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!
Nice round up of VUW student work – creating 3D printers @ Ponoko via Beyond the beyond. Last week the 3rd year Industrial Design students at Victoria University presented the prototypes of the 3D printers they had designed. The challenge was to design and make a “green” 3D printer in 4 weeks with a limited […]
This table is made through rapid prototyping (3D printing) of branches that become increasingly more dense at the top to form a planar surface. It was developed by Platform Wertel Oberfell and Matthias Bär. Via Core 77. Related: Rapid prototyped brain lamp Avatar… in real life (3D printing)
3D printers print layer on top of layer, slowly building a three-dimensional object. A plethora of materials and methods are used to build these layers.
3D scanners are not as common as 3D printers, which is strange because you can build one in a few minutes.
Designer Alexander Lervik made a lamp by 3D printing a model of his own brain.
A Long-Tail, Pro-Am, Digital Maker Thing.
Bruce Sterling’s “Kiosk” is a tale ripped right out of the future. 3D printing, carbon nano-tubes and more… – THE FABRIKATOR WAS UGLY, noisy, a fire hazard, and it smelled. Borislav got it for the kids in the neighborhood. One snowy morning, in his work gloves, long coat, and fur hat, he loudly power-sawed through […]
