No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die
I can’t believe it took this long for somebody to do this with a laser cutter. You go, Martin Raynsford. [via Hacked Gadgets]
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 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!
An Open Source Laser Sintering 3D Printer
Additive rapid prototyping in plastic materials is becoming quite accessible to home and hobby users. If you’re a hobbyist on a typical budget wanting to rapid prototype in metal, however, you’re limited to subtractive methods, i.e. CNC machine tools like mills and lathes, and even those are not exactly “cheap.” Professional 3D printing services like […]
Electro Wire Stripper
As soon as I saw this, I thought, “why didn’t I think of that!?” Thingiverse user Brian Beebe designed an Electro Wire Stripper, a wire stripper that indicates when you’ve cut through the insulation. As soon as each blade comes into contact with the wire, it closes the circuit to turn on the LED, letting […]
Fused Filament Printing with Water-Soluble Support
Veteran Thingiverse user Tony Buser has printed a model (intended to be an approximation of the fractal Hilbert curve) using polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) as a support material. Once everything is printed and cooled, the PVA is dissolved away in a glass of water, leaving only the polylactic acid (PLA) model. This technique, when perfected, should […]
Printable Johnson Polyhedra
Thingiverse user and retired protein crystallographer(!!!) pmoews created these .STLs of polyhedra (AKA Johnson solids), based off of George Hart’s VRML files of the solids, converting them to .STLs with Fortran(!!!!) (My favorite is the gyrate bidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron, just cuz of the name.)
NEWS FROM THE FUTURE – The Pirate Bay 3D Prints Hollywood
Makerbot has a great post on this too.
Pocket Factory On the Road, Dispatch #1
Here is the first dispatch from Bilal Ghalib and Alex Hornstein as they head out on their epic adventures to spread the gospel of desktop manufacturing/3D printing, design and make some cool stuff, and hopefully, make a few bucks selling what comes out of their “Pocket Factory.” – Gareth It’s five in the morning and […]