New York’s coast has taken a beating over the years, including from Superstorm Sandy, and the D-Shape 3D printer will be used to repair some of the damage.
3D Printer Stocks and Investing
We've written a general overview to 3D printer stocks in 2013, which a good place to begin: Click here
Several companies which make 3D printers and 3D modeling software are publicly traded companies. The beauty of investing in 3D printer stocks now is that most of the world has yet to know what 3D printing is, let alone understand the future of this world-changing technology.
3D printer leaders like 3D Systems Technology (DDD) and Stratasys. Inc. (SSYS) are trade on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq, respectively. Two new smaller companies just recently went public: Arcam AB (AMAVF) and ExOne (XONE). Organovo (ONVO) is a pioneer in the 3D bioprinter area.
Some 3D modeling software (CAD) companies that allows the creation of the digital files that serve as input for the 3D printers, are also public. For example, the biggest player is AutoDesk (ADSK); another player, the creator of the massively popular Solidworks software, is a product of a public company in France named Dassault Systèmes, that you can buy on the Nasdaq (DASTY).
This 3D printer stocks archive page will keep you abreast of the latest happenings in 3D printing investment opportunities.
Architecture
Articles about the use of 3D printers in Architecture.
Towards automated clay home construction, with FabClay
3D Printing buildings isn’t a new concept, but FabClay introduces an old material to automated architecture.
Dutch architect wants to 3D print “endless” house
Dutch architect Janjaap Ruijssenaars has designed an "endless" house and he hopes to 3D print it with a D-Shape 3D printer.
Augmenting 3D printing with virtual overlays and architecture
In 2013 architects will have the aid of Inition's iPad app that creates visual overlays on scale architectural models, displaying wind currents, lighting, and more.
MIT’s Neri Oxman on 3D printing buildings of the future
Neri Oxman, designer, architect and founder of the Mediated Matter group at MIT’s Media Lab, on the five tenants of a new kind of architecture. Hint: it's 3D printed.
perfor(M)ations: a design for better healthcare delivery
“This is architecture of extreme integration, of nuanced transgressions of the extensive and intensive, of dipping in and out of poché space, pushing up against architectural surfaces, and reconstituting them in a more complex way. Poché becomes vivid, active space rather than blackened solids of [...]
Printing Bone Homes
Lurking securely in one of the corners of 3D Printshow London, what appeared to be a sloppily recreated dinosaur skull was actually a scaled prototype of a printed house.
Discovery Channel features the giant D-Shape 3D printer
The Discovery Channel has filmed a piece on the D-Shape 3D printer, which is a gigantic 6m x 6m 3D printer that prints huge models from sand. Someday buildings.
Yale students recreate Rome in gold, with 3D printing
You know the saying, “Rome wasn’t built in a day.” That’s right, it was built in a semester by size Yale students, their professor and a 3D printer.
The KamerMaker: Mammoth mobile 3D printer to print architecture on demand
Dutch architecture firm DUS has produced a prototype of the KamerMaker 3D printer that is big enough to print furniture-sized models and even small structures that can actually offer shelter for people.
Another look at Neri Oxman’s Incredible 3D-printed works
Objet just put out a new video they've created on MIT's Neri Oxman’s May 2012 exhibit entitled ‘Imaginary Beings, Mythologies of the Not Yet’ at the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
3D printed buildings…on the moon?
The traditional building construction process is horribly archaic. A process called Contour Crafting hopes to modernize the industry with 3D printing..
3D printing will help build unimaginable shapes
Architect Michael Hansmeyer uses an algorithm to design outrageously unique, complex shapes, which will soon be 3D printed into architectural forms.
Student 3D prints Northwestern University campus
Northwestern University student Ben Rothman set out to create a build 3D model of the NU campus and then produce it on a 3D printer.
A printable house, in the forests of Denmark
In the forests of Denmark, you can find a home that was "printed" and put together by just two people, without the use of any heavy machinery.