The Space Weaver is a machine that prints large structures in three dimensions, using a 3-axis gantry system and super glue hardened fibrous materials. Created by Prerna Auplish, Evan Bowman, and Ryan…
This is What Happens When you Give a Doll Maker a 3D Printer
Spanish artist Sonia Verdu designs, sculpts, paints and photographs some of the most stunning articulated dolls that I’ve ever seen, so when she got herself a 3D printer she took her skills to the nex…
Scott Grunewald’s Top 5 3D Printing Applications for 2014
5: China warming up to 3D printing While 3D printing is not new to the Asian market, up until this year there really hadn’t been a lot of interest. But in 2014 it finally started to build up some stea…
3D Printing Aint Afraid of no Ghost
This 3D Printable Ghost Trap from Ghostbusters is just what you need to clean out all of those pesky spirits and spooks that are haunting your home. The trap was designed by My Mini Factory user Phill…
Raspdio is an Internet Connected Radio With a 3D Printed Enclosure
I will never underestimate the ability of Makers to create really awesome devices to perform tasks that mass manufacturers have already built products to do. Some of you youngsters may not remember, b…
Bringing Old School Acoustics to the 3D Printed Smartphone Case
The engineers behind XL4D have decades of sound engineering experience behind them, having created custom speaker enclosures, bass reinforcement resonators, and P.A. systems and they are now turning t…
New Desktop Grinder, Plastic Recycler and Filament Extruder Launches on Indiegogo
A new startup called ReDeTec has just launched an Indiegogo campaign hoping to crowdsource funds to begin production on the ProtoCycler. The desktop filament extruder can be fed with raw material pell…
Curing Cancer with 3D Printing
If you were to ask me yesterday how you would use 3D printing to cure cancer I probably would have guessed that you would 3D print heavy objects and throw them at cancer patients hoping it would spont…
The Worlds Largest Electronics Wholesaler Now Carries German RepRap 3D Printers
Electronics and information technology wholesale distributor Ingram Micro has just announced that it will begin distributing the line of 3D printing products from German RepRap throughout the European…
3D Printing an Opening Soft Robot Flower with NinjaFlex
Soft robots are objects created with specialized geometry that allow for complex movements, without the necessity of mechanized components. Typically they are given motion via controlled air pressure …