Electroplate Your 3D Prints with the Orbit1
At last year’s Maker Faire in NYC, Monolith Studios presented their Orbit1 electroplating device, demonstrating to onlookers a machine for coating 3D prints in metallic materials. Though there are DI…
Giving Any FFF 3D Printer a Multicolor, Multimaterial 3D Printing Palette
Do you want multiple colors in your 3D prints? Do you also want to see a perfect Kickstarter campaign? Check out The Palette: 3D Printing Evolved, and you might just get both in one shot. Especially i…
Gala 3D Printer Hits Kickstarter Heavy with Features and Light Price-Tag
While the desktop 3D printing market continues to over-saturate, we still await the perfect low-cost printer that is both flexible and easy to use, stocked with features, but not overly complicated, a…
Streaming 3D Printed Sex Toys Safely with Authentise
The streaming of 3D printable files to local 3D printers or 3D printing services has, so far, been touted as a means of controlling IP, so that someone’s designs don’t get pirated or 3D printed withou…
Improve the 3D Printed ELF Drone and Win Your Own
In celebration of the launch of ElecFreak’s new ELF VRDrone (now live and thriving on Indiegogo), YouMagine is challenging you to improve their ELF design. The ELF is a small drone that streams HD …
PowerPoint + Projectors = Cheap & Easy Micro-SLA 3D Printing
Based on research being done in nano-scale optical imaging at the Nano – CEMMS Center at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, a low-cost DLP-SLA process has been demonstrated by students us…
Ultimate TestrBot Machine Can Tell You Just How Strong You’re 3D Printing
While many software companies are working on making it easier for you to do everything you need before you 3D print new creations, increasingly we are seeing initiatives that focus on what happens…
April Kickstarter for MoonRay DLP 3D Printer Announced at 3D Print Week
3D Print Week New York was a lot of fun, and there were dozens of exhibits that I can and probably will write about, but the first one that caught my eye was the MoonRay DLP 3D Printer booth. After I…
3D Printed in a Single Piece, MONO Eyewear Hits Indiegogo
3D printing lets you reduce the price for the production of single, personalized items. The tech also enables you to manufacture complex objects as a single piece, which can offer significant advantag…
MakerBot Lays Off 20% of Staff, Closes Retail Locations
As 3D Print Week was booming, it seems that other, less joyous events were taking place behind the scenes. Motherboard reports that Stratasys subsidiary MakerBot has laid off 20% of its workforce, wh…
