Make it Stand: 3D Printed Objects That Don’t Tip Over With 3D printing, you can print objects with almost any interior geometry you can imagine. Typically, this has been taken advantage of to reduce w…
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TEDxMileHigh: 3D Printed Robotic Arm by Easton LaChappelle
Seriously, what were you doing when you were 14 years old? Probably not creating a prosthetic robotic arm, like Easton LaChappelle from Colorado. His first version of the robotic hand was made out of …
Internal ID Tagging For 3D Productables
Karl Willis, a recent Ph.D. graduate in computational design at Carnegie Mellon, and Andy Wilson, a principal researcher at Microsoft Research, have demonstrated an ingenious tagging technique for 3D …
Success! Zero-G Tests Passed to Send First 3D Printer to Space
Organizations like NASA and the European Space Agency have developed such ambitious additive manufacturing plans as 3D-printed space food, laser sintered moon bases, and printer-mounted robospiders, b…
3D Printing on the Colbert Report
It’s the weekend! So why not kick back and see how the US’s best satirist handles the technology you know and love? Here are a few clips from The Colbert Report with none other than Stephe…
3D Printer Boldly Heading to Space Station in 2014!
NASA intends to send a 3D printer boldly where no 3D printer has gone before — next year — to the International Space Station (ISS). According to Made In Space, the organization that is working NASA…
Crowd-funding to Buy a 3D printer in the Dominican Republic
Luis Liriano, a chemical engineer student in the Dominican Republic, knows that the potential of 3D printing to aid technological advancement for social benefit is becoming increasingly recognized. No…
Samantha Snabes – the Gigabot Travels in Northern Chile
Samantha Snabes, who has previously worked with an ambiguous title of Social Entrepreneur in Residence for NASA’s Open Innovation Program, is taking what she has learned from space explorations – and …
GeoBling Now Available in Gold
GeoBling is now offering 3D printed versions of its designs in 10k yellow and white gold — they are for sale via the hosting and 3D printing service Kraftwurx. As the name suggests, the GeoBling range…
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…