PopMech Likes Tinkercad for 3D Newbies
What’s the best way to get started 3D modeling? PopMech likes Tinkercad.
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 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!
Makerslide: Prototyping 3D Tools Made Easier
Travis Good takes a look at Makerslide, a linear tracking and frame system for building personal fabrication machines.
Absurd iPhone Accessories on Thingiverse
Makerbot and Thingiverse just cosponsored a contest to design the most absurd 3D printable iPhone accessory! Check out a few of our favorite entries!
3D-Printed Circuit Boards
An interesting idea for printing a circuit board by Thingiverse user CarryTheWhat. The goal of this project is to enable the personal manufacturing of simple electronics, especially for Open Source Hardware — with nothing except a 3D printer, your hands or equivalent, and the basic high-technology electronic components (capacitors, motors, transistors, etc — but note […]
MakerBot TV: What Is Open Source?
The second season of MakerBot TV is off to a great start. In this third episode, MakerBot co-founder Bre Pettis talks about the power of open source.
Universal Adapter Set for Construction Toys
Not a physical product, of course, but a physible one, from anonymous designers at the F.A.T. collective. I’d vote against the naughty acronym, personally, but they do thrive on controversy, those F.A.T. peeps.
Nanometer Scale 3D Printer
Researchers Jan Torgersen and Peter Gruber at Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna) have successfully printed intricately detailed models of various objects at the nanometer scale using a process called “two-photon lithography”. In the process, they also managed to speed things up a bit and have gone from printing in millimeters per second to meters […]