While 3D printing is currently very much in its infancy, accessible primarily to hobbyists, artists, and designers, affordable options do exist for public purchase and use. A consumerist world in which the only requisite to the manufacturing of goods is the material necessary to print objects is an unequivocally different one than our present times. Average…
If you’ve been keeping track of recent scientific advancements, you’ve probably heard something about 3D printing, which some are calling the “future of manufacturing.” Given a design, machines will take a building material, most commonly plastic, and create a model of the object in the design. As we speak, more and more innovations in 3D…
Seemingly in recognition of the soaring desire for (and recognition of) 3D printing, Microsoft have released a Window 8.1 application called 3D Builder which offers a basic design interface and includes some template models. Let’s consider it in the context of the numerous uses emerging for the technology, and imagine how widespread 3D printing might…