Back in June 2012, we reported on the Desktop Factory Challenge. Entrants had to make an inexpensive machine that could make plastic filament, the sort you'd need for a Makerbot... read more →
Today a new space-exploration group, Deep Space Industries, announced in Los Angeles that they intend to capture an asteroid and mine it for valuable resources. This is not the stuff... read more →
Telecommunications giant Nokia just released today that they are releasing a few of the CAD files for their new Lumia 820, free of charge. With a good 3D printer, or... read more →
"See a need, fill a need," like they said in the animated film, Robots. MakerBot certainly understands the innate human need to build, create, and solve problems. People like to... read more →
Imagine the Eiffel Tower for one second - a solid web of steel girders and soccerball-sized rivets. Bridges and skyscrapers all rely on the same lattice design as well. If... read more →
GrabCAD has friends in the CAD Cloud, companies with great ideas to solve big problems. One problem is how to answer that question every Engineer and Designer asks - can... read more →
Computer-Assisted Design isn't just for Mechanical Engineers. Designing and creating certain molecules, biological compounds - even organs are now possible, and CAD is needed more and more. In the same... read more →
A small team of 16 Engineering Students in Leuven, Belgium have taken the saying '0-60 mph' to another level. Working with the latest 3D Printing technology provided by iMaterialise, they... read more →
...what would you make? Something simple, like a utensil for the kitchen? An improved design for a travel mug? You can design anything for the 3D Printing Event Challenge, as... read more →
