The Week in 3D Printing – Feb 4th to Feb 10th
Happy Friday everyone,
Everyone loves Friday because after Friday comes Saturday and Saturday = Maximum Awesomeness! But before you go into your lovely weekends, let me update you with what has been going on in the world of 3D printing this week. To be honest with you, it was quite a calm week. For real this time… because I actually said this last week as well and we ended up with more items than I thought we would. So, to get the ball rolling I’ll start with…
83-Year-Old Woman Gets the World’s First 3-D Printed Jaw Transplant
We did actually cover this last week, but because we only had the footage in Dutch, I thought it would be fair enough to share this again for the rest of the world. It discusses how 3D printing company Layerwise made this medical procedure possible.
Back to the future: 3D printing in 1989
As we highlighted on our blog this week, we found a nice blast from the past on the web. It was lovely to see how 3D printing started and what their visions w
Back to the future: 3D printing in 1989
Described on Engineering.com as the first mass-media exposure of 3D Printing, here’s a segment about stereolithography on Good Morning America. People back then must have been equally amazed by this, as they are today about a 3D printed wrench. Let’s go back to the future!
Found via Mark Bloomfield.
The Week in 3D Printing – Jan 28th to Feb 3rd
As yet another week comes to an end, we provide you (as usual) with the latest 3D printing goodies of the past 7 days. So let’s get to it and see what this week had in store for us.
Designer Schreer Delights 3D prints a working gramophone for his iPhone
When a power outlet is out of reach and you’re in need of some loud jams, the iPhone speakers don’t often cut it. Sigh no more. Schreer Design has created an analog amplifier for the iPhone called the iVictrola Gramophone, based on the old Gramophones of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
The Imagine 3D Printer from Essential Dynamics is now for sale
The Imagine 3D Printer made her big debut at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2012 in Las Vegas, NV. Imagine was very well received and made a big splash. Now she is ready to make a big splash in your life! From Essential Dynamics.
3D Printing Company Layerwise is features on Belgian TV Show
This is one for those of you that understand Dutch. It’s basically an intervie
The Week in 3D Printing – 21st Jan to 27th Jan
The fourth week of 2012 has been a week of interesting 3D printing news, but also a week with lots of interesting information from the Rapid Pro 3D printing expo where we exhibited. So without further ado, let’s have a look at that news…
Regarding the news at Rapid Pro:
At Rapid Pro we got to meet some of our community members and designers while also getting introduced to new creative minds that were hungry for some 3D printing. It was quite a busy event with a very interesting crowd and lots of 3D printing potential.
Opposite our stand we had our friends from Ultimaker who seemed to attract quite a crowd as well. They showcased their great desktop 3D printer that still has the fastest controlled horizontal acceleration in the market. It was simply a pleasure as usual to see the Ultimaker do its thing.
The Other exhibitors that were present were the wonderful FabLab guys from Zuid-Limburg that showcased their great services and the creative unit of 3D Systems called Fr
The Week in 3D Printing – Jan 16th to Jan 20th
With CES 2012 behind us, the third week of 2012 seemed like a week of reflection. We found many articles referring to the moments of the event in Las Vegas while information was gathered on the buzz that it created. From an interesting discussion between 3D Systems and MakerBot, to offering our designers the possibility to put their items up for sale… it’s all in this year’s third week of 3D Printing.
MakerBot creates an awesome Stop Motion Video featuring their Replicator
After unveiling the MakerBot Replicator at CES 2012, Bre Pettis and his creative team took their time to bring together a wonderfully executed stop motion video with 3D printed characters. Great fun guaranteed!
CNET discusses the Future of 3D Printing with 3D Systems’ Cubify and the MakerBot Replicator
Another ripple effect from CES was the video interview that CNET’s Rafe Needleman made with guests MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis and Cathy from 3D Systems. Both the Cubify & Replicator were present and compared. (mak
The Week in 3D Printing: Jan 7th to Jan 13th
The Second week of 3D printing brought us mostly news from the CES 2012 (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. Some new desktop 3D printers here and some new 3D printing apps there… let’s take a look at where that goes us during this week.
Thingiverse gets a makeover
The famous 3D printing online warehouse Thingiverse got their hands together to redesign their website. Could it be a coincidence that the Makerbot Replicator was released around the same time?
Belgium’s First Face Transplant with the help of Materialise
It was Belgium’s first and the world’s 19th face transplant. Materialise played a major role in this success.
Bre Pettis reveals the Makerbot Replicator
Three days before the official start of CES 2012, the CEO of Makerbot Bre Petits announced their new Replicator on YouTube.
The new Makerbot Replicator
3D Systems reveals the new Cubify.com
As announced last week, it was only a matter of time for this news to be revealed. 3D Systems did indeed keep
Belgium”s First Face Transplant + 3D Printing = Wow
A remarkable team of plastic surgeons, led by Prof. Blondeel at the University Hospital of Ghent, have successfully executed Belgium’s first full face transplant. Although it was the world’s nineteenth face transplant, this was the first time that the complex procedure was fully planned using digital planning and 3D printing. During the 20 hour long procedure the patient, who suffered from a large facial defect, received bone, muscles, veins, nerves, and of course skin from a donor who had just died.
Pre-operative planning for both the donor and the recipient was completed in collaboration with Materialise CMF (cranio-maxillo facial) clinical engineers using ProPlan CMF. Using CT data, a digital representation of the patient’s anatomy was created and used in the formation of a detailed plan for this complex procedure. In order to put the surgical plan into action, anatomical models and patient specific surgical guides were 3D printed for use before and during the operation. The anat
The Week in 3D Printing: Jan 1st to Jan 6th
Yes, we are bringing back a great feature from the past! A weekly overview of what’s going on in the world of 3D printing. The year has just started so it’s been a bit of a calm week, but this was also quite expected.
Here’s an overview of 2012’s first week…
3D Systems completes the acquisition of Z Corp and Vidar
3D Systems announced that it has completed the acquisition of Z Corporation (“Z Corp”) and Vidar Systems (“Vidar”) for $135.5 million.
Supercool 3D Printing in Ice
Ok, so we know that this article was from the 27th of December 2011, but we have decided (because it’s such great news), to add it into this week in 3D printing. It will be in the January version of Wired Magazine.
A First Glimpse of the $300 Makibot
If you’ve missed out on the Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer project on Kickstarter last month, then you don’t want to miss the Makibox – the $300 desktop 3D Printer!
Makerbot makes us curious for next week’s CES
On Makerbot’s twitter account you
The 3D prints of the M HKA Challenge are now in the museum
When we announced the winners of the M HKA Design Challenge, we also mentioned that they would be exhibited at the M HKA museum in Antwerp from Dec 19th until Dec 29th. So for those of you who won’t be in the region of Antwerp during the holiday period, we’ve decided to share these lovely pictures of the 3D prints.
My House by 11 year old Kristof van Loock
Holes by designer Luigi Vaghi
Facebooked by teacher/designer of de Kunsthumaniora Filip Verreyke
Facebooked by teacher/designer of de Kunsthumaniora Filip Verreyke
My M KHA Legs by Matthew Pauwels
Senne001 by student of de Kunsthumaniora Senne Roekens
Senne001 by student of de Kunsthumaniora Senne Roekens
And for those of you who will be in the region of Antwerp during the holidays, don’t hesitate to visit the M HKA museum to see the works in person. They always look better up close!
Of course if you like participating in design challenges and just missed this one, no worries because we still have th
The Year of 2011 in 3D Printing: An Overview
As the year comes to an end, we often tend to reflect on the events that occurred within it and boy… was there lot to reflect on in 2011. If there is one thing that became obvious to us, it’s that 3D printing has come a long way since our reflections of last year. This year the 3D printing world was dominated by an impressive amount of 3D Systems acquisitions, a tremendous growth of new desktop 3D printers and a much larger media coverage than it had ever received before.
We went through hundreds of articles and news items on 3D printing and found it quite a challenge to scale down the amount of information. A very difficult and tight selection process was made which became our year in 3D printing of 2011. As we made this selection, we quickly realized that we couldn’t sum up this year’s 3D printing events without a much more detailed Dipity Timeline.
Click on the image to view the timeline
With that said, we hope that you enjoy having a look back in time as you take in the a
