Digital fabrication tools have revolutionized the way designers, engineers, and artisans express their creativity. With the right resources, you can learn to use these powerful instruments in no time! Whether it’s 3D printing or laser cutting that interests you, these articles will provide useful tutorials and inspiration for makers of all levels. Discover how digital fabrication can open up new possibilities so that your craftsmanship is truly extraordinary!
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 […]
Big news! We’re SO EXCITED to announce the winners in the MAKE/MakerBot CupCake CNC 3D printer kit giveaway! Participants were asked to design 3D objects and upload them to Thingiverse, where they were judged by Bre Pettis, Gareth Branwyn, and Becky Stern based on complexity, ingenuity, and “MakerBottability,” or how likely they are to print […]
b r e e d… Breed is a computer program that uses artificial evolution to grow very detailed sculptures. The purpose of each growth is to generate by cell division from a single cell a detailed form that can be materialised. On the basis of selection and mutation a code is gradually developed that best […]
I love the simplicity of this flashlight that Thingiverse user degroof created. All you do is print up the case and add an LED and coin cell.
This nicely designed robot, the MakerBot Defender by Thingiverse user DemonDust doesn’t pack any electronics and apparently its mechanical parts don’t work as well as one would like, but it’s nicely designed and even comes with its own fictional back-story!
The Twin Cities’ communal workshop, the Hack Factory, bought a MakerBot CupCake 3D printer. Working for about six hours, some of my cohorts assembled the X and Y stages and partially installed the assembly in the body. With any luck we’ll be printing this time next week. We’re all excited to finally have a 3D […]
