The next Hot Wheels? 3D print your own personalized cars and race them throughout the house. Who could ever forget waking up on Christmas morning to find a remote-controlled race car set under the tree? Or, how about heading out to the local Toys”R”Us to grab yourself the latest Mario Kart game (or should we say ‘Kartridge’) to slip into your Super NES? Well now, Rome-based […]
This 3D printer is blending plastics and electronics in the same printed object. Traditionally, electronic circuit boards are manufactured in standard shapes. However, Voxel8 has unveiled a new 3D printing platform that brings together functional materials, hardware and software to give designers a once inconceivable way to integrate electronics into their projects. While previous electronics printing efforts have involved either retrofitting existing […]
After a misdiagnosis of a brain tumor, one Maker turned to 3D printing and imaging. Without question, 3D printing is rapidly evolving. All you needed to do was take a look around CES 2015 to note that the technology is inching closer and closer to mainstream popularity. One area in particular making great strides is the medical space, as we’ve seen everything in […]
A desktop friendly consumer 3D printer that won’t scare your wallet. You may recall the Cobblebot 3D Printer from its successful Kickstarter campaign last summer. Like a number of other low-cost devices on the market today, it was powered by an Arduino Mega 2560 (ATmega2560) and boasted an impressively-sized build area, allowing Makers to create objects up to 15″ x […]
Now that’s one heck of a Maker’s ‘dream weaver.’ A group of Digital Craft Lab students recently developed a seven-foot-tall 3D printer, aptly dubbed Space Weaver, that is designed to create ultra-lightweight woven structures with fibrous materials, rather than the plastics usually extruded by similar machines. Led by our friend Michael Shiloh and fellow Future Cities Lab instructor Jason […]
Another day, another animal given a new lease on life thanks to 3D printing. While we’ve previously seen TurboRoo the cute Chihuahua receive a wheelchair-like apparatus and a duck dubbed Quack Quack be fitted with braces, this time is a husky mix named Derby who had been born with deformed legs. With the help of the 3DSystems crew and a team of […]
Over the past several months, we’ve seen quite a bit of Makers designing home-brew 3D printers — a trend that has surely emerged throughout open-source RepRap movement. A vast majority of them have been constructed on a shoestring budget, fully-functional and impressive nonetheless. As we round out another year, we’ve decided to take a look back at some of the our […]
Several months back, 15-year-old Braden designed a DIY 3D printer with an approximate $400 build of materials (BOM). The Delta Twister build — which was recently posted to Instructables — had also been an entry in the site’s Arduino contest earlier in the year. “Anyone can build the Delta Twister! You don’t need any 3D printed parts or […]
Undoubtedly, 2014 has emerged as quite the watershed year for 3D-printed prosthetics. Whereas traditional transfemoral and transhumeral prostheses can set a patient back anywhere between $10,000 to $15,000 every three to four years due to wear and tear, 3D printing is proving to be a much more efficient, cost-effective alternative. Thanks to the rise of [Atmel based] 3D printers, a lifetime of […]
This mini Roomba-like printer will make paper trays and feeders a thing of the past. Think printing is boring? Tedious? Annoying? You may want to check those thoughts at the door after seeing this pocket-sized printer from a team of young Makers. After making its Kickstarter debut last year, Jerusalem-based ZUta Labs is ready to begin production on its revolutionary little gadget, aptly dubbed the Pocket Printer. The way we […]
