Another company I really wanted to meet with while in Buenos Aires is Printalot, possibly the largest 3D printing filament manufacturer in Argentina and Spanish-speaking South America. As with compani…
INTI Leads Argentina's Leapfrog in Industrial Technology through 3D Printing
In the center of Buenos Aires, there is a huge, beautiful park – about as large as Central Park in Manhattan – that is entirely covered by free wi-fi. All you have to do to use it is conne…
The $900 Renegade: Ourobotics Releases Fully Open Source Bioprinter
Take the lessons from Professor Pearce’s Open Source Lab (discussed in a recent article), add some low cost bioprinting (such as the systems recently released by BioBots, CELLINK and Ourobotics) and w…
XMODULE Races into the Future of Video Games and 3D Printing
If the biggest limit of 3D printing is that not enough people know how to 3D model, and the biggest limit of video games (IMAO) is that they remain stuck inside the TV (and in the last decade), then, …
Ourobotics Takes Home Silicon Valley Google Award with 10 Material Bioprinter
Bioprinting companies can be successful at start-up investment conferences, although they are sometimes outshone by more immediately accessible products. Bioprinters have the potential to drastically …
Software-Born Kikai Labs Launches New M11 3D Printer with Filament Detection
Unlike other companies that entered the desktop 3D printer arena from some areas of the manufacturing business, Buenos Aires-based Kikai Labs began as a software company. Marcelo Ruiz Camauer, the com…
Prof. Pearce’s "Open-Source Lab" Unleashes the Power of 3D Printed Lab Equipment
At 3DPI, we have had the opportunity to interview Professor Joshua Pearce from Michigan Tech a few times. That’s because he represents some of concepts that many 3D printer adopters appreciate and lik…
3D Insumos Takes Buenos Aires Makerspaces Online with Nube3D
The fourth appointment on my Argentinian visit was with David Cimino, founder and CEO at 3D Insumos. I had learned just the day before that “Insumos” in Spanish means “supplies”, so I figu…
On the Trimaker 3D Printing Roller Coaster, from Open DLP to Consumer FFF
When I visited Replikat, one of Argentina’s leading 3D printer manufacturers, I was surprised to find out they have been making their own 3D printers since 2012. Visiting Trimaker, another local 3D pr…
Project Firstborn Uses 3D Printing to Take Handmade Sculptures into the Digital Era
Jacopo Truffa, a young set designer from Rome, has had a passion for new technologies and sculpture ever since he was very young, Through low-cost 3D printers, he found a way to better relate these tw…