Category Archives: General news

Got 3D Skills? Here’s a 3D Printing challenge for you!

Posted on May 22, 2013 by victoria

CGTrader is looking for 3D designers to create the next big thing in 3D printing. So, if you have any 3D modeling skills, roll up your sleeves and take part in CGTrader’s 3D printing competition! …
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Ultimaker 3D print farm!

Posted on September 24, 2012 by ErikDeBruijn

We’re really excited to show you our 3D print farm. We’ve been expanding it, because it’s always good to run many machines for a very long time to be able to test reliability. An added …
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3D printing: rocket science or not?

Posted on July 23, 2012 by ErikDeBruijn

We discovered throught Google+ that Craig Bonsignore has been doing a great weekend project… 3D printing rockets and launching them with compressed air! Below is a short video of a successful launch. The rocket landed …
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Ultimaker featured in Spits Nieuws!

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Bart Silvius

Today’s edition of the Dutch free newspaper ‘Spits Nieuws’ contains a half-page article about 3D-printing. The article is about the current state of the technology both in medical and home applications and of course the …
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We hear you!

Posted on April 20, 2012 by ErikDeBruijn

You asked, and we have listened! Some long awaited progress. Lead time is going down! From our new building, we’re finally able to start catching up with demand. Big shipments are sent out today, leaving …
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Ultimaker on DEAF2012

Posted on April 3, 2012 by admin

May 16–May 20 (exhibition 3 June) | Rotterdam DEAF is back! The festival presents a wide range of program segments, including a large exhibition, concerts, performances, seminars, workshops and an academic symposium. Ticket sales started. …
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Daily Future

Posted on March 4, 2012 by Joris

For the solo exhibition of Alicia Framis in the Rabobank headquarters Utrecht, the Netherlands, Joris van Tubergen made an interactive installation using an Ultimaker 3D printer. Together with software developer Miguel Jimenez he developed the …
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Ultimaker at BOTACON 0, New York

Posted on December 17, 2010 by ErikDeBruijn

I took my Ultimaker to BOTACON 0 (the first BOTACON of, I’m sure, many BOTACON’s to come!). There, I was giving a talk on the collaborative ecosystem that is emerging around digital fabrication. Bre Pettis …
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Speeding

Posted on December 8, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

The limits of the mechanical frame have not been discovered yet. This is an insanely fast print (the axes move at 15 cm/s), printing even fairly large objects pretty fast!
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Support material

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Martijn Elserman

Here’s a print with support material. The overhang at the chin and nose is would not be possible to print without support material. Support is printed from the same material as the guy is printed …
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