If you’re a maker, 3d printing is an incredibly useful tool to have in your arsenal. Not only can it help bring your projects to life faster, but it can also offer unique results that would be difficult (or impossible!) to achieve with traditional methods. In these blog posts, we’ll provide you with some essential information and tips regarding 3D printing for makersโincluding the basics of how to get started, plus creative tutorials for spicing up your projects. Whether youโre already familiar with 3d printing or are just starting out, these resources will help take your game-making skills even further!
I met with SoftKinetic’sย Chief Marketing Officerย Eric Krzeslo at their suite in the LVH to ask him about their new partnership with MakerBotย toย enhance their 3D camera technology for 3D scanningย that was announced Monday at CES 2014. SoftKinetic is provides 3D visionย andย and gesture recognition technologies for the consumer electronics, automotive and industrial markets; who license their intellectual […]
Shortly after 3D Systems broke the news about their new sugar, chocolate, ceramic, and full-color powder printers MAKE visited their booth at CES 2014 to get the full story behind these incredible machines. I discussed 3DS’ newest FFF printers, the Cube 3 and CubePro with Keith Ozar,ย 3D Systems’ Director of Consumer Products. NOTE: The prints […]
Afinia challenges the validity of all four of the patents that Stratasys accuses them of infringing.
Bmore3D started as a holiday 3D printing, 3D scanning, 3D modeling popup store in Baltimore. The store came together through a collaboration of Todd Blatt of Custom 3D Stuff, Michael Raphael of Direct Dimensions and ShapeShot, Baltimorean Graham Stewart, and Tinkerine Studio of Vancouver. With all of our expertise and connections in the 3D industry, we were able to put together an extremely comprehensive and exciting destination for both the typical consumer as well as the most tech savvy folks around.
Christmas Comes Early For The MAKE 3DP Team For the past two years our Make: Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing has used “Christmas Morning” print tests to gauge how well a desktop machine prints right out of the box. As our “How We Tested” article states: In order to make sure that the printers were […]
Although it may be too late to get yourself a 3D Printer in time for Christmas (unless you’re willing to pay for overnight shipping), we thought it would be a good idea to have a discussion about which 3D Printer may be right for you. It’s never too early to start thinking about options for an early 2014 gift, right?
Superstar 3DP object designer Michael Curry (aka Skimbal) designed a plethora of incredible jumbo minifigs that can be fabricated on additive desktop machines. He has designed an incredible range of characters, from Star Wars figurines, to Top Gear’s “The Stig” to Breaking Bad’s Heisenberg to Walking Dead zombies.
