This week in 3D printing: 29th of January – 4th of February 2011
January 30th. 3DTin is on Makezine. 3DTin is basically “lego like” 3D modeling tool in the browser whose designs can be exported for 3D printing. Also, if you”ve heard of Minecraft you should take to this. By limiting us to making things in blocks 3DTin does limit what we can make with the tool. But, because of this limitation we are able to create things. 3DTin and its brethrenwill be very sucessful. How do I know? Because the Makerbot put out this lengthy and wonderful article out and a a few days later had a follow up with more tips.  I”ll show you some test 3D prints of 3DTin things as soon as I get to it.
Feb. 2nd. Iris van Herpen”s 3D printed fashion collection is featured on FastCo and many news and fashion blogs worldwide.
Feb. 3rd. NeoMetrix to Display 3D Scanning & 3D Printing Solutions at MD&M Show in Orlando, FL. If that sounds like a press release it is because it is. I quote, “a  great opportunity to introduce the benefits of 3D scanning and 3D printing to the medical device industry.” What many people overlook is that besides the consumer 3D printing industry (FOC, Makerbot, i.materialise etc.) there is another much more lucrative world out there: Patient specific healthcare. There”s a great future in,  patient specific healthcare.
Feb. 4th. Trendmaking blog PSFK tells the world about 3D fluid scanning, a process where an object is immersed in milk, ink or Diet Coke and then scanned slice by slice. Scanning or easy 3D design tools such as 3Dtin are going bring about the biggest advances in 3D printing.  There is no problem in finding enough people that want to 3D print. The problem is that not enough people are able to design the things they want to make. We”re kind of at the “world wide web without a browser” stage right now. If you solve the “design” problem, your great grand kids could be the Paris Hiltons of their age.
As always, if I forgot something, tell me below.
