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Following this week’s closing of the Ultimaker/MakerBot merger, the combined company is announcing a new name. The entity will be known as UltiMaker. As far as merged names go, it’s not a pa...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/13/ultimaker-makerbot-merger/

Desktop 3D printing firms MakerBot and Ultimaker this morning announced plans to merge. The new single company will be backed by NPM Capital and MakerBot-owner Stratasys and co-led by existing CE...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/05/12/makerbot-and-ultimaker-are-merging/

Two months ago, we reported that Carbon was set to raise up to $300 million, bringing the 3D printing company’s valuation up to a lofty $2.5 billion. The real numbers released this week by the ...

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/26/why-carbon-just-raised-another-260-million/

Researchers at the University at Buffalo have found that 3D printers have fingerprints, essentially slight differences in design that can be used to identify prints. This means investigators can ...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/19/researchers-discover-a-new-way-to-identify-3d-printed-guns/

Printrbot, a popular Kickstarter-backed 3D printer company, has shut down, leaving only a barebones website and little explanation. The founder, Brook Drumm, wrote that “Low sales led to hard d...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/19/printrbot-has-shut-down/

The topic of open source has been a touchy one for MakerBot over the past decade. The one-time 3D-printing darling was the subject of some serious smack talk when it stopped disclosing machine de...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/18/makerbot-attempts-to-embrace-the-open-source-community-with-its-new-labs-platform/

Entrepreneur Bre Pettis and Berkeley-based Other Machine seem like a match made in heaven. The MakerBot founder has been through the ringer once already, leaving the company he co-founded and ran...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/22/makerbot-co-founder-bre-pettis-buys-electronics-milling-machine-maker-other-machine/

Most 3D printers have a fairly small build envelope. The Makerbot, which is one of the biggest for home use, offers 29.5 L X 19.5 W X 16.5 H CM and others hover around that range. The $499 OverLo...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/02/the-overlord-proplus-is-a-3d-printer-for-making-really-tall-objects/

The following is an excerpt from The Way to Design, a guide to becoming a designer founder and to building design-centric businesses. Adapted and reprinted with the author’s permission. Until v...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/30/the-past-present-and-future-of-design-in-silicon-valley/

Goshen has a small stack of papers sitting on a table beside him, should he need to consult any notes. He never actually looks over, however. After months of behind the scenes meetings, he’s go...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/23/makerbot-ceo-interview/

MakerBot’s MinFill arrived quietly last night as a firmware upgrade for existing customers, and the company is already calling it a “big benchmark in speed and widespread adoption of 3D print...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/20/makerbot-print-process/

Verizon is reportedly getting a $250 million discount on its Yahoo deal, judge rules CRISPR-Cas9 belongs to the Broad Institute and not UC Berkeley, Pixar teaches the art of storytelling on Khan ...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/15/crunch-report-judge-rules-crispr-cas9-belongs-to-broad-instituteanimatedposter1/

MakerBot is laying off 30 percent of its staff as part of an ongoing effort to adapt to a changing market, the company announced in a blog post today. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/15/makerbot-lays-off-30-of-its-staff-as-companys-scope-narrows/

Max Friefeld, Jonathan Schwartz, and Oliver Ortlieb aren’t just co-founders – they’re roommates. These three former Makerbot employees are working on creating Voodoo Manufacturing, an effo...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/24/voodoo-manufacturing-raises-1-4-million-to-make-a-factory-full-of-3d-printers/

On this week’s episode of Technotopia I talked to Bre Pettis, former CEO of Makerbot and the founder of Bre&Co. Pettis has been thinking about new manufacturing chains, the rise of the local ma...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/21/maker-bre-pettis-talks-about-the-way-forward-for-tech-in-this-new-century/

While the ZMorph 2.0 SX looks like an alien seed pod but it’s actually a powerful, multi-tool printer for the prosumer market. The company has been around for a bit but this is their latest ent...

https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/05/hardware-battlefield-wildcard-zmorph-shows-off-its-new-multi-headed-imac-like-3d-printer/

Incredible design and manufacturing capabilities are available to almost anyone right now, thanks to 3D printing services and the designers/makers who populate those services’ marketplaces with...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/15/evaluating-ip-infringement-risks-for-designers-and-consumers-of-3d-printing-services/

3D printing is in a bit of a doldrums. The novelty has worn off and the limited utility of the technology has been made clear. The bloom is especially off the rose of home 3D printing thanks to s...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/26/the-makerbot-replicator-is-still-the-easiest-3d-printer-on-the-market/

The promise of premium home 3D printing hasn’t panned out. Hobbyist printers are common and cheap these days – there are plenty of models at around $500, the price of a really good laser prin...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/20/makerbot-doubles-down-on-its-sure-bets-professionals-and-teachers/

The other week, I spoke with the new CEO of 3D Systems. He told me that he believes the consumer 3D printing business “is not real.” That’s not exactly the vote of confidence one is lookin...

https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/20/makerbot-replicator/