Blue Eagle Labs’ Kossel Clear Kicks Kickstarter’s Ass
Kickstarter is the place to fund 3D printing related projects. It’s been proven time and time again. And the thing about it is: it happens fast. The Kossel Clear Delta 3D Printer is a case in point....
View ArticleMixeeLabs Launches Customizable 3D Printed Wallets
MixeeLabs, the online app that brought you customizable cufflinks and Mixee Me figurines, has launched a new Creator for your 3D-printed needs: the Snap Wallet. This latest Creator, designed by...
View ArticleMichigan Tech Study Says: “The RepRap is an economically attractive...
For those of you who are still unsure of whether or not home 3D printing will take off, here’s a study, originally published in Mechatronics, that uses a lot of academic language to say that it will....
View ArticleDo Not 3D-Print: MIT Hackers Duplicate “Non-Duplicatable” High-Security Keys
Three MIT electrical engineering students have used 3D printing to get around the pesky “Do Not Duplicate” label engraved on the keys to your apartment, and to high-security locks everywhere. David...
View ArticleNight of the Living Patents: 3D Printing Resurrects Old Inventions
Hidden behind the debates regarding 3D printing and patent law – is it good? is it bad? is it a sandwich? – is a 31-year-old New York patent lawyer named Martin Galese that brings a sense of humor and...
View ArticleRenishaw Contributes 3D Printing to the Bloodhound SSC Project
Day in, day out, I am disappointed by ordinary cars, moving at the mere speed of a cheetah through causeways, through tunnels around the corners of my little life. Day in, day out, I dream of a world...
View ArticleIndiegogo Gives the Little Guy a Go: Saulo Quevedo’s Delta 3D Printer
According to a recent analysis conducted by The Verge, the odds of an Indiegogo campaign reaching its full funding aren’t that high. Only 9.3% of the 142,301 projects posted on Indiegogo have been...
View ArticleRepRap U: Rice University’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Institute
As part of a growing trend of “official institutions” embracing DIY culture (see also Chicago Public Library’s Hackspace or DARPA’s partnership with Make Magazine, etc.) Rice University and the RepRap...
View ArticleLOHAN to Get High Enough to See Stars: 3D Printed Spaceplane from The Register
Not since Lance Bass was going to shoot himself into oblivion has a celebrity made space-related headlines like The Register’s PARIS and LOHAN projects. In 2010, the Special Projects Bureau of UK tech...
View ArticleWARNING: This DIY Bear Trap is for Trapping Bears ONLY
The constant threat of bears can produce a fear so incapacitating that it becomes difficult to even attend to daily responsibilities, such as going to work or grooming our pets. Sitting at home with...
View ArticleThe Queer Art of 3D Printed Failure
Messing up royally is meant to teach us a lesson about how to achieve success during subsequent trials. If it’s embarrassing, devastating, even painful, we will remember, in our minds and muscles, to...
View ArticleTungsten Checks In: ExOne Teams with rp+m to 3D Print Tungsten
You may have heard of tungsten. No, Tungsten isn’t Bertie Wooster’s nebbish friend who’s more interested in toads than being courted by one of the Wooster women. Found in almost everything, from...
View ArticleIsis One 3D Printer and The Real RepRaps of Chicago
As we delve deeper into the 3D printing trend and more startups make their way into the marketplace, it’s difficult to determine which startups contribute to the advancement of 3D printing technology...
View ArticleMicrofactory + FABtotum = The Rise of Hybrid ∞ Manufacturing
Most in the 3D printing community know that 3D printing is only the beginning, that additive manufacturing is only a component in something more to come. A patent filed by iRobot earlier this year for...
View ArticleZazzy’s 3D Printed Parties for Your Arms
As 3D printing opens up new possibilities for mass customization, there will be more and more companies that hope to use this to their advantage. MixeeLabs, the US-based Shapeways partner that offers...
View ArticleFears Materialize as Wearable Artwork
I had this terrifying dream once where I was arrested and thrown into the prison cell of a small, European jail. The guard was dressed in a cartoonish blue uniform with a badge on his cap and a billy...
View Article3D Printed Fashion Forward Tags for Your Furry Friend
Finally, I get to post about dogs! MixeeLabs, which offers online customizable products produced through Shapeways, has launched a new Creator. This time, it’s dog-related! Their new Dog Bone Tag,...
View ArticleIs it 3D Printing? MIT Researchers Construct Building Blocks
Recently, we’ve received a little flak for covering a certain pen-like piece of tech that may or may not be considered 3D printing. There’s definitely a divide of strong opinions, but probably a larger...
View ArticleZeus is Not Just a God. He’s a 3D Printing Fax Machine.
Zeus, the Greek god known for transforming into animals and doing ungodly things to mortals, has reinvented himself once again, in the form of a prototype for a highly capable 3D printer. Produced by...
View Article3D Printed Art Inspired by Love
Art is okay and everything, but when it’s inspired by love, that’s when I become a sucker. LA-based Daksh Sahni has collaborated with his fiance, Simone Alexandrino, to translate his partner’s 2D...
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