Instanbul may be the next major city with a 3D printing store. According to the SolidDoodle blog and press release they have secured a distribtour, 3Dortgen, who plans to open in just less than a month. With a neighboring FabLab they are likely to attract creative types who are looking to create new things. From

There are over 4700 UPS stores in the us, Puerto Rico, and Canada according to Wikipedia. That is a large potential market for Stratasys, which recently announced a test program to place a UPrint 3D printer in various locations. Stratasys announced a partnership with UPS Stores that brings 3D printing to a larger market According

This week in Chicago the 3D printing industry will convene at “Inside 3D Printing”, a conference designed to express the current state of the industry and highlight potential business opportunities additive manufacturing will provide. The program Chair of the event, Hod Lipson,  will be hosting the introduction as well as a session on the future

Crowd funding is a recent hot trend that is helping to launch great new innovations in a number of emerging technologies. One of them is of course 3D printing. Some of the most successful campaigns are covered in Part 1 of the Successful Crowd sourced 3D Printers. Here are even more of the successes teams

With the coming closing of Pirate3D’s successful Kickstarter campaign there have now been a number of million dollar+ crowd funded 3D printers in the past year. Add to that the numerous smaller, though still substantial, campaigns based off of various open source and proprietary designs and it is easy to think that the future of

MakerBot Retail Store in Manhattan Recently Amazon added a whole section of 3D printing and additive manufacturing . Many sites picked this up as a sign of the increased popularity and potential market for 3D printing. Though that is one sign of the growing industry another is the increasing number of “retail” 3d printing stores.  Some

Made In Space 3D Printer during a micro gravity “Vomit Comet” What if astronauts could manufacture whatever they needed while in space? That is the question behind a NASA funded small business Made In Space. After successful testing on micro-gravity flights back in 2011 (the playfully named “Vomit Comet”) plans are in place to put

3D Printing has been the hot topic for months now. With investors and consumers being inundated with news and information on the subject it is important to understand what additive manufacturing and 3D printing can, and can not, do. Thankfully there are some great resources including a free webinar from engineering.com.   The session is