e-NABLE is no stranger when it comes to making the news. They’ve been helping people around the world by providing designs for 3D printed prosthetic hands, and connecting those in need with Makers, for the past couple years. Recently, e-NABLE…
New Wax 3D Printing Partnership Promises Speed Products to Market
On the one hand, Stratasys’ subsidiary Solidscape manufactures high-precision wax 3D printers. On the other, LSR’s Design Studio has a proprietary mold-making process using either silicone or metal. And, together? Well, they’ve joined forces to create a prototyping process that…
Most Read Articles from Last Week – February 1
Upcycle DVD Drives into a Low-Cost 3D Printer/CNC Machine Do you have a few old DVD drives taking up space in your home? If so, you’re in luck! Instructables user wootin24 has come up with a design that upcycles those…
Hero Forge Brings Custom 3D Printed Miniatures to the Table
Last year, Hero Forge rolled the dice on their new business idea, launching a Kickstarter campaign for a service that would allow users to easily design and 3D print custom miniatures for role playing games. They flew past their initial…
Skin and Bones: The Low-Cost Flexy Hand 3D Printed Prosthetic
UK-based Gyrobot Limited is a mechanical design consulting company with its own 3D printing facility, with which they focus on using FDM to 3D print concept models, end-use parts, functional prototypes, and manufacturing tools. After previously publishing designs for their…
Fathom Tackles Deflategate with 3D Printing
Super Bowl XLIX is kicking off this Sunday and the 3D printing community is already getting psyched. While Stratasys prepped for the party by 3D printing its own pro-grade football using an Object500 Connex 3 multi-material 3D printer. Others are…
Free 3D Printable of the Week: 3D Fractals
This week’s free, 3D printable model comes via Sketchfab’s own Victor Tissot, who has created a complete folder of 3D printable fractals. To do so, Victor followed an Instructable from designer Don Whitaker that outlines the entire process of making…
Virginia Tech Researchers Take to reddit for AMA on 3D Printing Materials
As scientists work towards pushing the range of materials available for 3D printing further outside of plastics and metals, we can anticipate new 3D printing applications blossom at a slow but increasingly predictable manner. A group of scientists, engineers, and…
Singleton 3D Printed from Grey Goo as 7-Foot-Tall Life Sized Robot
As the video game developers, Grey Box, put it, this is “process junkie nirvana”: Gentle Giant Studios, 3D Systems’ entertainment division, just shot an amazing “making of” video for the stereolithographic 3D printing of a life size “Singleton” robot, a…
3DPI.TV – Replacing Oil Based Materials for 3D Printing
As the industrialized nations of the world work to ween themselves off fossil fuels, it’s important to find manufacturing materials that aren’t derived from oil. UK-based Biome Bioplastics is attempting to get an edge in this important market by creating…
