3DPOD: Insight from 3D Printing Pros

3DPOD: Insight from 3D Printing Pros


Latest Episodes

3DPOD Episode 149: 3D Printed Consumer Goods with Ian Yang, Gantri Founder
April 17, 2023

Ian Yang is the founder of Gantri, a startup which uses desktop 3D printers to make lamps. We love Gantri because it deploys 3D printing for consumer products and is one of very few firms to do so. Ga

3DPOD Episode 148: Frank Herzog, HZG Group
April 10, 2023

Frank Herzog, alongside his wife, commercialized Concept Laser. The firm was later sold to GE to become the core of GE Additive, and Frank stuck around to build out GE's operations in Lichtenfels. Lat

3DPOD Episode 147: Solid State Metal 3D Printing with Tim Bell, COO of MELD
April 03, 2023

Meld is one of the most exciting metal 3D printing startups out there. Its additive friction stir deposition is a solid-state process that can print very large metal parts that no other technology can

3DPOD Episode 146: Machine Learning and 3D Printing with Ben Schrauwen, Oqton SVP
March 27, 2023

Ben Schrauwen was a Professor of Machine Learning who also had a few startups under his belt when joined Autodesk and worked on the CAD giant's 3D printing software. He then started Oqton, a software

3DPOD Episode 145: Scott Volk, Advanced Additive Innovations
March 21, 2023

Scott Volk has deep experience in additive and, over the decades, he's stood at the forefront of polymer and metal implementations, working for such firms as Incodema3D and GPI Prototype. Upon leaving

3DPOD Episode 144: High Volume Carbon Fiber 3D Printing with 9T Labs CEO Martin Eichenhofer
March 13, 2023

Martin Eichenhofer took his research from ETH Zurich and turned it into an exciting startup, 9T Labs, which hopes to make its two step carbon fiber 3D printing technique suitable for large-scale volum

3DPOD Episode 143: Thermally Conductive Polymer 3D Printing with TCPoly CEO Matthew Smith
March 06, 2023

Matt Smith started his firm TCPoly while he was a researcher at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He parlayed this small business into manufacturing filament that is thermally, but not electrically

3DPOD Episode 142: Ole von Seelen, trinckle 3D
February 27, 2023

As Head of Business Development, Marketing and Sales, Ole von Seelen has been helping trinckle 3D grow in the 3D printing space for years now. Starting out as a package for managing online services, t

3DPOD Episode 141: Low-Cost Large Format 3D Printing with Samantha Snabes, re:3D
February 20, 2023

Samantha Snabes, co-founder of re:3D, is extremely humble, but as we dive into her story in this episode of the 3DPOD, we learn just how exciting, fascinating and fun her life has truly been. It is a

3DPOD Episode 140: Digital Metal Casting with David Moodie, Foundry Lab CEO
February 13, 2023

David Moodie is a New Zealand-based product designer who took a tumble down the 3D printing rabbit hole. After meeting the world's nicest venture capital fund, a fanciful client project morphed into a