Stephen Holmes, Author at DEVELOP3D

London Design Festival: Brilliant Brits, fantastic furniture and a global showcase

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 20, 2013

The London Design Festival (LDF) has been in full swing for the last few days, but to cover all of this marauding beast would take a dedicated editorial team much…

UK schools to receive free 3D printers for attending London 3D Printshow

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 27, 2013

The London 3D Printshow will award a free desktop 3D printer to each attending school to this year’s event, with has a heavy emphasis on developing the next generation of…

If MacGyver did 3D printers: The $100 3D printer

Posted by Stephen Holmes - September 30, 2013

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/117421627/the-peachy-printer-the-first-100-3d-printer-and-sc/widget/video.html A $100 3D printer sounds like it has all the structural soundness of a drunken uncle at a wedding disco working his ‘magic’ to a Jackson 5 mega-mix, but…

TechShop opens first European outpost in Munich with BMW

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 2, 2013

We’re big fans of the expansion of TechShop, a ‘gym membership’ scheme for workshops and equipment, which has now announced its expansion out of the USA and over to Germany.…

Trending right now: 3D Printing

Posted by Stephen Holmes - October 8, 2013

The Science Museum’s new 3D printing exhibition Nestled amongst some of the most important historic vehicles, machines and devices in London’s Science Museum is a solitary CNC lathe. Its tape-driven…

World’s first 3D printed record store opens in London

Posted by Stephen Holmes - December 12, 2013

In the heart of Soho’s vinyl store mecca, Bacardi’s Beginnings campaign is opening the first 3D printing record store with the help of Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke, marking the first…

PTC acquire ThingWorx – an internet of things, and stuff…

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 6, 2014

While the rest of us were hunkering down, preparing for a storm of New Year’s Eve festivities/horrible seasonal weather, PTC was figuratively popping to the shops, clearly having forgot it’s…

Horrendous car = not necessarily bad design

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 7, 2014

Our favourite news piece today is about the design and manufacturing history behind the Reliant Robin, a three-wheeled vehicle, weighing 400kg that could seat four, and be driven with a…

Nissan redesigns its London Taxi – City braces for ugly

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 8, 2014

As if listening to our baffled confusion between good design producing a horrible vehicle earlier this week, Nissan has given its London Taxi a facelift to “better reflect the iconic…

‘He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’ is back picking up a technology paycheck – this time 3D Systems is paying

Posted by Stephen Holmes - January 9, 2014

Having eagerly followed the coverage from CES this week, amongst the 3D printing and electrical goods magic on show, we were taken aback by one unveiling in particular. The Technology…