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!
My son Blake and I always try to make something to give our family for Christmas. In the late ’90s, we were quite proud of the packing/box art (inset) we made for some handmade (not by us) ornaments we gave out. We found one of these boxes in the attic this year and it looks […]
This seems pretty amazing- Mr.Kim and John Sarik used a 3d printer configured as a plotter to print their own transistors.
Thingiverse user Ijon’s 3-servo hexapod looks pretty sweet! I can’t wait to see the project evolve. For instance, I’d love to see it with the battery pack and micro controller carried on-board.
Alex Schlegel made these two neuroscience-themed self portraits based on a model of his actual brain cast in bronze. Alex writes: This self-portrait is a life-sized, anatomically-correct bronze cast of my cerebral cortex. Embedded on the surface of the cortex is a cluster of 60 flickering, yellow LEDs resembling the statistical parametric maps used in […]
Hope everyone is having a fine Christmas eve. Here’s a little holiday mood music, from our friends at ShopBot. [Thanks, Bill Young!]
Nikolaus Gradwohl found himself in constant need of battery packs to power his gadgets, so rather than keep purchasing them, he wrote up a parameterizable battery compartment generator.
Charles Richter and Hod Lipson created this sweet little flapper that is so robust it can stay in the air for over a minute. This project has focused on developing a flapping-wing hovering insect using 3D printed wings and mechanical parts. The use of 3D printing technology has greatly expanded the possibilities for wing design, […]
