Making your own filament for your 3D printer with an affordable Filastruder filament extruder is getting closer. Filastruder that hit their Kickstarter target $5000 within one hour and hit nearly $50,000 after two days of launching the campaign, is increasing…
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Kickstarter: Therminator 5 Hot End for RepRap 3D Printers
Tony May from RepRapTech has encountered issues with their 3D printers – more specifically he has found that the RepRap Prusas’ hot ends are below par for “more demanding print jobs”. He names several problematic areas in this regard, such…
B9Creator – Round 2 on Kickstarter
B9Creator, the open source DLP 3D printer project by Michael Joyce based in South Dakota, US is back on Kickstarter sourcing a second round of funding after successfully raising over half a million US dollars for the first B9Creator 3D…
3DLPrinter Comes from Italy
Watching the 3D printing sector continue to evolve has always fascinated me and you do start to pick up on patterns after a while. The current ‘pattern’ is taking place with an influx of more precise and accurate, entry level…
The Guys Behind RepRap – Always Thinking Ahead and now it’s Graphene
I am currently working on a project for 3DPI that involves a historical piece on the 3D printing sector and this prompted me to go over some old interview notes with Adrian Bowyer, the original founder of RepRap, from a…
New 3D Printer — EZ3D
EZ3D is the latest Kickstarter project launched by the Colorado based Jake Wood and his partner, seeking funds for the production of a new 3D printer. The pair have focused heavily on trying to improve the user experience based on…
Co-extrusion 3D Printing from PARC
Parc – a Xerox company – has created a novel 3D printing tech called co-extrusion. The name refers to the machine taking two different materials and pushing them out through a single nozzle – without mixing them. The core principles…
Plans to Make Metal 3D Printing Systems Faster and Better
Sigma Labs recently announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Interactive Machines Inc (IMI) outlining how the companies plan to collaboratively “explore the formation of a joint venture or other arrangement for the purpose of developing…
Building and 3D Printing Parts — Rostock Style!
Richard Horne, probably best known to many as RichRap (via his very popular website, twitter, blogger etc), describes himself as “an Engineer at heart with a passion for making things work in the real world.” I can’t think that anyone…
MakerBot Rep2 3D Printer — Adafruit Edition
Adafruit and Makerbot have teamed up to bring the makers and prosumers of the world a limited edition of the Replicator 2 3D printer — which includes a MakerBot + Adafruit build plate and a 3d printing for electronics pack!…
