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!
Students at Virgina Tech can make their 3D-modeled dreams into little plastic realities thanks to the DreamVendor, a free 3D-printing vending machine in the College of Engineering, powered by four MakerBot Thing-O-Matics. The machine was created by Virginia Tech’s DREAMS Lab (Design, Research, and Education for Additive Manufacturing Systems). From their site: The DreamVendor is […]
Toolsday, a live hangout on air focusing on a different categories of tools each week. This week, 3D printing maintenance and optimization.
Host: Eric Weinhoffer
Guest: Michael Castor
Make sure to watch Part 2 for the rest of the show.
Toolsday, a live hangout on air focusing on a different categories of tools each week. This week, 3D printing maintenance and optimization.
Host: Eric Weinhoffer
Guest: Michael Castor
Our Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing is on newsstands today! And it’s just the beginning of a new chapter for 3D printing, and for MAKE.
On this week’s Toolsday Google+ hangout on air, we”ll be talking about 3D printing and 3D printing tools. No so coincidentally, our Ultimate Guide to 3D printing hits newsstands today. Pick up a copy and join the discussion tomorrow at 2pm PST and 5pm EST on Google+.
Check out this cool Janne Kyttanen-inspired 3D-printed iPhone sweater case from Shapeways’ Design for iPhone 5 Contest winner ArtizanWork. It’s a prime example of the sort of object that can only be produced with a 3D printer. The unibody construction with both hard and soft surface attributes combined with a novel presentation ultimately won over the judges.
MAKE’s first international maker meetup yesterday was a hit. Around the world there were 126 meetups with more than 800 participants.
