South African Research Centre Acquires Optomec LENS Additive Manufacturing...
Optomec announced that the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has acquired an Optomec Laser Engineering Net Shaping system, which is used for metal 3D printing...
View Article3D Printing — A South African Update
South Africa’s Engineering News reported last week on the exciting developments in 3D printing that are taking place in that part of the world. While they did headline with the dreaded “R” word and, in...
View Articlevoxeljet Employs Large Scale 3D Printing to Support Joint Aid Project for a...
A defective turbine wheel meant that a small hospital in Ethiopia was no longer able to warrant the supply of its electricity. And it did not have enough money to replace the wheel. Thanks to the joint...
View ArticleW. Afate: Recycling 1st World Waste into New World Solutions
The cost of technological progress is that, with each exponential leap of Moore’s Law, obsolete machinery is cast away as garbage. And, because discarded electronics often contain harmful components...
View ArticleMoss & Materialise Present Factory 2.0: For Warhol & 3D Printing Lovers
The Andy Warhol Museum, curator and creative director of Moss Bureau, Murry Moss and the Belgian-based 3D printing firm Materialise have teamed up to present “Factory 2.0,” a set of art installations...
View ArticlePirate3D Share the 3D Printing Happy and Reveal Their Own Pirate Code —...
The pledges just keep on coming for the Buccaneer 3D printer on Kickstarter. As I write, the total no of pledges stand at 1385, with a total fund of $532,140. Having passed the $500k mark, Pirate3D has...
View ArticleAgents of the 3D Revolution – Promoting 3D Printing in South Africa
The main type of 3D printing related news from Africa has been mostly associated to the humanitarian sector, as potential innovations to provide help for those most in need – in the future. However,...
View Article“3D Printers for Peace” Contest — The Results are In
Michigan Technological University has just announced the winners of its 3D Printers for Peace contest. Open for entries since the spring, the competition was conceived by Joshua Pearce — a 3D printing...
View ArticleThe Potential for W. Afate, the First 3D Printer Created from e-Waste
In May, we covered the story of Afate Gnikou who had taken to resolve the problem of e-waste, created by first world countries and deposited in third world countries, by transforming leftover computer,...
View ArticleThe South African Additive Manufacturing Roadmap Development Project
It’s as though there’s a call to the governments of every country around the world to get organised about 3D printing. We have already covered the formation of SASAM, a group dedicated to outlining...
View ArticleLeapfrog Creatr Auctioned for £2000 in London’s Oranjebal
In an annual charity gala in London, a Creatr raised £2000 in an auction with renowned auction house, Christies. The Oranjebal gala is organized by and for the Dutch community in London. The auction...
View ArticleSave This Man’s 3D Chocolate Printing Business!
South Africa’s House4Hack hackspace may be one of the most inventive hubs around, spurring such truly unique projects as the RepRap Morgan and the RoboHand project. Most recently, the H4H-er that’s...
View ArticleStratasys Tech Used to Prototype Innovative Energy Solution for Developing...
A nice industrial user-story has emerged from 3D printing company Stratasys that shines a light on a company working to improve energy supplies in developing regions around the world that require...
View Article3D Printed Prosthetics for Sudanese Amputees — Initiated by Project Daniel
Mick Ebeling is making a deep impact with a very simple approach: Help one, help many. Founder of Not Impossible Labs, a nonprofit that creates tech solutions for real-world problems, Ebeling was moved...
View ArticleMaking Mass-Produced 3D Printed Prosthetics a Reality in Uganda
University of Toronto professor Matt Ratto and his Critical Making lab are helping an international charity apply recent advances in 3D scanning and 3D printing technology to help Ugandan children...
View ArticleThe Objet500 Connex3 Struts the Runway at 3D PrintShow in NYC
By Michael Molitch-Hou The Objet500 Connex3 from Stratasys is an amazing machine. Its inkjet technology allows it to 3D print in multiple colours with multiple materials, producing full colour objects....
View ArticleTunisia’s 3D Print Shop Shows 3D Printing Is Growing in North Africa
By Davide Sher 3D Printing is spreading across all continents. Unlike other industrialisation processes, 3D printing follows a radically different logic and one of its main strengths is de-localization...
View ArticleSouth African Inventor Hans Fouche is Dreaming Big with His Giant 3D Printer
By Davide Sher South African technology blog htxt.africa, which describes itself as South Africa’s newest and most exciting tech blog (and the description seems accurate IMHO), pays very close...
View ArticleNorth-African Start-Up Makes Bold Strides with 3D Printing
By Davide Sher About three months ago I reported on 3DPrint, a Tunisia based 3D print shop and service, as proof that 3D printing is taking hold in North Africa and generally is giving an opportunity...
View Article3DprinTogo and a Whole Lot More: Here’s What WoeLab Has Been Up to Since W.Afate
By Davide Sher When The Togo based makerspace WoeLab Presented the W.Afate project to build a 3D printer using E-Waste from some of the largest dumps of old computer and electronic equipment it sent...
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