This post follows a first one in which we presented some tips about how to tune printing (with 3Drag but also in general). Here you’ll find 5 more cool 3D prints to experiment with! Porcupine Vase This is an easy print difficulties, with reduced printing times, but it’s. It belongs to the category of…
After countless hours of playing with 3Drag (now with a lower price!!) we finally selected 10 prints that you can use to explain what you can really make with your 3D printer. 3D printing is every day more often mentioned in the press: lots of stories, ranging from printing human tissues (thus saving lives) to creating…
Here’s a simple but essential tool for monitoring the 3Drag and print without the need of a connected computer: all this thanks to a cursor, an SD card slot and an LCD display. Obviously we applied this to our interpretation of the Rep Rap universe (the 3Drag) but you can really easily tweak and adapt…
Being really open source is no joke. Open sourcing an hardware product, usually goes through several major steps. The first one is usually verifying that all the software is really open source, Free to use and adapt and accessible. It’s very important to stress this point, there’s a big difference in freeware (and in general…
A few days ago was released the new version of Repetier Host, the recommended software for our printer 3Drag. The version 0.90B integrates several new functions. Let us see the main: Version 0.90 23-06-2013 Slic3r 0.9.10 included. Redesigned object placement tab. Cut objects in any direction. Analyse mesh, calc volume, surface, dimensions. Import/export…
This week the American-Israeli company and 3D printing giant Stratasys acquired the once beloved, now discussed, Makerbot Industries for about 400 M$. Some said it’s quite a big valuation for a company that still need to find a sustainable revenue stream and a consolidated business. Those of you that are interested in the details of…
Continuing our experience in interviewing cool people from the Open Source hardware, digital manufacturing and startups realm we are now presenting today an interivew with Alessandro ranellucci Alessandro, lives in Rome (Italy), has a background in architecture and in software development, that he himself describes as “two parallel worlds” despite enjoying spending time in both…
I was very impressed in the last days of the much talk that has been done around the Liberator, the first 3D printable gun, available for download on Defcad. [youtube id=”drPz6n6UXQY” width=”620″ height=”360″] The amateur, DIY guns, are not new, it is not the 3D printing today to make a difference: even if the team…
Let’s improve the 3Drag with this new board that allows to control a fan and (thanks to the ATmega2560 processor) add some code and accessory devices such as a display or an SD Card When we first released our 3D printer, we tried to use some parts that were already available and tested, in…
Someone had already imagined, someone else hoped for that, days ago, finally one of the most prominent actors of the Makers ecosystem, Makerbot, announced a commercial desktop 3D Scanner. The good news, for those concerned with the openness of such a system, is that, well before that move, developers already created it: it…
We are harnessing the power of next generation 3D search to revolutionize the way you source parts. We provide a tool that makes this critical process rapid, accurate and cheap. (It’s faster, better, cheaper!) Our philosophy is, if “a picture paints a thousand words”, then “a 3D model contains a thousand specs”! A new…
Let’s learn about hardware and software features of the open source 3D printer from Open-Electronics. Among the advantages of open source hardware and software lies the ability to know all the construction and design details and have access to all the parameters to change the device operation in details. We have all the information…
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