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!
From the RepRap blog: The New Scientist is running a feature article by Tom Simonite on RepRap and its derivatives this week. Tom visited the RepRap Lab at Bath University, the London Hackspace and other places a few weeks ago to research his article.
Boing Boing’s Cory Doctorow picked up my post yesterday about Christopher Schaie’s gorgeous brass and wood irising door peephole, and within a few hours one of his fans made a cardboard replica and presented it to him, in person, at a book-signing. And then Cory blogged the replica. All within the space of 24 hours. The internet is an amazing thing.
Designed by San Diego artist Christopher Schaie and milled on his ShopBot CNC robot to be installed, with a glass dome on one side, to serve as the peephole in a nautical-themed door he is creating for his studio. Details, including DXF files, in this thread on the ShopBot forum.
We announced the winners of the MAKE/MakerBot giveaway last week, and Bre has already printed out the top two designs! Here’s the MakerBot Transformer, open and closed, followed by the stereoscopic viewer. MakerBot will also be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend. From MAKE magazine: MAKE Volume 21 is the Desktop Manufacturing issue, with […]
Dustin Wallace, whose bottle-opener ring for bartenders I blogged recently, has released the third figure in his series of fold-up water-jet-cut sci-fi “Robotagami” models. You can fold it yourself, or he’ll fold it for you. [Thanks, Dustin!]
The Makerbot Store sells two kinds of plastic: ABS and PLA. The former is a hard, durable, beautiful plastic, the same stuff they make Lego out of. PLA is biorenewable and biodegradable but far less durable. So, Dominik Wenger of Augsburg, Germany, thought, why not use the PLA as a support for an ABS fabject […]
Fab n’ ship cats Shapeways continues to offer fun new materials; this time, gold. From today until the 30th you can order Gold Plated Stainless Steel. This new material gives our 3D printed Stainless Steel a pure gold finish. This will let people create jewels and jewelery using 3D printing with a lot more bling […]
