First Look: Printrbot Unveils Its All-Metal 3D Printer
Printrbot’s new all-metal 3D printer is a beauty.
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faBrickation: 3D Printing + Lego for Fast Prototyping
faBrickation is a new approach to speed up 3D printed rapid prototyping. The key idea is to save time by only printing the parts that require the high resolution and to substitute the remaining volume with standard Lego bricks.
Drones and Makerspaces: Best Marriage Since Chocolate and Peanut Butter
About 50 drone enthusiasts from the DC Area Drone User Group swarmed Nova Labs this past Sunday for an all day build and fly session. Here’s a montage of the event.
Afinia Responds to Stratasys II: You Failed To Disclose Old Patents, Printers
Today, Afinia took another big shot at Stratasys’ 3D printing patents. In its amended response, Afinia attempted to bolster its claim in three ways: with further evidence that Stratasys was using its patents to monopolize the market, with evidence that Stratasys failed to show the Patent Office one of its own patents that undermined the novelty of a new patent it was applying for, and with evidence that Stratasys failed to show Patent Office one of its own printers that undermined the novelty of another new patent it was applying for.
A Closer Look at CubeJet’s Flexible, Full Color Powder Printing
At CES, I was able to take a video of the CubeJet, a flexible, full color printer. So far, the other full color 3D printing options are the Mcor Iris and the ZPrinter.
How to Improve a RC Quadcopter Design
My job at 3D Systems gives me the 3D tools to tinker at a high level. The highest level, really, considering we’ve got scanning, design, and 3D printing right here. I’m a lucky guy. So when my quadcopter started to show some of its design flaws, I took to a Batcave’s worth of equipment around here that’s just waiting to be used.
The State of 3D Printing and Scanning After CES 2014: The Push For Mainstreaming Begins
The movement to mainstream 3D printing is aggressively pursuing a sea change that replaces “experimental” with “easy”.
