3DPOD: Insight from 3D Printing Pros

3DPOD: Insight from 3D Printing Pros


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3DPOD 270: Hamid Zarringhalam, CEO Nikon Advanced Manufacturing
September 08, 2025

Hamid Zarringhalam rose through the ranks of Nikon's precision manufacturing unit. He's now a Corporate Vice President at Nikon and the CEO of Nikon Advanced Manufacturing and Nikon Ventures. We're of

3DPOD 269: AM in Japan, Software for AM, and more with Peter Rogers, Layered Ltd.
September 01, 2025

Peter Rogers is Australian but has worked in Japan since 2009. He has held roles at a Japanese 3D Printing firm, at Velo3D, and at Autodesk. Today, he consults for Japanese 3D Printing firms looking t

3DPOD 268: AM for IndyCar with Kory Drake, Arrow McLaren
August 26, 2025

Kory Drake grew up surrounded by the fumes of motor oil and gasoline. With a family steeped in racing and race engineering, he naturally ended up working for racing teams. Now at Arrow McLarens IndyC

3DPOD 267: 3D Printing the Ukraine War Effort with Jake Volnov, DrukArmy
August 18, 2025

Jake Volnov started DrukArmy to help the Ukrainian war effort. DrukArmy lets individual service members request parts, describe a use case or need, design parts, or order parts. These parts, millions

3DPOD 266: Composite AM and Convergent Manufacturing with Habib Dagher, University of Maine
August 11, 2025

Dr. Habib Dagher founded the University of Maine's Advanced Structures and Composites Center, which, with 400 researchers, is one of the leading composites research centers in the world. In 3D printin

3DPOD 265: Beam Shaping and Plenty More with Alex Kingsbury, nLIGHT
August 04, 2025

Alex Kingsbury worked at the Australian research institute CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) on Additive before working for The Barnes Global Advisors, RMIT Universi

3DPOD 264: 3D Printing in US Marine Corps with Matt Pine, Innovation Officer
July 28, 2025

Matt Pine is training Marines to use 3D printing in the field and helping deploy the technology globally for the United States Marine Corps. Working primarily with desktop machines, he focuses on MRO

3DPOD 263: Metal AM Powders with Continuum CEO Rob Higby
July 21, 2025

Continuum was previously known as Molyworks, and we loved their crazy startup story with founder Chris Eonta. Now Rob Higby is the firm's CEO. With him, we discuss a more mature very different firm. W

3DPOD 262: Bio-inspired Design for AM with Dhruv Bhate, Arizona State University
July 14, 2025

Dhruv Bhate is an associate professor at Arizona State University. There, he looks at structures, materials, and design. Previously, he worked at PADT as well as in the semiconductor and automotive in

3DPOD 261: Tooling and Cooling for AM with Jason Murphy, NXC MFG
July 08, 2025

Jason Murphys NXC MFG (Next Chapter Manufacturing) is not a generalist service; instead, the company specializes in making tooling. Using LPBF and binder jet, the company produces some of the most co