Let’s substitute our 3D printer’s command panel with a dot-matrix that enables the display of graphics, function icons and animations. We would like to remind you that our 3Drag printer (that prints plastic items of the size of 200x200x200 mm) may be supplied with a command panel, so to locally manage the printing…
A few days ago, in an event organized by Maker Faire European Edition 2016 committee, I had the chance to meet Renato Reggiani, cofounder of BioPic (a very interesting project too) that told me about his charity program, now gathering funds on Eppela. He and his friends from a secondary high school in Rome, getting…
When the standard model is not enough, you can “stretch” the printer to print objects up to 400x200x200 millimeters. Here’s how to make the change. To print great objects, you need a great printer -and our 3Drag is great- but if you want to print three-dimensional objects that are oversize, then you need…
A new year started, leving behind a 2015 rich in many projects, innovations and new opportunities offered by the open source hardware community. We hope that this year will be even better, and that will be another year of consolidation for the open source hardware community and also for Open Electronics. Fans who follow us…
The best result when printing chocolate objects is obtained by cooling quickly the deposited layers, by means of a jet of cold air; here is the device that allows you to do so. Aside from maintaining the chocolate temperature below the specific threshold (necessary to keep the tempering), to get fast and not deformed…
The night of the witches is coming: we need thus to gear up with a suitable decoration, so to create an atmosphere worthy of this celebration. For this circumstance there are many suggestions on the Internet, and specially creations made with 3D printers; among those available on the popular website Thingiverse, we chose a…
On December, 2014 Barilla launched a contest to get ideas about new 3d-printed pasta: More than 530 international product designers from more than 20 countries took up the challenge, producing 216 design concepts to be evaluated by a team of experts tasked with assessing the originality of the products.The winners each received a cash prize…
Microsoft Kinect for Xbox revealed itself as an excellent scanner, with which to acquire the shape of items. Let’s see how to use it along with ReconstructMe, that in its more recent versions allows the creation of models that are accurate and ready to use. The scan of solid objects, better known as 3D…
In what may be one of the most detailed and largest prop/costume projects we have seen to date, a 20-year-old Marvel Comics enthusiast named Ross Wilkes has created a 3D printed life-sized Iron Man suit. The project — which Wilkes started way back in 2013 as part of his odd, yet very creative, New Year’s…
Today we present the heater capable of keeping two syringes loaded with chocolate always ready for using with the 3Drag. A couple of months ago we tried to surprise you by showing another astonishing transformations of our printer 3Drag: the ability to print objects and decorations with chocolate. Well, if you decided to buy the…
Google Science Fair is a global online competition open to individuals or team from 13 to 18 years old. Submit before May, 19th to change our World! Here a video about what Science Fair is. Check 3Drag printer at 0’10”!! via Home page – Google Science Fair.
Did you know you can find some interesting groups on Groups – Thingiverse? Since a few days you can now share your mods, prints and …whatever you like in a group which is dedicated to 3Drag users!
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