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!
Just spotted this nifty concept by Thingiverse user cathalgarvey. He calls it a “DremelFuge.” It’s a centrifuge attachment for your drill or motor-tool that holds six Eppendorf tubes. Dunno how well it would actually work, as it looks heavy to mount in a Dremel tool, and most drills don’t spin nearly that fast. Still, clever thinking.
A beautiful piece of glass-filled nylon jewelry, which I think was a senior design project, from Molly Epstein of Temple University. [via Boing Boing]
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.
