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• Best ABS and ASA Filament 2026: Low-Warp Picks for Enclosed Printers June 20
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• Best TPU Filament 2026: Flexible Picks for Every Shore Hardness June 20
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• We’re focused on volumetric 3D printing, 3D printed insoles, and 3D printed prosthetics in this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs. Read on for all the details! Researchers Using Holograms to...
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• I was born in the early 1950s, and our first family home was in a rural area of Lehigh County in Pennsylvania. My dad, Karson Albert, worked as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company, but during WWII he served in the Merchant Marines as a Midshipman on the Liberty ships. At the start of WWII, […] The post How My Father Helped Me Become a Maker appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• From Mare Island’s esplanade to Rome’s Gazometro, Happy Valley to the Orlando Fairgrounds, this fall share your world with the world at one of the dynamic Maker Faires featured below…and check our UPCOMING FAIRES page for smaller events across the world. Celebrate 20 Years Of Maker Faire Bay Area: September 25-27th This year is extra […] The post Heads Up Makers! Apply Now For Featured Fall Faires appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• Incredible creators and projects at the FREE Open Healthware Conference happening July 9th & 10th in San Francisco! The post Open Healthware Conference 2026 is Coming appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• This Father's Day I rounded up 9 projects my dad would like, plus one more. The post Top Ten Projects My Dad Would Like appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• China’s additive manufacturing (AM) industry has spent years trying to reduce its reliance on foreign technology. In polymer 3D printing, domestic companies have already become major players. In metal AM,...
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• Foundation Alloy has just raised $22 million in Series A financing. The alloy company is trying to create a platform that will enable the solid state manufacturing of alloys. In...
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• The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) 2026 will feature an expanded conference program spanning nine events and more than 90 sessions, with new additions targeting industrial artificial intelligence, investors, and the Spanish-speaking manufacturing community. The show runs September 14–19 at McCormick Place in Chicago. A Broader Educational Offering Owned and produced by The Association For…
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• Portuguese firm Havelar erected a 500 m² recycling center office at the Ecocentro de Perafita in Porto for the Matosinhos municipality using a COBOD BOD2 3D printer, a four-person crew, and nine working days. More unusually still, the project came in on budget, a feat the partners themselves described as rare for public works in…
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• A new policy report from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI), authored by Steven Camilleri, co-founder and CTO of metal 3D printing company SPEE3D, argues that national resilience is not a political ambition but an engineering problem. Titled Make Stuff Here… Or Else, the report introduces the concept of the “Sovereignty Countdown”: the measured window…
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• It’s lunchtime as I write this and my daughter Lizzy is making lasagna, not helping with lasagna but making it. Her brother Peter sulks nearby because it was supposed to be his turn at the stove this weekend, and these two now argue over who gets to cook the way other kids argue over the […] The post Raising Kids Who Love To Make Things appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• Best PETG Filament 2026: Tough, Weatherproof Picks for Every Printer June 19
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• We’ll start with business news in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, as XJet appointed a value-added reseller in Germany, BIO INX is expanding its presence in the Italian market, and...
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• At this year’s Balikatan event, an annual joint exercise hosted by the Philippines military with participation from Western allies, the US military trained Filipino troops in expeditionary manufacturing enabled by...
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• There has been a lot going on in 3D printing for bicycles over the years. The most successful implementation so far is in bicycle seats. Carbon 3D printed seats are...
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• As desktop 3D printers become increasingly common in homes, Bambu Lab is focusing attention on something beyond print speed and hardware features. This week, the company launched a new filament,...
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• I was captivated when I saw my first Robot Factory 3D printer. The robust, precise machine was built to last. And this was in an era of very flimsy, disposable,...
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• Learn SketchUp by designing your own Lego-compatible bricks for 3D printing. The post Learn SketchUp by Modeling DIY Lego Bricks appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• Hands-On Review: Revopoint Inspire 2 3D Scanner June 17
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• California’s controversial AB 2047 is still making its way through the state legislature. Meanwhile, in New York, lawmakers have already moved forward with similar restrictions for preventing the production of...
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• Earlier this year, Beehive Industries received a $29.7 million contract to produce its Frenzy 6 and Frenzy 8 engines for the US Air Force. The metal additive manufacturing (AM) user...
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• Fabri is a startup that wants to create a “digital foundry,” and just raised some funds to help it reach this goal. There are far too few foundries in America....
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• The additive manufacturing (AM) industry naturally wants to move beyond prototyping to production at scale, and the industry is certainly starting to demonstrate success with that objective, especially in Asia....
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• Connecticut-based biotech LambdaVision has spent nearly a decade turning the International Space Station (ISS) into its primary manufacturing floor. The company has developed an artificial retina, which is assembled from hundreds of alternating layers of bacteriorhodopsin, a light-sensitive protein. On Earth, gravity creates sedimentation and buoyancy effects that disrupt layer uniformity, driving up material waste…
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• The Air Force Lifecycle Management Center, working alongside the Air Force Research Laboratory and Air Mobility Command, have developed small blade-shaped aerodynamic inserts, formally designated microvanes, and tested them on a limited number of C-17 Globemaster III cargo aircraft. Each plane received twelve of the devices, each measuring roughly 10 centimeters by 40 centimeters, bonded…
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• Hi3D, the browser-based AI model generation platform built on its proprietary Sparc3D engine, has rolled out a suite of new Maker features aimed at one of the most persistent friction points in consumer 3D printing: turning an AI-generated file into something that can actually be printed without additional CAD work. The centerpiece of the release…
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• A collaboration between researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Medical School has produced a method for 3D printing vascular networks at resolutions approaching the size of the body’s smallest blood vessels. The work, published in Nature Chemical Engineering, addresses one of the central unsolved problems in tissue engineering: how to build vascular…
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• Guangzhou-based 3D printing and digital manufacturing company HeyGears has opened reservations for its G1 Series desktop full-color 3D and UV printer ahead of a planned Kickstarter launch in July. The G1 Series is a compact production system for full-color 3D models, raised 3D textures, and 2D UV printing. The machine can produce full-color models directly…
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• Mikhail Gladkikh has worked in oil and gas for many years. With this background, we obviously talk about energy market turbulence and the adoption of AM in oil and gas....
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• A warehouse from the outside, but step inside Haddy and it shifts quickly: finished pieces up front, clean and minimal, furniture you can touch and sit on. Walking through the...
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• Limitless Labs has raised an additional $20 million for its agentic CAD/CAM platform, bringing its total funding to date to $27.3 million. Investors in the Series A round include Dell...
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• Volumental is a Swedish 3D scanning company that has created, over the past decade, a scan-to-fit solution for use in stores. The company has worked with sports retailers and shoe...
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• Divergent has announced a new version of its Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) printer and a new site. The company aims to do nothing short of “further accelerating its mission...
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• [Brogan M Pratt] and his students do a lot of 3D printing, and as such found themselves producing a lot of plastic waste. Seeing an opportunity, they built a bike-powered …read more
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• Snapmaker U1 Drops to $849 for Snapmaker’s 10th Anniversary June 15
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• New Marine Occupational Specialty Combines Welding, Machining and 3D printing June 15
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• Best PLA Filament in 2026: Tested Picks for Every Grade June 15
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• Welcome to Printing Money Episode 39, (or, “The one where they all went to market”). It’s that quarterly time, so Troy Jensen (Managing Director, Cantor Fitzgerald) joins Danny for a review...
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• Seals use their whiskers to hunt. Not Navy Seals, although they may in some way also, but this article is about lowercase seals. Not Seal the musician either; as far...
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• A student researcher at Indiana University Indianapolis has uncovered what she believes is a significant patient privacy issue involving medical anatomy files shared on public 3D printing websites. Salma Kherallah,...
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• A research team led by Dr. Muhammad Talha Junaid at the University of Sharjah tested cement mortar beams reinforced with FDM-printed PLA profiles. The study found that surface geometry was the dominant variable, with the best-performing configuration reaching nearly 80% of steel’s bending strength and matching its ductility. Concrete on its own handles compression well…
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• Metallurgy has always been about control. For centuries, getting metals to blend predictably was the difference between a reliable tool and a brittle failure. Today, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are tackling that challenge in a modern form: high-entropy alloys (HEAs), a class of materials developed over the last two…
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• Researchers at MIT have shown that a complex class of microscopic nozzle, normally built only inside semiconductor cleanrooms, can be produced in a matter of hours using 3D printing. The devices, known as triaxial electrospray emitters, generate microscopic droplets made of three separate fluid layers, droplets that can harden into structured microparticles for uses ranging…
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• Stockwell Elastomerics, a Philadelphia-based silicone manufacturer, has incorporated silicone 3D printing into its operations through Lynxter’s S300X platform, cutting prototype validation timelines from weeks to days and eliminating the material compromises that have long limited additive manufacturing in elastomers. A Century-Old Manufacturer Adds an Additive Layer Stockwell Elastomerics has spent more than 100 years in…
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• Talleres Artificio, a mechanical engineering firm based in Chile, has incorporated SHINING 3D‘s FreeScan Trak Nova into its inspection workflow for mining equipment, a move the company says has halved the time needed for certain ball mill inspections while improving the quality of the dimensional data its engineers work from. The firm, which employs a…
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• For years, most desktop 3D printers have looked more or less the same. Some are black. Some are gray. A few are bright orange. They look like boxes. Some are...
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• You may be beset by a bewildering array of new Chinese cars. How can they all be viable? They can’t be, and this is the point. This is why so...
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• We’ll kick this weekend’s 3D Printing News Briefs off with some advisory board and management changes, and then move on to project call news. We’ll end with some heartwarming stories...
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• British company Rem3dy Health has closed a £14 million (approx. $18.8 million) funding round to finance its international growth. The capital was raised through a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE), with the final commitments received earlier this year and converted into shares this month. The round values the Birmingham-headquartered business at £84 million. The…
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• Elmet Technologies, the Lewiston, Maine-based subsidiary of The Elmet Group Co. has received $4.3 million in strategic funding tied to a contract from the United States Department of War. The award is intended to grow the company’s ability to produce molybdenum-based products and other refractory metal components destined for defense applications, with a particular emphasis…
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• Swedish software company Interspectral AB and Austrian high-performance component maker Pankl Racing Systems AG announced an expanded strategic collaboration focused on speeding up the industrialization of metal additive manufacturing. The agreement builds on several years of joint work and centers on improving process monitoring, quality assurance, and data-driven production workflows. Under the new arrangement, Pankl…
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• Parivas, an independent watchmaker based in Los Angeles, has presented the Exo.1, a luxury timepiece whose case is produced as one continuous 3D printed structure. Launched on May 18, 2026, as the opening piece of the brand’s Genesis Collection, the watch is the company’s attempt to establish what it calls “additive watch design,” building a…
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• Voltage Vessels, based in Hawaii, has released Eclipse X9, a composite that combines recycled PETG with basalt fiber reinforcement for large-format additive manufacturing (LFAM). After several years of development, the material is now commercially available as both pellets and filament, and is undergoing evaluation at several LFAM facilities across different printer platforms. The company is…
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• UK-based 3D printing company Photocentric has spun out its space manufacturing activities into a separate business called CosmicMaker, after the successful demonstration of its 3D printing technology aboard a series...
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• Something super important happened just a few days ago, and too few people paid attention. Creality, a pioneer in low-cost desktop material extrusion printers, went public. Creality is now listed...
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• SpaceX officially began trading on the Nasdaq today under the ticker symbol SPCX, marking one of the most anticipated and largest public offerings in Wall Street history. The company priced...
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• When Kristin Berbawy arrived in Prague, she wasn’t expecting to find herself immediately at home. But a Maker Faire anywhere, feels a lot like home to a maker. Outside her hotel window, a giant laser sliced across the night sky from Prague’s iconic TV Tower as the city celebrated Liberation Day. It looked less like […] The post Maker Faire Prague 2026…Makes A Difference appeared first on Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers .
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• TDK to Acquire 3D Printing Firm Fabric8Labs for Up to $400 Million June 11
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