March 2013
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Man has 75% of skull replaced with 3-D printed... →
January 2013
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November 2012
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Desktop 3D Printer Creates Ceramic Bricks for... →
October 2012
25 posts
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We finally solved the issue of the jumping print head that was impacting several of our 3d printers. We would consistently get solid prints in the morning or late afternoon, but midday would often see prints start to shift horizontally or vertically as the bot moved to higher levels on the z-axis. After experimenting with dozens of fixes — from cleaned power sources to shorter USB cables...
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We just donated to EFF’s efforts to keep 3D... →
The future of higher education: reshaping... →
3D Printing Comes To The Disney Universe: Your... →
3D printer to help foot pain sufferers →
A 3D printed aircraft test flies successfully →
3D Printed Resin Clock Radio Features Retro Nixie... →
I love the way this clock looks. Gimme.
Shapeways Announces Manufacturing Facility In New... →
3D printing was used in Wii U controller design →
3D Printer Market Rising To $5 Billion By 2017,... →
Very cool 3D photo resin printer made by students →
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Odd Rostock Printer Behavior
After building a number of Prusa and MendelMax 3d printers, we recently decided to make a Rostock delta robot printer. While the Rostock design is quite cool, we were experiencing what appeared to be a weird firmware bug with the machine.
The Rostock would home correctly, with top+bottom or top only endstops, but as soon as it finished homing the print head would shoot for the right-rear corner...
Patent helps to prevent 3D printing piracy (this... →
California-based Intellectual Ventures was established by former Microsoft technology boss Nathan Mhyrvold. It now owns and controls about 40,000 technology patents.
I believe that the US patent system is broken and this company is only making it worse.
Could 3D printing really shift the trade balance? →
In my opinion it might make a small shift to the trade balance, but we won’t see that change happen anytime soon. Plus, the printers will probably be made overseas eventually!
Surgeons hope hi-tech print technology will help... →
Pentagon's Plans For 3-D Printers: Mobile Labs,... →
There Is No Reason For Any Individual To Have A 3D... →
There was a time when we couldn’t imagine a reason why anyone would need a computer at home. With the endless possibilities of this industry, I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss home manufacturing. In the short term, I think that cloud manufacturing will lead the industry. However, I that think if the price of printers begin to decrease the cost of entry for the home manufacturer will...
Biggest, Fastest Titanium 3D Printer for making... →
New site for 3D Models. Competition for... →
Disney Experiments With Light And 3D Printing →
3D printing helps paleontologists understand... →
Synth manufacturer lets customers 3D print their... →
September 2012
23 posts
This blog made me laugh. He set his Mendel Max on... →
Wood Composite Printing - some feedback →
I have ordered some of the wood filament and am excited to see how it prints. It sounds like it is more like working with PLA than actual wood. Still, it will be interesting to see what types of materials will be printable in the future.
3D-Printed Bioengineered Leather Could Appear on... →
World's Largest 3D Printer Opened To Public in... →
MakerBot vs. Open Source – A Founder Perspective →
You can't really be kinda open source →
3D-Printable Gun Project Hits Its Fundraising Goal... →
Early preview of 3D printing debates to come.
In Amsterdam, world’s first mobile 3D printing... →
Open source too!
New tool gives structural strength to 3-D printed... →
A computer program that automatically strengthens objects created using 3-D printing.
3D Digital Dental to Start 3D Model Service Bureau... →
One of our dentists has a machine that cuts away material to make a new tooth from a 3D scan. Cool to see that 3D printing might be the next phase in dentistry. I find the advancements in medical and health 3D printing to be very interesting. Can’t wait to see what the future holds.
BotQueue: Distributed control of 3D printers on... →
We have started using the BotQueue program for a week and have really liked the results. Very cool project. Excited to see it evolve.
NASA Focuses on 3D Printing for Self-Assembling... →
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Injured bald eagle gets new 3-D printed beak →
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ParaNorman producers make film using 3D colour... →
Traditionally, individual facial expressions would be sculpted by hand out of clay, but the producers of ParaNorman built up a library of 8,800 3D-printed faces for the main character alone, which could be used in various sequences, to give him about 1.5 million different expressions.
3D Printers Are Getting Better At Printing Blood... →
The new technology can create blood vessels out of soft hydrogels in seconds. Amazing.
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M-FLEX 3D Printing System dramatically increasing... →
The Ex One Company introduced the M-FLEX 3D Printing System dramatically increasing the capabilities of a 3D metal printer by more than seven times the volume output of machines currently in use.
Could ancient Egyptians hold the key to 3D printed... →
