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!
Microsoft has just made its mark on 3D printing with its announcement of built-in support for 3D printing in Windows 8.1. Now I don’t usually do blog posts like this where I pretend to keep up with news, but I see nothing but hollow rehashes (actual headline: “Microsoft Moves to Simplify 3-D Printing”) and vaguely 3D printing related filler on the tech pop media about this story.
MAKE kits, books, wearables, as well as Printerbot and Ultimaker 3D printers, and RaspberryPi, Arduino and BeagleBone boards all for sale this weekend at Maker Faire Kansas City 2013.
Creating figurines of your favorite video games characters can be easy. In-game models are ripe for full-color 3D printing. A lot of 3D printing companies offer that serivce. All you have to do is package the files correctly. Check out how.
When Belgium-based 3D printing innovators Materialise approached avante-garde award-winning Malaysian fashion designer Melinda Looi with an offer to collaborate on a 3D printed collection for the runway, Looi was thrilled with the opportunity. The collection involved a team of six to eight people, including three 3D modelers, two engineers, and Looi’s own design team. Each […]
3D printing is great, but it’s only a small part of the solution. The real thing is much larger than any one process. It’s the digitization of manufacturing in general – from CNC milling, to factory floor automation and all the way to system-wide integration beyond today’s primitive quoting sites. By applying the ideas of software to this field: automation, abstraction, standards, etc…you give access to a far wider group of people and create many more possibilities for solving the world’s problems.
Take those MRI slices and stack them back together to build your brain.
Are 3D printers a continuation of developments in a modern technology that started over 500 years ago with Gutenberg? Printers use a variety of materials and processes, and now you can print in 3D. Or will we look back one day and think that these fabricators represent the beginning of something entirely new, and we might consider 3D printer such as MakerBot the start, not the end, and that’s there’s generation of 3D machines we haven’t seen yet. Maybe we should have been calling them something other than printers, a better name such as “fabbers.”
