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Category Archives: 3D Printing

Almost ending funding:

iBox Nano – Worlds Smallest, Least Expensive 3D Printer by iBox Printers — Kickstarter.

Great reuse of old CDROM drives!

EWaste 60$ 3DPrinter.

Learn electronics and programming building the nanomouse. Free online video lectures at Udemy.com, open 3D printable frame and all the electronics available in a kit for $100 kit. All parts details at Michael Backus’s Nanomouse site.

Artificial Intelligence with Arduinos by Michael Backus | Udemy.

iPad-oriented 3D printer for children on Kickstarter for ~£325. Alas, no information on print resolution or the technical capability of the iPad app.

Printeer – a 3D printer for kids & schools by Mission Street Manufacturing — Kickstarter.

Lots of 3D printing meets old-school stop motion animation by London-based DBLG. Click through for HD video.

Bears on Stairs: A Stop Motion-Animation Created from 3D-Printed Frames | Colossal.

A series of articles using different (most free) 3D CAD software for designing the same part. Software covered: FreeCAD, OpenSCAD, AutoCAD, Blender, SketchUp, Autodesk 123D.

3D Printering: Making A Thing In FreeCAD, Part I.

Instructable instructions on building your own RepRap.

3D Printer.

 

Full-colour 3D prints

The £200k ($330k) Objet500 Connex3 Color Mutli-material 3D Printer from Stratasys mixes cyan, magenta and yellow (like traditional 2D printers) to ‘infinitely’ colour base materials of rubber and plastic.

Minneapolis-based Stratasys bought Israeli multi-material specialist Objet in April 2012; last year it bought MakerBot, the consumer 3D printing company

BBC News – Stratasys launches multi-material colour 3D printer.

At The University of Southern California, Professor Behrokh Khoshnevis has built a colossal 3D printer that can build a house in 24 hours…

3D Printer Builds House In 24 Hours – Business Insider.

The Sugar Lab 3D print sugar structures. They use 3D Systems who, funnily enough, have just announced the new ChefJet™ series of 3D printers. Info on their top of the range model:

“The ChefJet Pro 3D printer is a full-color, large format printer with a build volume of 10x14x8”. ChefJet Pro printable materials also come in a variety of recipes, including chocolate, vanilla, mint, sour apple, cherry and watermelon, all of which can be printed in full-color. ChefJet is expected to be available in the second half of 2014 and will be priced in the sub-$10,000 range. To sign up for updates, please visit 3dsystems.com/ces.”

3D-printed sugar could be icing on the cake for kitchens of the future | Technology | theguardian.com.