Printing Without a 3D Printer
From the pages of MAKE’s Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing 2014: Don’t have a 3D printer but still want to bring your 3D designs to life? One of these services might be right for you.
3D Printing
Replicating Ancient African Hominoid Fossils
The African Fossils virtual laboratory website is a digital archeology project that seeks to increase public knowledge about prehistory by harnessing Autodesk 3D scanning technology. Recently, they wrote MAKE to tell us about their updated, newly re-launched website featuring stunning Sketchfab integration and downloads of prehistoric humanoid remains.
The Duality of the Physical and Digital Worlds
With easy-to-use 3D printers and 3D software, we’ve come a long way in giving everyone the tools to create with confidence. Yet for most people one piece was still missing: the ability to bring physical objects into the digital world and to complete the transaction, inextricably linking the two worlds so that anyone could use one to influence the other.
Book Bargains: Hot Deals from O’Reilly Media
O’Reilly Media is having a terrific sale on three of our new titles today and we want to ensure that you know about it.
B9 Creator
The B9 Creator produced the finest prints of any machine we tested.
Cube 2
Safe and easy to use, but a closed system holds back its potential.
Microsoft Releases “3D Builder” Touchscreen 3DP App Today
Today I had the pleasure of speaking with Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Product Management at Microsoft about their 3D Builder graphical touchscreen application for Windows 8.1, slotted for release at midnight GMT today, Nov. 15. 3D Builder incorporates a combination of slicer and client software plus integrated Windows drivers for several popular 3D printers to provide a easy-to-use desktop manufacturing experience that aims to make it simple for the average consumer to get into 3D printing quickly.
