were creating kits that could be assembled into 3D printers. RepRap, the original organization, was a non-profit group that met to discuss and advance the interests of it’s members. Not unlike the groups in silicon valley that met to dicuss personal computing, the groups that ultimately led
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