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…
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…
You may already know the project: OpenSLS looks in good shape and in a recent post on 3Dprint.com, you can read here, they’ve been covering late progress. Worth a read! For those not familiar with OpenSLS: OpenSLS is a platform for exploring the selective laser sintering process and a functioning prototype SLS 3D printer capable…
3D Systems’ Investor Day, brought us a great news related to the collaboration between the 3Dprinting giant and Google – in relation to Project Ara. The company estimates that the printing speeds used within the manufacturing of modules for Google’s Project Ara will increase by approximately 50X over current 3D printing methods. And this will happen…
Incredible project: a 100% wood 3d printed speaker abvailable in Open Design (no clue about the license used) – is unmentioned. This project really shows the potential of merging design and the fabrication revolution: Spirulida is the World’s First Desktop Speaker printed from Timberfill (100% wood)! Its form and 4″ full range speaker are a marriage…
[vimeo id=”94832056″ width=”620″ height=”360″] We recently spotted a very interesting project, the 3dprinter called Fa)(a 3d: a modular, open source printer that was born out the collaboration of several Italian fablabs. The team behind the printer promotes its kit mostly thanks to a workshop that bets on the importance of a collaborative moment to build…
Despite not being opensource, this project is really clever and may trigger some open source hacker in the same direction! MagicBox: Mass finishing for ABS and PLA 3D prints on your desktop. The best companion for your 3D printer. By SKY-TECH. Polish your 3D prints… Magically! Easier than saying “ABRACADABRA!” or waving around a magic…
A truly interesting news spotted on 3Dprint.com. According to the news portal, a Slovenian company, called BetAbram, plans on releasing a 3D house printer, the BetAbram P3, in the summer According to the company the printer will be priced at approximately 12,000€. “We already constructed all three types [of printers], but we are still developing software…
Very detailed procedure to cast aluminium! This page describes my first successful attempt casting aluminum parts directly from 3D printed PLA parts. The process is practically identical to lost wax, but instead of burning out the wax, I burned out the PLA plastic (which is a bio-plastic). I needed some aluminum parts to mount my…
3D Hubs released the May 3D printing trend report! Still our 3Drag/K8200 is underestimated since we started only now to ship it with the 3DHubs embedded flyers: if you are an owner of our printer you should register on 3dHubs: We’ve just released our May 2014 3D printing trend report. With over 4500 printers on our platform, our report…
Super cool development thanks to Disney Research: 3d printing soft fibers: This paper considers the design, construction, and example use of a new type of 3D printer which fabricates three-dimensional objects from soft fibers (wool and wool blend yarn). This printer allows the substantial advantages of additive manufacturing techniques (including rapid turn-around prototyping of physical…
A really amazing project we noticed on instructables: so interesting for people dealing with photography and … hacking! See: Ultralight, 3D Printed, 3-Axis, Modular Time-Lapse Motion Control System.
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