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 makers—including the basics of how to get started, plus creative tutorials for spicing up your projects. Whether you’re already familiar with 3d printing or are just starting out, these resources will help take your game-making skills even further!
3DEA, New York City’s 3D printing pop-up store, has a great line-up of classes and speakers this weekend–as well as loads of 3D printers and 3D printed objects for sale. Anyone who buys a printer or signs up for a Saturday workshop gets a free copy of MAKE’s Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. 3DEA was […]
I just love Micah Ganske’s Mining Habitat Ring World, a sculpture of a space station. Micah printed the whole thing on his MakerBot Replicators with over 1,000 parts and a total print time of 700 hours. [via Bre]
Designing and machining things in 3D can be difficult to wrap your brain around, but there are a few great ways to learn. Tune in at 2pm PST/5pm EST on the +MAKE page so we can tell you all about them, or catch the show later on the MAKE YouTube page.
I took some time to talk to Marcele Godoy about how she uses 3D printing in the context of being an architect.
Streamed live on December 11, in this Toolsday episode, Eric Weinhoffer and Michael Castor walk through the 3D Printing “Toolchain,” the software needed to go from 3D Model to printed part. This is especially useful for those of you who recently purchased a 3D Printer from the Maker Shed, or plan to acquire one in the near future.
Do you want to put a Printrbot LC, Plus, or assembled Jr. under the tree for Christmas? Orders made today by 11:59pm PST using either UPS or Fedex ground will arrive by December 24th in the lower 48 states of the USA.
Matters of Grey shared 19 Stars Wars snowflakes patterns a couple of years ago, and even though they’re not new, it doesn’t make them any less stellar. Several of the designs look ripe for 3D printing. Now the real question is: who’s down to post CAD files for them on Thingiverse? Looks like the Vadar […]
