Airbus is strongly going into 3d printing parts for aerospace applications
Big USA players like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and GE are already heavily into additive manufacturing, and Chinese are already printing big parts of jet fighters. European main aircraft producer Airbus...
View ArticleMolten3D TIG welding DIY metal 3d printer by Steve Delaire
Here is new DIY 3d metal printer based on a TIG welding (Tungsten Inert Gas) process created by Steve Delaire. It is still under development but the project is very interesting as is any attempt to...
View Article3d Bioprinting introduction, possibilities, problems and current state of...
All you wanted to know about bioprinting and 3d printing with living cells summarized in 20 minute video. Must-watch if you are interested in the topic. Wei gives great overview of the field and...
View ArticleFully mechanical and analogue 3D printer
Daniel de Bruin made this fully mechanical and analogue 3d printer. No electric motors or electronic controls. Only weights, gears, chains, sprockets and pulleys will 3d print with clay paste and...
View Article3d printable dog bowl water bottle carrier
This is very practical! We have two dogs and we carry water bowl when we go to nature. This is much better! I'm making this on weekend!http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:119689
View ArticleFully functional RC plane made with 3Doodler
We already saw functional quadcopter made with 3d drawing pen, now there is fully functional flying RC plane made with 3Doodler by Matthew Butchard from the United Kingdom.I had my suspicions about...
View ArticleHacking used cars with 3d printed custom air intake parts
Someone posted a video that shows how he uses 3d printer to make a custom car part to do some automotive hacking. The part connects air intake and carburetor of two different car types. It links VW...
View ArticleFirst (almost) fully 3d printed RC vehicle made by Michael Curry
Michael Curry developed and built fully 3D printed RC vehicle. The car weighs about 70 pounds and required $700 of PLA filament to print, it was printed over the time frame of five months. The majority...
View ArticleLocal Motors shows the first drive of their 3d printed electric car
While there is no new information about Urbee 3d printed car, Local Motors is advancing their technology and they just released video of their vehicles first drive.Only the inner passenger compartment...
View ArticlePrinteer 3d printer and iPad app designed for children and schools
Printeer is designed to be children frinedly 3d printer and to work in combination with simple iPad modeling application also fitted for young users.Their Kickstarter campaign is going well since they...
View ArticleHow to create mold for rubber objects with 3d printing
Rachel Yalisove created great step-by-step tutorial on Instructables on how to create 3d printed mold for rubber objects.You can see it here:http://www.instructables.com/id/3d-Printed-Rubber-Mold/
View ArticleRepScrap DIY 3d printer from salvaged InkJet parts made by Michael Ball
Michael Ball decided to make a 3d printer from discarded printer and scanner parts like some people before him. His build process is very well documented and very educational especially about motor and...
View ArticleRobohoand claims biggest 3d print farm in the world with 53 machines but...
Robohand is a great project for low cost prosthetics and they claim that they operate world's biggest 3d printer far with 53...
View Article3d printed human organs that generate electricity for medical implants from...
Bioprinting is advancing rapidly, with many obstacles ahead, but at University of Iowa they are already planing to make "enhanced" 3d printed "superorgans" which also produce electricity that could be...
View ArticleNew method of DIY 3d printing aluminum with alumina wet paste extrusion
Italian WASP is experimenting with new method to 3d print in aluminum. It uses wet mixture of alumina (Aluminium Oxide Al2O3) extruded trough syringe extruder.Alumina powder is mixed in different...
View ArticleNew larger size 1mm nozzle sold by German RepRap
German RepRap is selling new 1mm hot end nozzle which can cut in half the printing time. The trade-off is rougher surface finish and more visible layers. So, the target audience is someone who needs...
View ArticleRepYourCity street art challenge by Thre3D
There are some prizes in this people! Go and make stuff!
View ArticleNew SCARA 3d printer design by Sean (a.k.a. CLaNZeR) from UK based CNC Design...
SCARA 3d printers are not so common, but there is a new machine under development by Sean (a.k.a. CLaNZeR) from UK based CNC Design Limited. The prototype is currently in version MK3 with physical size...
View ArticleHow to make the Microwave sub-100$ color 3D scanner for small objects
Microwave is very simple and cheap DIY 3d scanner that anyone can make for under 100 USD designed by sfaryne. It uses your smartphone to take burst photos of the object, homemade lightbox and couple of...
View ArticleFree online 3d model file type converter
Alexander Gessler made this free and useful online tool to convert many different 3d model file types.It is a handy tool to convert 3D models from one file format to another (i.e. FBX to OBJ or OBJ to...
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