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Feature Friday No. 14 – 3D Printed Braille

Welcome back to this week’s Feature Friday! Today we want to talk about a 3D printing topic we are very enthusiastic about – especially since it is one that has a great impact on the lives of 285 million people around the world* and that is: 3D printed braille. 3D Printed Maps… „How 3D-Printed Maps Are Helping the Blind and Visually Impaired“ […]

Feature Friday No. 13 – Smooth On’s XTC-3D Coating for 3D Printed Parts

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Welcome back to our 13th Feature Friday and to an interesting topic for anyone who has been using a desktop 3D printer. Especially 3D printers that print in lower resolution leave distinct layer lines on your parts or around joins on connecting parts. That can sometimes look interesting and appealing but sometimes you want a smoother, more highly-finished look. There are various […]

Feature Friday No. 12 – 3D Printed Men’s Shirt

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Welcome back to this week’s Feature Friday! Today we want to talk about a topic we are very passionate about and that is 3D printed fashion. With the success of our first endeavours into the world or Fashion back in January (more about that here) and after gaining some initial hands-on experience in the field, we hoped that this […]

Feature Friday No. 11 – Easy and Free 3D Modelling with Shapeshifter

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Welcome back to our new Feature Friday! You are interested in 3D printing and want to create a 3D object, but you are new to 3D modelling software? No problem. There are numerous free and easy to use 3D modelling tools like TinkerCAD and 123 Design. By adding and subtracting various primitive shapes you can easily create objects. The downside: [...]

Feature Friday No. 10 – And the Oscar goes to…

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...Casting with the help of 3D Printing Welcome back to this week’s Feature Friday! Whether or not one is a fan of the Academy Awards, there is no way of avoiding this annual spectacle. This year we were actually very excited about the Oscars. Not only because Leonardo DiCaprio could finally bring his first award home but also because [...]

Feature Friday No. 9 – Geographical Terrain Models

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Welcome back to this week’s Feature Friday! Today we want to talk about a 3D printing topic that we discovered thanks to a very unique customer request we received about two years ago. What happened was that a the son of a recently retired man asked us if we could print a 3D model of the road his [...]

Feature Friday No. 8 – DLP Printing

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Welcome to our Feature Friday No. 8. Since we had such a great time with our DLP printer and our little DLP warrior at our open evening on Wednesday we want to continue last week’s blog post about “Metal 3D Printing” by taking a closer look at the DLP technology. DLP stands for Digital Light [...]

Feature Friday No. 7 – Metal 3D Printing

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Time flies and we can already welcome you to our seventh Feature Friday! This week we want talk about a topic where there has been a lot of buzz about lately: metal 3D printing. Technologies in this area are evolving at breakneck speed, constantly increasing the printed objects’ precision and size. Also the number of [...]

Feature Friday No. 6 – Education

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Educating the future I am strongly of the opinion that 3D printing will only become mainstream after it becomes a part of the school curriculum and kids grow up learning how to design for additive manufacture. Our 9 year old wants to move into his own bedroom and he was amazed when I turned to sketchup [...]

Feature Friday No. 5 – Fashion Tech Berlin

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Last week was an amazing new experience for us when we took part in Fashion Tech Berlin hosted by Premium. This was part of Fashion week here in the German capital. There was a lot of preparation going on at DimensionAlley and at Bikini Berlin behind the scenes. We were transformed into an Atelier. It all started [...]