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!
It was Thursday night, only 36 hours to the start of Maker Faire Kansas City, and Kansas City’s one year-old makerspace, Hammerspace was hopping! Teams were finishing up projects, tuning up 3D printers, painting impressive Mayan landscapes for robot competition environs, and testing Power Wheel Racers. Super Awesome Sylvia was there, as were the MakerBot […]
I love watching this time-lapse video of a MakerBot Replicator printing a Yoda bust, from BusyBotz. Time-lapse is a great way to capture the magic of a 3D printer on camera.
Last September, I wrote about the Thingiverse โCube Gearsโ phenomenon, briefly tracing the origin of user emmettโs Screwless Cube Gears through its evolution from Haruki Nakamuraโs papercraft geared heart sculpture via user GregFrostโs printable Broken Heart thing. At the time, I really wanted to exhaust the graph of the cube gears / heart gears phenomenon, but didnโt have the available free time. Well, I finally got around to doing it.
Thingiverse user Krest created STLs for five slightly different scales, which can be printed up and linked together to create awesome scale armor for cosplay or pure nerdiness. [via MakerBot]
Earlier this month, we linked out to the first three posts in the I Heart Robotics team’s ongoing series about choosing hardware for the fused-filament parts that come off your RepRap-type 3D printer. On Sunday, they published the fourth installment, this time focusing on the best way to make a rotating pin joint between two printed beams.
The third year of the Fab Academy wrapped up last week, with the 70 odd students giving their final project presentations at 13 Fab Labs scattered around the world. The Fab Academy is a distributed education platform built on top of the Fab Lab network; at the core is a curriculum of weekly projects and […]
Chris Favreau posted an Instructable on making a hot glue extruder for a CNC, using a $3 hot glue gun.
