A new 3Dprinting portal debuts: Welcome Pinshape
Pinshape is a new marketplace for 3D designs. According to the website you can not only upload and sell your designs but you can also get it fabricated on demand and shipped to you. pinshape.
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Plan B, an open source 3DP using InkShield solution
A very cool project we picked on Instructable: Plan B is an open source 3DP 3D printer. It uses binder and powder to create it´s parts. It can be built for €1000,- ($1300,-) if the parts are sourced right. It uses standard 3D printer parts and electronics, off the shelf inkjet components, 3D printed parts…
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3D Printer OS. Your printer operating system, as a Service.
A 3dPrinter OS that works from the cloud. Probably the most non-open source solution… or maybe not? Who knows how this will evolve. Still a bit hard to me to understand what is the actual user experience. Did someone try? Please share your impressions in the comment! We’re excited to announce the release of the alpha and…
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If you really want to do Ice Bucket Challenge use a 3D Printed Bucket (and donate).
Cool idea from these guys so enhance the awareness with regards to fighting ALS: In honor of the ALS Association, we decided to make a video in regards to the ALS ice bucket challenge. We made and ROBO 3D printed our own bucket in honor of the cause. We also are donating $100 from each…
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Don’t forget to apply for 3Drag Contest RELAUNCHED
As you may have noticed, we relaunched our 3Drag contest earlier in july: To encourage the participation of as many people as possible, we decided to raffle three prestigious rewards. A winner for each category will be chosen by a jury. The three winners will be rewarded with a voucher to be spent on our store…
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Amazon launches 3D Printing Store with Parametric Design Tools
Great news at amazon. The retail industry is experimenting with 3d printing and on demand production and – overall – this is welcome. Hopefully they will understand how to integrate these technologies in the product lifecycle and help reduce waste and impact of manufacturing, not just create another gadget like these 🙂 Welcome to the 3D printing…
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A cute open source Laser Engraver and Cutter for Makers
Very beautiful project of small and affordable micro engraver for Maker’s smallworks. See the pictures: Laser Cube is an open source and economical laser engraver/cutter kit . It is so easy to use and have pleasure from it . What is laser Cube: The cost-effective laser cube is an entry level desktop cutter or engraver…
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The Open Shoes project is Crowdfunding on Goteo!
A super interesting project is getting crowdfunded on Goteo, looking to create some sort of open platform to create ultra personalized shoes, in open source: The Open Shoes project consists on creating a healthy, modular and open source footwear, that you may make for yourself, using new technologies, or can acquire it at a reasonable…
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Marcel Duchamp, Chess Set is now Available in Open Source
As reported by Boing Boing here: Marcel Duchamp’s rare chess-set has been recreated as freely downloadable 3D print-files on Thingiverse, where the community is actively remixing them. This chess set is now being remixed and reinterpreted by several users. It’s super interesting to see pieces coming from contemporary art heritage to be “digitalized” and made…
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Artist releases World’s First Analog 3D Printer. Amazing.
3Dprint.com has a comprehensive coverage of this incredible piece of Low Fi art: a 3D printer that can print a vase – or in general symmetrical objects that you can create by a shape rotation: Without a doubt, this is the most incredible 3D printer I have ever come across. It totally changes the artistic…
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3D contest relaunched
A few months ago we presented a 3D printing contest for owners of the 3Drag 3D printer. Despite we received some tweaks and changes more asked us to open the competition to those who have a different type of printer or even built a new model. As several Makers sent us pictures and information about…
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Print flex filaments with 3Drag/K8200
The 3D printer 3Drag is famous for being completely open and easily hackable. With a simple modification with the 3Drag you can also print the materials softer and more flexible. Just download from Thingiverse the filament guide and the extruder base. The latter has been stretched in order to avoid that the filaments can be more…
