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!
Metamáquina, founded by Filipe Moura, Felipe Sanches, and Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva, put a statement on their website reacting to Makerbot’s announcement that they’re stepping away from open source principles with their Replicator II. For a long time, we’ve been inspired by the work of Makerbot, a pioneer US company in the home 3D printing […]
Back in May I compiled a census of all the 3D printers at the Bay Area Maker Faire; I thought I’d do the same at this past weekend’s Maker Faire New York. The trends are clear: more, more variations, and more better. I counted 70 different printers in the wild, and I surely missed a […]
Meet Sean Charlesworth. Sean has painstakingly designed, printed, and assembled what is certainly the biggest, most complex, and most beautiful 3D-printed sci-fi model I have ever seen. He calls it the “OctoPod Underwater Salvage Vehicle 5”, or OPUS V, for short.
This is a transcription of the talk MakerBot CEO Bre Pettis gave at Thursday’s Open Hardware Summit in New York. It is based on the official recorded video stream of Session 3, which is available in its entirety here. Bre’s talk begins at about 1:20:41.
At this year’s Open Hardware Summit (9/27) in NYC, the MAKE video team asked some key participants (from MakerBot, SparkFun, Evil Mad Scientist, OpenROV and others) what they thought about MakerBot closing off some of its source files. Here’s some of what they had to say. More: Our coverage of the new MakerBot product release […]
This morning the startup Formlabs announced a new entry in the 3D Printer market: the Form 1. The Form is based on the stereolithography method of printing by directing a laser at a tray of liquid resin to harden each layer. The print resolution seems to compare favorably with with plastic extrusion based printers, with […]
If you’re ready to purchase, the Maker Shed will have 3D printers for sale at World Maker Faire. In addition to some MakerBot Replicator 1 Dual Extruder models, we’ll also have the Ultimaker and Printrbot for you to take home that day.
