MakerBot TV: What Is Open Source?
The second season of MakerBot TV is off to a great start. In this third episode, MakerBot co-founder Bre Pettis talks about the power of open source.
3D Printing & Imaging
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!
Universal Adapter Set for Construction Toys
Not a physical product, of course, but a physible one, from anonymous designers at the F.A.T. collective. I’d vote against the naughty acronym, personally, but they do thrive on controversy, those F.A.T. peeps.
Nanometer Scale 3D Printer
Researchers Jan Torgersen and Peter Gruber at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have successfully printed intricately detailed models of various objects at the nanometer scale using a process called โtwo-photon lithographyโ. In the process, they also managed to speed things up a bit and have gone from printing in millimeters per second to meters […]
Math Monday: Color 3D Printing
Color 3D printing allows one to make beautiful objects that are pretty much impossible to fabricate by any other technique. Here is a 9-inch diameter sculpture I designed and built on a 3D Systems Zprinter 450.
Making Things See: 3D Vision with Kinect, Processing, Arduino, and MakerBot
Microsoft’s Kinect is a fascinating piece of technology. It seems that every day a new, remarkable hack shows up using this device. Interested in using the Kinect in your own projects? Check out Making Things See, available in the Maker Shed!
3D Printed Guitars
Not quite your grandfather’s hollow body guitar, Massey University professor Olaf Diegel creates awe-inspiring 3D printed guitar bodies with intricate scenes embedded within their open air design.
Customize Replacement Parts with 3D Printing
German maker Thorsten Wilms wanted to add a nice headlight to his new bike, but a couple of cables got in the way of a clean installation. He ordered a new clamp to compensate for the cables, but it ended up positioning the business end in the opposite direction. So he did what everyone with […]
