MAKE’s 3D Printer Testing Results
We name the standouts from our 3D printer buyer’s guide, on newsstands Nov 12.
3D Printing & Imaging
If you’re a maker, 3d printing is an incredibly useful tool to have in your arsenal. Not only can it help bring your projects to life faster, but it can also offer unique results that would be difficult (or impossible!) to achieve with traditional methods. In these blog posts, we’ll provide you with some essential information and tips regarding 3D printing for makers—including the basics of how to get started, plus creative tutorials for spicing up your projects. Whether you’re already familiar with 3d printing or are just starting out, these resources will help take your game-making skills even further!
MAKE’s 3D Printing Lab to be Recreated for Engadget Expand This Weekend
At Engadget Expand this weekend, the MAKE crew will be reproducing the test environment we created to put 23 printers through their paces for our soon-to-be released Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing. The special issue will be unveiled at the event. We’ll have five printers on hand (Printrbot Simple, Ultimaker 2, Replicator 2, Up Plus 2, Felix 2.0) and a team of testers including MAKE’s digital fabrication editor Anna Kaziunas France.
Raspberry Pi “Kitchen” set for Engadget Expand in NYC Nov. 9-10
At the Raspberry Pi Kitchen, Matt Richardson, MAKE contributing editor and co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi, will host a “make-off” with two teams of four each who will spend the weekend developing a product or device that uses components and tools from the “pantry” as they take the basic “ingredients” and turn out an tasty final product.
Make the World: Prosthetics Build Party
Adafruit Industries just hosted the final session of their Make The World: Prosthetics Program. To help out, Matt Stultz of 3D Printing Providence put together a build party at AS220 Labs with 19 local 3D printers to make prosthetic hands for those in need.
Formlabs Raises $19 million in Funding
Formlabs, which raised nearly $3 million last year on Kickstarter to produce a high resolution consumer 3D printer, announced today that it has raised an additional $19 million from a group of investors.
5 Fun Projects to 3D Print
Print figurines and toys, learn scanning and modeling tricks, and make an extruder from a diesel glow plug!
3D Printing Umbilical Cord Clamps in Haiti
Our organization, iLab // Haiti has brought the first two 3D printers (Replicator 1’s) to the country of Haiti. We’re teaching them to 3D model using SketchUp and Rhino, with the hope of teaching Autodesk’s Inventor. They will be printing medical devices like umbilical cord clamps, to bypass the inefficient and corrupt import systems that are currently the only option available.
