Spring Cleaning - A Website Update
Spring is in the air—and we figured our website deserved a little freshening up too! It’s the same us, just...
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Protopasta Cardboard Spools are Bambu AMS Compatible
We love printing with Bambu Lab 3D printers for their ease, speed, and reliability. While printing a single material is...
New Nozzles Now Available at Micro-swiss.com
Micro Swiss has been making high-quality nozzles for 10 years. When they contacted us in 2015, we were glad to add their...
Spoolstock: Filament Inventory and 3D Print Management
Spoolstock offers users a comprehensive tool for tracking filament inventory, recording print activity, and optimizing their 3D printing workflow. With...
3D Printed Energy Harvesters
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) are energy-harvesting devices that convert mechanical energy into electricity. The research highlighted here involves a print-in-place device to...
Protopasta x CM Designs Collaboration
In 2022, Protopasta collaborated with Filament Stories to showcase Protopasta filaments. Thank you Courtney and Chris for your wonderful videos!...
Ready, set, refresh - a new look for Protopasta
At Protoplant, we are constantly driven by an unrest in wanting to accomplish more. Last Fall, that feeling peaked so we...
Protopasta Carbon Fiber HTPLA in Maker Box
Maker Box, founded 2016, has often featured Protopasta Filaments (see past boxes here) and features Dark Gray Carbon Fiber HTPLA this...
Protopasta filament extrusion *live* at ERRF 2019 - a must-attend event!
What the ERRF? You heard it here folks! Protopasta joins ERRF 2019 (Get Tickets Here) as a Platinum sponsor and plans to...
Protopasta collaborates with Trash Hackers - turning waste into keepsakes
Reducing waste has been important to Protopasta from the start. When kickstarting the brand in 2014, we started by proposing 250g...
Closer to Custom: Protopasta's Endless Pastabilities Subscription
Protopasta introduced Stardust glitter filament in 2016 thus venturing into a new world of dynamic, sparkly filaments. Getting started in sparkly brought...
Gray or black? More options for beautiful, rigid Carbon Fiber 3D prints!
Are there any materials more iconic than Carbon Fiber? Protoplant first introduced Carbon Fiber PLA 3D printer filament to market more than...
Scent, texture & sheen - Perspective brings new dimensions to 3D Printing
This month we celebrate 3 years since kickstarting the Proto-pasta brand. At that time, we approached 3D Printing as engineers with...
The Amazing Matte Fiber
Proto-pasta founders, Dustin and Aaron Cram, lead the 3D Printing Industry by introducing Carbon Fiber and High Temp PLAs nearly 3 years...
"We make good stuff!"
With the constant introduction of new manufacturers, printers, hardware, filaments, and users, the 3D printing experience can vary from "awesome"...
Rusty Metal March - more affordable metal printing for fun with magnetism & rust!
At ProtoPlant, we've gotten really good at compounding and extruding metal composites into filament. We've been able to reduce our...
World's Best Performing, Universally 3D Printable Carbon Fiber Filament
More than 2 years ago, ProtoPlant launched Proto-pasta brand 3D Printer filament through kickstarter, introducing the World's First Carbon Fiber...
12 Things for Christmas
So we wanted to do a special twist on the "12 Days of Christmas" for y'all who love to make...
The Protopasta brand celebrates 2 years since kickstarting!
ProtoPlant successfully kickstarted Protopasta brand filament by bringing 3 new 3D Printing materials to market, including World’s First Carbon Fiber...
May is for Makers
Meet new employee Matt! He recently joined the Proto-pasta team and brings production experience and plenty of enthusiasm. A hands-on,...