Leapfrog’s 3D Printer Giveaway Celebrating A Year in Business
After one year of leaping through the additive manufacturing market, Netherlands-based Leapfrog is joining the spree of online 3D printing giveaways. They’re celebrating their one-year anniversary by...
View ArticleGiving New Meaning to the Phrase Photo-Bombing
We’ve seen it before, the use of 3D printing to bring idle objects back from the brink of obsolescence. In fact, some of the first news about 3D printing to hit the mainstream was of Jay Leno’s use of...
View Article3D Printing Invisibility
Whether you’re a mercenary who wishes to remain undetected as part of a covert war in Yemen or just a pimply teenager who wishes to remain undetected in high school, everybody wants to be invisible at...
View Article3D Printing World Peace
In the wake of the hype surrounding Defense Distributed’s reckless release of CAD files for the 3D-printed gun, Michigan Tech has decided to counter the group’s negative impact on the technology and...
View ArticleThe Bay Area Goes Maker Mad
And so it begins: the rallying cry has been made for Makers from all over to descend on the Bay Area to connect, learn, and make. The Bay Area Maker Faire 2013 begins this weekend May 18th – 19th at...
View ArticleInMoov, the Free, Open Source 3D Printed Robot is Motoring
It’d been awhile since I caught up with Gaël Langevin and his awesome InMoov robot, but when I did, I found that Gaël was still able to impress. The robot, designed by a prop sculptor based in Paris,...
View ArticleChina to Open 10 3D Printing Innovation Centers
If I know anything about foreign affairs and international economics – and I don’t know much – I’d say that China’s entry into the world of 3D printing is a signal that this technology is completely...
View ArticleW. Afate: Recycling 1st World Waste into New World Solutions
The cost of technological progress is that, with each exponential leap of Moore’s Law, obsolete machinery is cast away as garbage. And, because discarded electronics often contain harmful components...
View ArticleTake A Peak Inside ‘Crash Space’ — The Above Ground, Underground Hackerspace...
The sound of heavy metal whirring amid conversations about the coolest things I can imagine will be a signal that something is happening. This group will not be like the ones that preceded it. These...
View ArticleMath Mobiles Made Possible with 3D Printing
Earlier this year, 3DPI reported on the Bits to Its 3D Printing Art Show that selected artwork from around the world to display in the Landing Gallery in Rockford, Maine. The show was the result of a...
View ArticleAnyone Up for a Roadtrip? — Shapeways’ Is!
Jack Kerouac, John Steinbeck, and, now, Savannah Peterson of Shapeways. From MTV’s Road Rules to the forced migration of peoples, road trips have become a defining characteristic of the American...
View ArticleOpenBeam’s Kossel Pro 3D Printer Looks to be Heading towards Success on...
For the members of OpenBeam, not all 3D printers are created equal and this is particularly true of RepRaps. According to the team, using 3D printers to make 3D printers is both inefficient, as the...
View ArticleSugar Lab — 3D Printing Just Got Sweeter
Have you ever seen a 3D printed artifact and thought, “Hell, that looks good enough to eat!”, only to find that it’s made of indigestible ABS plastic? Husband and wife team Kyle and Liz has solved this...
View Article3D Printing Material — Rock, Paper….. Salt
As the list of materials that can be used in 3D printing expands daily, Oakland-based research and design firm Emerging Objects does its part to contribute to and utilize that list in its quest to...
View ArticleLocal Motors 3D Printed Mirror Mods
You may have heard of Local Motors, the open source and crowd built automotive design company. As one might expect from a car company that has car purchasers build the car they buy, Local Motors has...
View ArticleCan 3D Printed Jet Engine Parts Save Us from Global Warming?
With air travel steadily increasing and jet exhaust contributing to about 3% of global CO2 emissions, it’s become clear that something needs to be done about the effect that jet engines have on the...
View ArticleReprap Morgan in its Natural Habitat
There’s this popular belief, at least where I’m from, that competition and economic incentive drive diversity in the marketplace. What the open source and RepRap movements have continuously shown is...
View ArticleThe Living Wall Bridge and Platige Bring Art to Life
Man, I love the world. It’s always been really beautiful, but sometimes we humans actually realize that it is and respond accordingly. And, to me at least, that’s the sign of good abstract art. Bridge,...
View ArticleXYZ Shoes – Custom Footwear by Earl Stewart
Recently, I was watching an episode of the Colbert Report in which the guest was Daniel Lieberman, professor of Evolutionary Biology at Harvard. Lieberman explained that the use of shoes in most of...
View Article360Heros: Record Anything and Everything
Since the beginning of time, humanity has desired the following three abilities: the power of flight, precognition, and, of course, the ability to see from all 360 degrees at once. The first was...
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