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University of Arizona students design and launch 3d printed rocket
Another example of how the space race will be won by young, innovators, DIY-rs and private companies with some help of 3d printing. Governments are slow and expensive.This project was developed with...
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BEA Systems wants to have drones onboard 3d printing drones by 2040
BEA Systems is major military and aerospace technology company and they have presented some future concepts.Scientists and engineers at BAE Systems have lifted the lid on some futuristic technologies...
View ArticleIs Makible in some sort of problems? Will Makibox 3d printer survive?
Is Makible in some sort of operational / financial problems? Will they (continue to) deliver and produce 3d printers?From Makible press release:Makible recently reached its third year of business,...
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3d printing with waste coffee and clay composite
Francesco Pacelli experiments with mixture of used ground coffee and clay in order to get more stabilized mixture to print it trough a syringe. After the deposition the object needs to be burn in kiln...
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Maersk wants to 3d print replacement parts on their ships to reduce cost
Maersk is huge shipping and industrial conglomerate from Denmark. It has been the largest container ship operator and supply vessel operator in the world since 1996.When they say that they want to use...
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Cross screw drive for a build plate
Nicholas Seward designed this cross screw drive system that moves XY axis on a 3d printing build plate. He did it as a kind of defensive patenting by putting it in public domain.Similar systems based...
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How to clean and remove partial nozzle clogging
You may even not know that your nozzle is partially clogged. Eric William made this excellent tutorial on how to fix partially clogged nozzle and improve 3d print quality.You will need acetone and some...
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Kazzata online marketplace for 3d printed spare parts
Kazzata is online marketplace for 3d printable spare parts. The idea is to connect designers and those in need of replacement parts.The idea is interesting but I'm not sure how would they deal with all...
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How to print NinjaFlex on Printrbot Simple with small 3d printed extruder...
Good people of Adafruit made this tutorial on how to enable your Printrbot extruder to properly work with Ninjafelx filament. All it takes is small 3d printable part and you are good to go ...Detailed...
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Sculptify David 3d printer uses pellets for Fused Layer Extrusion
Sculptify David is new 3d printer that uses pellets for printing. The company calls this new 3d printing technology FLEX or Fused Layer Extrusion.Sculptify David technical specifications:Printing...
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MakerBot starts to sell their printers in Home Depot. Is this the beginning...
Red Pill Philosophy has an interesting opinion on this business move. The point is that the Home Depot is selling the technology which will drive it out of the business at the end.Maybe this is...
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Upgrade your Printrbot with 3D printed version of the Printrbot direct drive...
You can upgrade your Printrbot 3d printer with 3d printed version of newer direct drive aluminum extruder design. This extruder allows easier filament loading, more visibility when diagnosing jams and...
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Genkei gigantic 4 meter tall Delta 3d printer from Japan
Genkei is comapny from Japan that produces 3d printer. They made this enormous 4 meter tall Delta 3d printer. I think it is not designed to be real production printer, but more of a demonstration and...
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Esun nozzle cleaning filament
Shenzhen based Esun company sells the filament they developed that should clean your extruder and nozzle.Composition of this filament is unknown but it is probably similar to nylon. Nylon filament is...
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Protoprint will produce filament from garbage in partnership with Indian...
Protoprint is a social enterprise based in India that empowers waste pickers with the technology to produce 3D printer filament from waste plastic. They set up their waste plastic processing and...
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FilaSoy is soy based 3d printing filament developed by Purdue University...
Team of students from Purdue University developed a new 3d printing filament made from polylactide (PLA) which is made from corn, starch, tapioca root and sugar cane and 20-25% soy materials.FilaSoy...
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BioFila Silk and Linen lignin based 3d printing filaments
BioFila is new 3d printing filament based on lignin, a complex polymer of aromatic alcohols known as monolignols. It is a completely new material and not just PLA+filler, 100% biodegradable and made...
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Print on the pavement with Revolution bike wheel 3d printed rolling stamp
Revolution is a part of Streettoolbox which is a collaborative platform for activists providing new ways of public expression. It enables you to find opensource instructions for making new tools to put...
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DIY RasPI powered gameboy with 3d printed enclosure
Here is another great project by Adafruit. You can build you own portable Gameboy clone and load it up with one of many custom ROM packages. I wish I had the time to build this, but it will go to the...
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ZYYX 3d printer from Sweden
ZYYX is new 3d printer from Sweden. It has several key features like: carbon air filter for the fumes, it doesn't use custom filament cartilages (yes, it is a feature in current market), it has...
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