We’ve seen before printed soles or inserts for shoes, but Nike moves it up a level printing the “upper” part of the shoe. Continue reading →

This was  one of the coolest things I had seen in quite sometime in regard to space research.  It’s one thing to explore new places and keep humans alive, it’s another thing to use space to benefit those of us still on the planet.  Continue reading →

NASA’s ISS mockup in Houston that I was privileged to tour.

We’ve written about Made in Space before and it now looks like their footprint in the ISS will be expanding even more!  Made in Space already has 2 printers in orbit Continue reading →

Saw Oceans 8 this week and was surprised at the big role 3D printing and scanning played in the plot.  No plot spoilers here that you won’t see in the previews Continue reading →

Are you an STL person or a 3MF person?  Read a great article talking about the two dueling file formats from Make Parts Fast.  STL is the defacto standard Continue reading →

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I’m originally from Wisconsin, so an article about 3D printed cheese was sure to catch my attention!  In this case they’re using the sodium caseinate which is a natural protein/polymer Continue reading →

We’ve talked about 3D printed food before, but this one caught my eye.  My wife and I went to Australia for our honeymoon and of course when you’re down under trying Vegemite is a right of passage of sorts.  Being a paste it’s well suited for extrusion, but what was interesting was how its yeasty salty goodness could create circuits that conduct electricity.  I guess this is also further proof that people will try to 3D print everything eventually…