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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!
I love these hand-screened MakerBot T’s, done by 1AEON. Want. MakerBot 1AEON T-Shirt
Richard Kline writes: Non circular gears are strange. When the topic of square gear trains appears in casual conversation, people tend to think a joke is being made, that it is ‘impossible’ to make a square gear that actually meshes properly. After being drawn into a vicious debate with a co-worker about the existence and […]
Thanks to all who joined our live 3D printing webcast where we used my MakerBot CupCake CNC machine to print out Sean Ragan’s animal pentominoes puzzle pieces! Over 250 of you stopped by over the course of the hour, and it was so fun chatting with you! We’d like to do more live events in […]
Have you seen the rad pentominoes animal puzzle that Make: Online Contributing Writer Sean Ragan made using OpenSCAD? Check out his tutorial for this open solid 3D modeling software and then join us on Ustream at 1pm EST (10am PST) where we’ll be printing the puzzle pieces in a live webcast. Sean and I will […]
In this tutorial, I’m going to show you how to use OpenSCAD to produce a simple 3D model by extruding a part profile produced in normal drawing software. I use Adobe Illustrator CS3 because I have access to it and am familiar with its interface, but the popular freeware drawing program InkScape will read and write DXF files natively, and there’s no reason why it couldn’t serve just as well if you prefer it. There are a number of other free and low-cost programs that will export DXF files. OpenSCAD’s developer mentions QCAD, which is available from its developer RibbonSoft for 24EUR.
Join me and fellow Make: Online contributor Sean Ragan this Friday for some LIVE 3D printing action using my MakerBot CupCake CNC machine. This will coincide with a Make: Projects 3D modeling tutorial using OpenSCAD, and will give you a chance to ask us questions about the models, the machine, and see it BZZTREEAAOOWWWing live […]
My first print! OK, this really isn’t my first print, it’s actually my second print. Not bad, huh? My first print was a “raft” that didn’t stick. I did a little research online and found that my temperature was probably too cold. I increased the temperature by about 15 Degrees C and it worked perfectly […]