Help Crowdfund the Rygo: The Largest 3D print in North America
Standing two meters tall, the Rygo will be the largest 3D print in North America, and will be installed at Gropp’s Gallery in Vancouver, Canada.
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!
How-To: Add a Laser Head to a CNC Mini Mill
David Prutchi, whose surplus plutonium probe shenanigans we covered last week, received Micro-Mark’s branded version of the popular Sieg X2 mini mill for a recent birthday, then retrofitted it with a CNC kit from CNC Fusion, and then retrofitted it again with a CO2 laser head he built himself from a surplus tube. David writes: […]
Pirate File-sharing Goes 3D
Begun the Clone War has.
Printrbot Physibles Released
You probably all remember Printrbot, the quick-build, low-cost 3D printer design from Brook Drumm that took Kickstarter by storm, last year. Brook’s stated funding goal for the project was $25,000, and it ended up netting more than $830,000. Since that time, unsurprisingly, Brook has been a very busy man. Saturday we got the interesting news […]
Pocket Factory: It’s a Dirty Job, but Someone’s Got to Do It, Dispatch #2
We are Bilal Ghalib and Alex Hornstein, and we’re traveling around the country for a month in a Prius full of low-cost 3D printers, starting a business printing and selling things on these machines. We think of ourselves as modern-day troubadours, moving from town to town with our moneymakers in our trunk, eliciting inspiration and fascination where we travel, and making a living for ourselves off of our ideas and our wits…
How-To: Make Your Own Aerogel
The folks at Aerogel.org are serious about it: The “Make” section of their exhaustive “open source aerogel” site will teach you how to make high-quality monolithic aerogel the way the pros do it, from building your our own supercritical drying apparatus (“manuclave” is their neologism), to mixing up the wet ingredients, to actually performing the […]
No, Mr. Bond, I Expect You to Die
I can’t believe it took this long for somebody to do this with a laser cutter. You go, Martin Raynsford. [via Hacked Gadgets]
