9 Best Articles in 2021
Backchannel
The 3D Printing Revolution That Wasn’t
Backchannel
20+ min read · 36 saves · From 2016 · MakerBot made a bold bet that 3D printers would become as common as microwaves. Just one problem: no one else shared that dream.
shapeways.com
Shapeways - 3D Printing Service and Marketplace
shapeways.com
20 saves · From 2013 · Design, Prototype, Buy and Sell custom products at Shapeways; The world's largest online 3D Printing Service, Community and Marketplace.
makerbot.com
3D Printing Resources and Tools
makerbot.com
1 min read · 15 saves · From 2013 · MakerBot is leading the next industrial revolution in desktop 3D printing for professional, educational, and home use.
New Atlas
100x faster, 10x cheaper: 3D metal printing is about to go mainstream
New Atlas
6 min read · 39 saves · From 2017 · Desktop Metal - remember the name. This Massachussetts company is preparing to turn manufacturing on its head, with a 3D metal printing system that's so much faster, safer and cheaper than existing…
WIRED
3D Printing Can Keep Aging Air Force Aircraft Flying
WIRED
3 min read · 22 saves · 2019-12-07 · Alex Davies · And the military wants you—to help it make spare parts for decades-old B-52 bombers and other planes.
Biz Carson
3D printing finally found its market, and all it took was a pandemic
Biz Carson
6 min read · 15 saves · 2020-05-05 · When COVID-19 disrupted supply chains, 3D printing stepped in to fill the gap. Will it stick around once the dust has settled?
Farnam Street
Memory and the Printing Press
Farnam Street
5 min read · 12 saves · From 2017 · We appreciate the benefits of the spread of information by the printing press, but we do appreciate how it's changed our relationship with our own memory?
Singularity Hub
5 Big Breakthroughs to Anticipate in 3D Printing
Singularity Hub
3 min read · 17 saves · 2019-04-08 · Recently, groundbreaking stereolithography methods have succeeded in producing complex shapes at up to 100 times the speed of traditional 3D printers.
In Future
MIT Technology Review
Is 3D printing the future of battery design?
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · 24 saves · 2019-12-22 · The technology promises smaller, more capable batteries that can be integrated into products—and, perhaps, designed with recycling in mind.
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Nature
High-resolution 3D printing in seconds
Nature
5 min read · 2020-12-23 · Polymerization at intersecting light beams enables rapid 3D printing.
Digital Trends
The Future of 3D Printing and Fabrication with Formlabs
Digital Trends
3 min read · Jan 14th · Drew Prindle · Change is coming to 3D printing. After a big burst of innovation and creativity on the hardware side, many are now shifting focus to materials engineering.
Boing Boing
How open source designs and 3D-printing make prosthetics more accessible
Boing Boing
2 min read · 2020-12-17 · Thom Dunn · Vice France has a great new article about the ways that 3D printing is disrupting the prosthetic limb industry. While a standard upper-body prosthetic can cost anywhere from $5,000 to $120,000, the…
Ars Technica
These tires work better in snow thanks to 3D printing
Ars Technica
1 min read · 13 saves · 2020-12-21 · Jonathan M. Gitlin · Additive manufacturing helps create 3D "sipes" that open and close as you drive.
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NASA
3D Printing and the Future of Aeronautics
NASA
18 saves · 2019-08-19 · Yvette Smith · Today is National Aviation Day and progress is ongoing in the next evolution of air mobility – all thanks to emerging 3D printing technology.
In Space
Curiosity Rover
Visions of the Future
Curiosity Rover
1 min read · 158 saves · From 2016 · Fourteen space travel posters of colorful, exotic space settings are now available free for downloading and printing.
WIRED
3-D Printing Is the Future of Factories (for Real This Time)
WIRED
7 min read · 19 saves · From 2018 · A technology that for years has been good for making prototypes and tchotchkes promises to usher in a new industrial revolution.
In Biology
Futurism
Scientists are printing living "xenobots" out of biological cells
Futurism
1 min read · 135 saves · 2020-04-03
Quartz
3D printing will explode in 2014, thanks to the expiration of key patents
Quartz
3 min read · 20 saves · From 2017 · Here's what's holding back 3D printing, the technology that's supposed to revolutionize manufacturing and countless other industries: patents. In February 2014, key patents that currently prevent competition in the market for the most advanced and functional 3D printers will expire, says Duann Scott, design evangelist at 3D printing company Shapeways. These patents cover a technology...
Kickstarter
3Doodler: The World's First 3D Printing Pen
Kickstarter
17 saves · From 2013 · It's a pen that can draw in the air! 3Doodler is the 3D printing pen you can hold in your hand. Lift your imagination off the page!
The New York Times
The Daily Miracle: Finding Magic Inside The Times’s Printing Plant
The New York Times
8 min read · 23 saves · 2019-03-26 · The photographer Christopher Payne spent two years shooting The Times’s printing plant in College Point, Queens. He captured the craft, precision, and unexpected beauty of the newspaper printing…
In Coronavirus
3dprintingmedia.network
Italian hospital saves Covid-19 patients lives by 3D printing valves for reanimation devices
3dprintingmedia.network
2 min read · 127 saves · 2020-03-15 · Many have been asking what the implications of the current Covid-19 pandemic are going to be on additive manufacturing as an industry. The relationship between coronavirus and 3D printing is not entirely clear, mostly because we are very far from understanding what the long, medium and even short terms implications of the pandemic are going to be on global supply chains. Additive manufacturing may be able to play a role in helping to support industrial supply chains that are affected by limitations on traditional production and imports. One thing is for sure though: 3D printing can have an immediate beneficial
lob.com
Lob - Printing And Mailing For Developers
lob.com
1 min read · 64 saves · From 2016 · Lob enables you to seamlessly print and mail documents, postcards, checks, and more via an API. Integrate easily into your web or mobile application today.
