We actually had the chance to see this project in action at the Rome Maker Faire. Amazing stuff: The Perpetual Plastic Project is all about the local recycling of plastics. Last summer the project was successfully launched at the Lowlands festival 2012. Our mini-factory was installed and visitors could recycle their used drinking cups into…
Another groundbreaking Italian project in 3Dprinting (seen at Rome Maker Faire). Our mission is to reutilize the waste material resulting from the marbles production process. Sludge and waste are a consequence of the production system, this marble dust is complex and expensive to dispose of. But if mixed with special resins and catalysed with UV…
Never too late to invent something great: Hugh Lyman, an 83-year-old retiree from Enumclaw, Washington, won The Desktop Factory Competition with his design for a low-cost, open-source machine capable of turning resin pellets into inexpensive filament for 3D printing. The competition, sponsored by Inventables, Kauffman, and the Maker Education Initiative, required that the parts used to make…
3D printing technology has already been used to create elegant, edible 3D printed sweets made out of sugar. But now designer Philippe Malouin is using a 3D printer to create a variety of sugar-based plates and bowls in a project called Dunes. While the idea of edible sugar dishware that simply melts away in the…
Another 3dPrinting comparison portal: Makerwise 3D Printer Guide.
Lumifold, is raising funds on kickstarter: interesting concept and very ambitious machine! This is probably the smallest (measuring just 250 x 120 x 30mm when folded) that you can really travel with, and you still have a building area of 90 x 90 x 90mm. This printer is the best choice as your first 3d…
These guys want to create the first $100 3Dprinter (that actually sports also Scannig features). The project is still in it’s infancy but it’s so cool that was hyper funded on kickstarter. Cool stuff: See how it works: The peachy printer is a Photolithographic printer. That means it uses a controlled beam of light to…
We know that we can’t talk speed without first investing in reliability. After all, there’s so much time lost in 3D printing because so much effort is put in making the machines work. Reliability has always been one of our core goals at Radiant Fabrication. We’ve never been about producing the cheapest 3D printer but…
The Open Hand Project is an open source project with the goal of making robotic prosthetic hands more accessible to amputees. The Dextrus hand is the realization of this goal, it’s a robotic hand that can be put together for well under £650 ($1000) and offers much of the functionality of a human hand The…
You’ve still seven six more days to support this ambitious project looking for 1M$!: Mebotics: Microfactory – “World’s First Machine Shop in a Box” The first widely-available machine to marry both additive and subtractive manufacturing, integrating machining, 3D printing and etching into a safe, self-cleaning, networkable unit • An ultimate all-in-one factory for small business – biotech & design…
Interestingly enough, Stratasys developed a technology to 3d print injection molds: In manufacturing, 3D printing has turned the production of injection molded prototypes into a quick, easy and inexpensive process. Read on and watch how Stratasys PolyJet 3D printing technology helps a team at Budapest University create an injection mold with POM (acetal) for functional…
A good post on MIT technology review, will help you understand more of this technology. Copyright enforcement in 3D printing is still an open issue: People in the 3-D printing world have talked for years about the possibility of unauthorized copying and sharing of designs—similar to what the file-sharing program Napster allowed for music. Now…
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