Even though the network of self-replicating 3D printer communities consist of highly intelligent individual units, the replicating machines themselves are not yet self-sustainable and functional without any human interaction – as opposed to the Replicators featured in the Stargate saga…
Space Qube – Old School Shoot 'Em Up with 3D Printable Space Ships – Done Correctly!
The universe is infested with dangerous monsters threatening all life! An outcry which sounds quite ominous, but despite the immediate associations to colonies of planets struggling under an Ridley Scott directed Alien regime, it’s not an introduction to a dystopian…
LumiFold – a Maker-friendly, Truly Portable 3D Printer for $400
Even though there have been a few attempts to create a portable 3D printer – Ben Heck’s iterative projects being probably the most famous ones – real commercial applications in this sector have been practically non-existent. Even Ingenious-Ben’s solution to…
Saving Resources by Prototyping with 3D Printing – A Lamplight Case Study
As the potential mega trend of a future with local-based manufacturing and consumption is widely discussed in the academic and business world, 3D printing is often cited as one of the most relevant techs to be harnessed in this regard.…
Bigger, Badder, Brad’er – a New Supersized Maker 3D Printer on Thingiverse
While many of the most recent consumer/prosumer grade 3D printers are aiming low with previously unheard of price points – often at the expense of other qualities – some men just want to watch the world burn and go higher,…
Phoenix – Pushing Limits in the sub-$400 3D Printer Market
Besides 3D printing, I can’t think of any other sector in the tech industry where it’s almost impossible to keep track of all the interesting new concepts that keep popping up! Granted, most of them are still in their early…
Research at US ARL: Using 3D Printing to Produce Replaceable & Blast-proof Vehicle Parts
Even though it’s nicer to think positively about what most people immediately associate with 3D printing, the reality sometimes deviates from the ideology. And while there are many good, positive applications that already contribute to improving people’s lives worldwide —…
3D Scanning Fallen Soldiers in Russia – Immortalization of the Battle of Borodino
Even though most recent news on 3D scanning has been about prosumer-targeted desktop solutions, the majority of which are currently still lying on the design tables with a sole focus on winning the price-race to the bottom, in the professional…
A New Study on 3D Printing From Peer Production – The Industry is Slowly Growing into the Mainstream
A new study on 3D printing has been published by the open source research platform Statistical Studies of Peer Production. It’s a follow-up to last year’s first market research activities into 3D printing, which mapped out the basics of the…
M.C. Langer's 3D Printed Jaeger Robot – A Recycled and Revamped 3D Design
A former naval officer building functional robots capable of launching missiles might, at first, sound like a potentially alarming concept, but in reality it is actually a beautiful Instructables swan song from a Colombian artist called Mario Caicedo Langer. For…
