In what seems to be the fulfillment of a promise by Barack Obama to increase the competitiveness of US schools, Buford Middle School in Charlottesville, Virginia will be opening a lab school devoted t…
3D Printed Headphones — Simple and Elegant
One of the most interesting side effects of creating 3D-printed items is that, in the pursuit of producing one’s own goods, one finds unique and, often, simple methods for constructing these items. In…
The 3D Printed Gun: Individual Freedom, Collective Violence
With the recent atrocities committed in Newton, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado, it’s only natural that the most prevalent news surrounding 3D printers — particularly in the US — has been about the g…
Vortex Loops Created with 3D Printers
Like children who become fixated on one particular detail of their environment, scientists Dustin Kleckner and William Irvine have been staring at vortexes. They’ve been staring with cameras, tanks of…
3D Printed Cellular Loop Chair Grown From Nature’s Principles
The chair represents the height of design. This iconic piece of furniture is so simple that the process of performing any modification to it is a tightrope walk between pointlessly ornate and unneeded…
SinterHab: Insectoids, Microwaves and 3D Printed Moon Bases
The day finally came when I read the headline “Giant NASA Spider Robots Could 3D Print Lunar Bases Using Microwaves”. As the universe would have it, the collective imagination that is culture had use…
The Revelations of 3D-Printed Robats
When I was at the Los Angeles Zoo the other day, my friend Jon kept saying how he wished humans had never done away with the opposable toe that the great apes have – the one that gives all other…
3D Printing Speeds Up Zayger Watches
Shlomo Mockin is aptly labelled Shlomo der Zaygermacher by friends and family because he’s been repairing watches and creating watch parts for the past four years and, incidentally, Zaygermacher means…
The First 3D Printed Polymer Implant to Receive FDA Approval
Oxford Performance Materials (OPM), member of the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute and producer of biomedical raw materials and devices, has just received FDA approval for its Oste…
RepRap Evolution — The Tricolour Mendel
RepRap 3D Printers are among the most popular printers in the Maker community, designed to be self-replicating and open sourced. When you visit the RepRap site, there are all of the iterations of the …