Last year tech blog Bit-Tech teamed up with Intel and launched a competition to design a new case for their NUC small form factor PC. While the competition was fierce, designer Alex Banks and his eleg…
Are You Hip to HIPS? Formfutura Releases Line of HIPS 3D Printing Filament
Formfutura’s new EasyFil line of HIPS – High Impact Polystyrene – thermoplastic filament has been formulated to be more flexible than typical HIPS materials. The Dutch 3D printer filament …
Latvia’s Very Own MP Delta 3D Printer
Latvian 3D printer manufacturer Mass Portal has began selling their first delta style 3D printer. The MP Delta features a sleek, metallic design and is the first product to be released by the tech sta…
3D Printing Helps SatNOGS Head to Space
This year’s Hackaday Prize required contestants to create a project that was connected to the world, either through bluetooth, wi-fi, a ZigBee wireless network, or in a way previously unexplored. And…
Find Your Way Around the Wasteland with a Working Fallout 3 Pip-Boy 3000
Maker, tinkerer and Hack-a-Day writer Will Sweatman isn’t much of a gamer, but when asked if he could cobble together a working Pip-Boy 3000 from the Fallout video game series he decided to give it a …
Solving Another of Those Pesky First World Problems with 3D Printing
Anyone whose primary computer is a laptop will understand the struggle of needing to plug and unplug cables every time you have to use it in another room or take it to work. It’s one of life’s little …
Hey Beer Nerds, This 3D Printed Bottle Lock Is For You
So let’s say that the artisanal beer that you have in the back of your fridge is brewed by monks in Tibet once every blue moon, bottled by a pygmy tribe in the Caribbean and costs $48 a bottle. It als…
3D Print the Controversial "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" Lightsaber
The controversial lightsaber with a crossguard seen in the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer pretty much broke the internet last week. Fan debate was heated, as these fan debates usually are…
Functional 3D Printed Flashlight Made from Single Extruder Printer
Do you remember the Mosaic Manufacturing team that came up with that machine that allows you to seamlessly 3D print multiple types of filament with a single extruder? Well, their technology is called …
Forbes Names 3D Systems one of America’s Top Small Companies
Financial and investing news magazine Forbes just released its annual America’s Best Small Companies list and 3D Systems took the 43rd spot on the coveted business index. This is the second time that …