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!
The world has yet to find the best way to manage a spool of plastic. I’m forever almost ‘running out’ before pulling out a little more from the spool. Thingiverse user mraiser’s Even Cheaper & Lazier Filament Spindle consists solely of 3D printable parts and marbles.
From MAKE subscriber Nikolaus Gradwohl of Vienna: This is a small how-to video that explains how to design and print a cookiecutter using my Cookie-Cutter-Editor and a makerbot.
My colleague Sean Ragan recently discovered that rather than pay for Shapeways’ colorized outputs, it was easier, cheaper, and more durable to buy the basic white and colorize it with a marker. The cheapest and, reportedly, strongest material in which Shapeways models are available is called “White, strong and flexible.” I herein report that this […]
Thingiverse user mrule created this polygon with two kinds of 3D-printable vertices that snap together. For instance, ten each of the two parts can form an icosahedron.
Dirk Vander Kooij is taking 3d printing to a whole new scale with his series of chairs made from recycled fridge plastic.
Save the date: Botacon, a new conference for robots and the people who are creative near them, is happening next weekend at the Brooklyn Lyceum. If you’re at all interested in robots and the robot art world, it should be a great time: A new day is dawning for robotics. The tools of manufacturing have […]
In the concluding fourth part of the car keys series on the MakerBot blog, a sturdy replacement housing for a cracked plastic keyfob is reproduced: One half has a 2mm lip and the other has a 2mm groove – the result is a case that required channel lock pliers to shut… but isn’t coming apart […]
