The Big List: Make These Projects to Fight COVID-19 Right Now
With innovators and makers all over rising up to help combat Covid-19, we’ve organized a list of the viable projects and endeavors that you can help do and create yourself.
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!
Build This Food Takeout “Airlock” to Fight Covid-19
๏ปฟ As restaurants are forced by the coronavirus crisis to close dining rooms and serve takeout only, hereโs a DIY project to help them make the pivot as safely as possible, for their retail workers and their customers. San Franciscoโs robotic burger restaurant, Creator, has designed a take-out transfer window that works like a mini […]
How Prusa Is Using The Worlds Largest 3D Printing Farm To Help Hospitals
and a few very important notes about where 3dprinting is helpful, and where it is not
3D Printing With Peanut Butter: Assembling And Testing The Cerambot
I supported the kickstarter for the Cerambot last year, knowing full well that there was a chance my $350 was simply gone (one should assume this with any kickstarter). However, they delivered! I got my printer and now I have to put in the time and effort to actually print with it. Assembly Assembly of […]
Get Early Bird Tickets To Construct 3D
Coming up in early February, there’s an event that you shouldn’t miss if you’re into 3D printing, especially in academia. Construct3D is being held at Rice University in Houston Texas on February 13-16. At this event there will be talks, art exhibitions, and sponosr exhibits, all focusing on various additive technologies. Just to give you […]
Quick Look: Prusa Sl1 Resin 3D Printer
We had the opportunity to explore Prusa’s latest entry into the 3D printing market, the SL1. This is a masked SLA printer, which means that the resin is cured via a UV lamp, that shines through an LCD screen up into the vat of resin.ย The current trend in this market has been to cut […]
8 Last Minute 3D Prints To Spookify Your Halloween
Makers usually love Halloween. What’s not to love? Spooky images, fantastic costumes, frolicking in the chilly fall dusk. It really is a wonderful holiday. However, many of us just have so much going on, we can’t celebrate to the extent we’d like. Maybe you live in a dorm, maybe you’ve been too busy to build […]
