Collin Kobayashi plans to make a paddleboard with his 3D printer. Some people, including his wife, may chuckle at the idea, but the president and chief 3D officer of 3D Innovations LLC has the ...

3D printing, or more accurately, additive manufacturing, is more than just a fad, and the automotive industry is providing more and more examples of this. The most obvious is Czinger, whose 21C ...

There is one challenge every hardware entrepreneur must ultimately tackle, and tackle quickly. It’s called “closing the prototype gap.” This can be difficult for hardware startups as the move from ...

Automotive prototyping has witnessed a transformative journey, much like the vehicles it aims to design. This evolution has been a testament to the industry's relentless quest for perfection, pushing ...

It was assumed that 3D printing would forever be pinned to pumping out product prototypes. But that limiting idea is getting squashed by real world examples of the technology being used to produce ...

In just a few days, ORNL researchers used powder bed printing to create this lunar rover wheel based on a NASA design. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in ...

More than 1,000 people from all over the world got a crash course in additive manufacturing (AM) during a recent virtual workshop hosted by MIT Professional Education. More commonly known as 3D ...

While attending Euromold 2013 in Frankfurt, Germany, last December with a band playing 3D-printed instruments, Olaf Diegel was set a challenge by the head of 3D Systems, Avi Reichental. The Professor ...

The printer, developed by mechanical engineer and Bitcoin tinkerer Andy "PizzAndy" Prokopyk under the Proof of Print name, replaces a standard heated print bed with a ...

An updated edition of the January 27, 2026 article. 3D Printing, also known as additive manufacturing, has fundamentally reshaped product design and fabrication. Since its emergence in the 1980s, this ...