3DPOD: Insight from 3D Printing Pros

3DPOD: Insight from 3D Printing Pros


Latest Episodes

3DPOD 274: Open Source Machine Control with Alexander Oster, Autodesk
October 06, 2025

Alexander Oster has done an episode with us before, five years ago. There, we learned about his early start in 3D printing and his work thus far. Now we talk to Alex about his passion for open source

3DPOD 273: Holger Schlüter, SCANLAB Head of Business Development
September 29, 2025

Holger Schlter is one of the people behind SCANLAB, a pivotal company in additive manufacturing. SCANLAB makes the light engines that power a lot of the 3D printing market's machines. He gives us a l

3DPOD 272: Kevin Kassekert, VulcanForms CEO
September 22, 2025

Kevin Kassekert has deep experience building factories for Tesla and has worked in the semiconductor industry. He now helms VulcanForms and is looking to scale their high-yield Laser Powder Bed Fusion

3DPOD 271: 3D Printing at the Mayo Clinic with Dr. Jonathan Morris
September 15, 2025

Dr. Jonathan Morris is the Executive Medical Director of Immersive and Experiential Learning at the Mayo Clinic. He is also the Medical Director of Biomedical and Scientific Visualization and helped s

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