Richard Horne
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Richard Horne, probably best known to many as RichRap, describes himself as “an Engineer at heart with a passion for making things work in the real world.” When he is not working at his day job, Rich spends a great deal of time working with a full range of 3D printers at home — his children quite like them too.

Focus on colorFabb – Overview of 3D Printing Materials

This article is part of the materials testing series for 3D Printing Industry, and here, in the first of two parts, I am considering the 3D printing materials of colorFabb. colorFabb is a young 3D printing plastic material manufacturer. The…

Social Media & the botObjects 3D Printer  

If you search ‘botObjects’ on Twitter or Google, from the information available you will see it’s a 3D Printing start-up company. They seem to have a very unique way of communicating with the market, the media and their own customers…

RichRap Reviews Spectrum Filament for 3D Printing

3D Printing Industry (3DPI) asked me to test out some filament from a new manufacturer, Spectrum Filament based in the UK. Over the last four years I have used many different types and sources of 3D printing filament, both good and bad…

3D Printing Plastics — Trials, Tribulations and A Need for Ethical Change

After the wonder and excitement of the London 3D Printshow dissipated, I felt compelled to write about the use of plastic printing materials. This stemmed initially from a conversation with William Hoyle who is the Chief Executive of techfortrade.org; a UK…

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…