2 Expert Tips to Give Your 3D Prints Smooth, Colorful Finishes
Most 3D prints have the same ridged, textured finish to them due to the nature of extruders. Find out how to customize your prints with these techniques.
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 Design Custom Game Dice with OpenSCAD
Learn how to create a simple custom model for dice in OpenSCAD.
5 Life-Changing Accessibility Inventions Made in 72 Hours
Makers hacked real problems faced by people with special needs to create tools that will help improve mobility, independence, and comfort.
It Took 100 Hours to 3D Print This 2-Bedroom Villa
This luxury 2-bedroom villa in the Philippines was constructed with a specialized 3D printer. Its next project? 3D printing low income housing.
Hold a Moment of History in Your Hand with 3D Printed Maps
Being both a maps enthusiast and an avid wargamer, I love this idea of 3D printing full-color, palm-sized terrain maps of famous battles from Japanese history. 3DPrint reported on these maps last week and describes the history behind the project. This campaign covers eight famous battles of Japanese Warring States Era (late 1500s to early […]
3D Printable Rotary Tool Holders and Accessories
One of the more practical and useful things that a 3D printer can do is print jigs, holders, and other little improvement hacks to annoying problems found with in your everyday tools. Rotary tools, that very universal of maker tools, have lots of holders and accessories associated with them, and so they’re ripe for 3D […]
Watch This 5-Axis Hot Wire Cut Beautiful Foam Shapes
Watching a hot wire cutter do its work is always a pleasure. Especially in this case, where the cutter is 5 axis. The wire tips this way and that, melting through the foam like it isn’t even there.
