An update is due for the creation by Natsuo Akazawa dubbed PLEN2. This articulate little 3D printed robot ran a successful Kickstarter campaign and will enter final production in a few months. However…
3D Printing Better Breast Prostheses
One company in Bavaria is helping women who have had breast surgery through the customization possibilities offered by 3D printing. Lingerie company Anita has employed their German RepRap X400 to stre…
PLEN2: Your 3D Printable Friend to the End
PLEN2 is the adorable brain-child of Natsuo Akazawa. In order to foster his dream of creating better relationships between humans and machines, he created an articulate, programmable, and 3D printable…
Scare Your Neighbors with a 3D Printed X1 Airsoft Gun
Kirby Downey, the Lead Designer at MyMiniFactory has 3D printed a few toy guns in his past, but nothing compared to his Rorsch X1 airsoft rifle from Battlefield 4. He’s tinkered with moveable triggers…
Custom 3D Printed Snowblower Really Blows
Nobody likes to shovel snow, especially not [The_Great_Moo] of RC Snowcats. He bought a Kyosho Blizzard SR remote-controlled snowplow for himself. Its performance, however, did not impress him. So, th…
Father and Son Bring van Gogh into the 3rd Dimension with 3D Printing
Seokhee Oh manages and operates the WikiFacturing Camp at the Gyeonggi Content Korea Lab in Pangyo, South Korea, and works for SeongNam Industry Promotion Agency. But, most importantly, Seokhee is a f…
3D Printing Shrinks Rubik’s Cubes to Guinness Record Proportions
Russian puzzle designer Evgeniy Grigoriev is doing his best to reinvent the wheel, or in this case, the cube. July 26, 2015 is the 35th anniversary of the Rubik’s Cube international launch. When first…
Another Heart Mended with a 3D Printed Surgical Model
Mina Khan was born with a broken heart. Specifically, she had a large hole between her ventricles. This defect prevented the normal circulation of blood through her heart chambers and lungs, leaving t…
Welcome to Kideville: CAD Turned Gaming with 3D Printing
Serbian-born Dejan Mitrovic has developed an educational program called Kidesign that brings technical design and 3D printing into classrooms, offices, and museums. The program supplies Bits from Byte…