Here’s a cool gallery of pictures from World Maker Faire: See the beautiful pictures of the 3Dprinted car (the Strati), the amazing 3dPrinted statue puzzle, the Choco 3Drag at work and… Boris with Adafruit’s Ladyada! We really enjoyed!
As you may know, Auditorium Parco della Musica, the famous multifunctional complex designed by archistar Renzo Piano, has been selected to welcome the participants of the incoming edition of the Roman Maker Faire. A place that represents an exceptional choice for the largest European Innovation Exhibition: sponsored by the Chamber of Commerce of Rome, organized…
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…
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…
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…
Some weeks ago we launched our contest to see what you can do with a 3Drag printer and some results to achieve. With this post, we are showcasing you some cool stuff made by 3Drag fans: you can already find much hacks and mods for this 3D printer across the Internet, and some of these…
Trying to figure out what kind of cool stuff you can create with a 3D printer it’s not always easy if you just look to a magazine talking about it or hosting an advertising page: to fully understand what a 3D printer can do for you, you need to start printing. No coincidence that those…
As you may probably figure out we recently attended CES in Las Vegas as basically everyone working In this industry. Wandering around the different booths and shows is always interesting, CES remains probably the best consumer electronics show for the industry and everyone is basically there. This year, during the Leaders in Technology Dinner event,…
To create a PCB with 3Drag , by milling , it is necessary to have the G-Code files for the tracks patterning and for the holes relating to the printed circuit board itself. In this section we describe how to obtain these G-Code files using a specific plugin for the popular PCB design software ”…
How to create the G-code files from any gerber file (using PCBMill software) necessary to create a PCB with 3Drag, by milling. To create a PCB with 3Drag, by milling, you need the G-Code files for the tracks patterning and for the holes pertaining to the printed circuit board itself. In this section we describe…
[youtube id=”euv3kv9kpEg” width=”620″ height=”360″] After a fair amount of work we can finally presents you a tutorial on how to modify our 3Drag printer or K8200 printer to transform it in a perfect CNC milling machine, to be used for the production of PCBs, by incision. In addition, we also show you the procedures to…
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