Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

World’s largest 3D printing store falters on opening night in London

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 2, 2013

London’s grand opening of iMakr, the world’s largest 3D printing store, has been built up by the internet to bursting point, so it was no great surprise that it was…

Lamborghini’s 50th anniversary: an almost endless parade of classic design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 9, 2013

As the rain drizzles down the grey window panes of DEVELOP3D Towers, it is in a dreamlike state that images of the 50th Anniversary Grand Tour of Lamborghini present themselves.…

Affordable custom prosthetic hand design enabled – over 10,000 miles – using desktop 3D printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 9, 2013

3D printing not only helped the collaboration of this design over 10,000 miles, but proved a cheap production method A mechanical 3D printed hand, designed and produced using a MakerBot…

Make A Bot Competition – The winners!

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 10, 2013

Finally we can unveil to you the winner of our Make A Bot competition, in which hundreds of you sent in your robot designs in order to win the amazing…

Live blog – professional 3D Printing: How the big boys do it

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 13, 2013

Today we’re slapping on the fake tan, vajazzling our bits and conforming to every stereotype going as we live blog from Essex. More specifically, we’re at IPF Ltd, one of…

Customised ergonomics enabled by 3D printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 14, 2013

Generic computer mice can often be to big or too small, and for those using them every day it can cause some crippling problems. Pyott Design have arrived at a…

Dr Phil is in the house! (And helping charity)

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 14, 2013

One of the most exciting new technology charities we know, Techfortrade, has appointed one of our amazing DEVELOP3D Live speakers Dr Phil Reeves, managing director of Econolyst, to its board…

Eames chairs go back to fibreglass, with mixed results for the environment

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 21, 2013

The Eames Molded Plastic Chair, created by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller, is being reintroduced in fibreglass, but in a new, more environmentally sensitive material chemistry and manufacturing…

DEVELOP3D Live: Videos from the event are now live!

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 21, 2013

DEVELOP3D Live: Ping Fu, 3D Systems – Interview from DEVELOP3D on Vimeo. For those of you that missed out on the amazing day that was DEVELOP3D Live last month; revisit…

Simulation: DS Simulia Conference, Vienna – as it happened

Posted by Stephen Holmes - May 22, 2013

We’re in the city of prancing horses, good cake and schnitzel to learn more about simulation. It makes sense on some level. After rattling through even more acquisitions of late…