Last week I caught up with Richard Berwick, co-founder of the Dreambox, at UC Berkeley. The Dreambox is a 3D Printing vending machine.
Posted by Michael Colombo | Thursday June 6th, 2013 12:45 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Arduino | 7 Comments
In partnership with NASA, Made in Space, Inc. recently announced that they'll be sending one of their custom 3D printers to the International Space Station in August of 2014. The...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Thursday June 6th, 2013 9:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing | 6 Comments
Advances in low-cost 3D Printing and CNC Machining have made it easy for a growing number of hobbyists to design and manufacture complex parts in the privacy of their homes....
Posted by Michal Zalewski | Thursday June 6th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: Workshop, Machining | 8 Comments
MIT researcher Skylar Tibbits recently revealed some of his fascinating work in the field of self-assembling structures, coined "4D Printing". The four dimensions in question here aren't all spacial --...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Wednesday June 5th, 2013 11:00 PM
Categories: 3D Printing | No Comments
Yesterday, 3D Printing service Shapeways announced the availability of a new material in their already-impressive lineup, a flexible plastic polymer. Printing with this "Elasto Plastic" will cost $1.75/cm3, and like...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Friday May 31st, 2013 2:27 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Art & Design | No Comments
Last summer a student organization based out of the University of Washington, WOOF (Washington Open Object Fabricators), successfully created the world's first 3D Printed Boat. The boat was printed on...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Thursday May 30th, 2013 6:00 AM
Categories: 3D Printing | 5 Comments
We get a lot of questions about 3D Printers, especially when it concerns their use in an educational setting. Here's an exchange between me and a 7th grade science teacher....
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Monday May 13th, 2013 11:30 AM
Categories: 3D Printing | 3 Comments
Like most people out there, I sometimes have more ideas than time to implement them. So instead of keeping those ideas locked in a notebook somewhere unaccessible and not serving...
Posted by Zach "Hoeken" Smith | Thursday May 2nd, 2013 11:00 AM
Categories: Open Source Hardware | 8 Comments
The Inside 3D Printing Conference in NYC gave us a clear look at the business side of 3D printing. Usual suspects, like 3D Systems, MakerBot and Stratasys, attended in full...
Posted by Todd Blatt | Monday April 29th, 2013 7:48 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Makers | 1 Comment
Social Coding company GitHub has released a free, in-browser viewer for STL files in full 3D. In comparison to the iterative, collaborative environments for working on software, hardware has a...
Posted by Eric Weinhoffer | Tuesday April 9th, 2013 11:05 AM
Categories: 3D Printing | 9 Comments
I made a flash diffuser for the Canon Speedlight 580EX II after seeing our photo intern taping a piece of paper to his flash to act as a light bounce....
Posted by Eric Chu | Thursday February 21st, 2013 3:00 PM
Categories: 3D Printing, Art & Design, Photography & Video | 1 Comment
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