Prusa I3 Mk2 released!!!
Prusa I3 Mk2 was just released and it looks great! Many new improvements in a proven design!Here is a presentation by Josef Prusa:New key features in Mk2:31% bigger build volume - 10500 cm3 (25 x 21 x...
View ArticlePrecious Plastic DIY Plastic Recycling Machinery
Dave Hakkens developed a great set of open sourced DIY machines for recycling plastic. There are several machines including a 3d printing filament extruder. Every device is well documented with...
View Article3D Printed DIY Battery Packs from Old Laptop Batteries
I found two old discarded batteries from HP and Lenovo laptops I owned which did not hold the charge and I was wandering what to do with them. I googled and found that they may actually hold 18650...
View ArticleNew Cura 2.1.2 is out!
New Cura software in version 2.1.2.is released. As all releases it has some interesting new features:Select Multiple ObjectsYou now have the freedom to select and manipulate multiple objects at the...
View ArticleSteampunk Style DIY 3D Printer
Someone on SyFyCity Tumblr made a custom steampunk styled 3d printer that looks amazing. Kudos man!You can see different steampunk styled machine...
View ArticleReal-time Wireframe 3D Printing Directly from CAD
Researchers at Cornell made a modified 3d printer that prints on-the-fly as the model is developed in a CAD software. It has 6 axis of movement with mist cooling and cutter head to produce wire-frame...
View ArticleKiri:Moto Web Based Slicer for your 3D Printer, Laser Cutter and CNC Machine
Kiri:Moto is a new free web based slicer that can be used for FDM printers, laser cutters and CNC machines.Kiri:Moto is an extensible, multi-purpose slicing and visualization engine that produces...
View ArticleIndustrial Size 3D Printed Wind Blade Mold
How big can you go with high-end industrial 3D printers? VERY big! Here is a wind blade mold for research in wind power.The mold for making the blades is being printed using the Big Area Additive...
View ArticleLow Cost Fully 3D Printed UAV Developed by Airbus
Thor is a fully 3D printable UAV (unmanned aircraft vehicle) developed by Airbus with production price of some 20000 Euro. The cost could probably go even further down, but it is many times cheaper...
View Article3D Printable Land Sailer Toy from Thailand
KungRC from Suphanburi,Thailand published a 3D printable land sailing vehicle that is remotely controlled.He used a 10mm aluminum rods for structure and 100mm roller blade wheels. It is 3d printed on...
View ArticleTend.ai Robotic Servant for your 3D Printer Farm
Tend.ai developed cloud robotics solution that enables a robotic arm to operate your 3d printer farm. You do not need to know how to program the robot since it uses a webcam and machine learning to...
View ArticlePleurobot Robotic Salamander
Pleurobot is a robotic salamander with 3d printed skeleton that was developed on the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland.Look at it...
View ArticleDIY Spinning Wheel Made On a 3D Printer
Peter Kobrin design and 3D printed a spinning wheel for his wife. Spinning wheel was used to make yarn or thread from fiber (like raw wool) which were then woven into fabric. All parts are 3D printed...
View ArticleBCN3D Moveo Open Source 3D Printed Robotic Arm
BCN3D presents Moveo, a fully 3d printable open source robotic arm. Another step toward fully robotic world where we puny humans will be free of any work :-)From project description:BCN3D Technologies...
View ArticleThor Open Source Robotic Arm from Spain
Thor is an Open Source and 3D printable robotic arm with six degrees of freedom developed by Ángel Larrañaga Muro from Madrid, Spain.Its configuration (yaw-roll-roll-yaw-roll-yaw) is the same one that...
View ArticleEasy WiFi 3D Printer sharing with Microsoft IoT Core
I'm not a Microsoft fan but it looks like their IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi can get easy WiFi connectivity and network sharing for many popular 3D printers with simple app install.Here is the video...
View ArticleIntroduction to Stepper Motors
Here is a great video that explains everything you wanted to know about stepper motors but were afraid to ask :-)Great work GreatScott! Thanks for the content!
View ArticleLaser-assisted Advanced 3D Printing with Silver Ink
Researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) developed a new 3D printing method.They use a...
View Article3DGence ONE review by 3D Printing Nerd
Here is a review of 3DGence ONE by Joel, the 3D Printing Nerd. The ONE is a flagship that is built like a tank with some interesting features.Here is the 3DGence homepage:http://3dgence.com/
View ArticleSingle Actuator Wave-like 3D Printed Robot
SAW is a 3d printed robot that can crawl, swim and climb using wave motions with only one motor. And it looks creepy.From project description:SAW (single actuator wave-like robot) is the first robot...
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