- Balenciaga uses 3Dprinting to create dramatic silhouettes in AW 2018 fashion collection (3ders.org)
March 6, 2018
- 3D Printing Helps Women Veterans Create Prosthetics Made Just for Them (3dprint.com)
October 16, 2015
Because of the expense involved with creating most artificial limbs, especially legs, there tends to be a uniformity and utilitarianism in design that make them all look alike. So while prosthetic limbs generally function for both men and women, more men tend to have limbs amputated than women, so most prostheses end up working more for men than women. Not only do they not look the way that a woman may want her prosthesis to look, but quite often they simply don’t work for some of the unique needs of a female amputee.
- Project Runway’s 3D Printed Looks Available at Cubify (3dprintingindustry.com)
October 16, 2015
It’s been almost two years since Justin LeBlanc’s 3D printed wares graced the catwalk on Lifetime’s hit series, Project Runway. Since then, a countless number of designers have found ways to integrate the technology into their clothing, shoes, and accessories. But, given the inherit 3D modeling skills necessary to create such pieces and the time it takes to 3D print such elaborate pieces as Dita Von Teese’s 3D printed gown, the tech just wasn’t quite fit for a true Project Runway challenge. Tonight, the show proved, however, that they could make it work, but that they’d need 3D Systems’ new Fabricate line of 3D printed textiles to do so.
- Wednesday Roundup: Ten 3D Printable Things–Marvel Comics Superhero Costumes (3dprint.com)
October 14, 2015
It’s October, so you know what that means: Halloween is on its way! So it’s time to start worrying about what you’re going to wear for the big night.
In honor of Marvel’s recently announced Ant-Man and The Wasp movie and three new unnamed movies being added to their line-up of mega-successful comic book inspired superhero movies, what better costume could there be than for a Marvel character? So I scoured the internet and found ten of the best 3D printable Marvel Props and Costumes that the world of 3D printing has to offer.
- MatterHackers Releases MatterControl 1.4 with Remote 3D Printer Control and Cloud Storage (3dprint.com)
October 6, 2015
3D printing supplies and software developer MatterHackers--a company we’ve enjoyed following for some time now–has just released the newest version of their open source MatterControl 3D printing software. The MatterControl 1.4 update brings a grip of new features and upgraded functionality designed to streamline and simplify the 3D printing workflow. The focus seems to be on connectivity, with free cloud storage, web-based 3D printer controls and new compatibility with several more models of desktop 3D printers. And they even added in a new feature to easily create prints optimized for the visually impaired.
- 3D printed PiKon astro-cam telescope captures incredible picture of the moon, now on Indiegogo (3ders.org)
September 29, 2015
Regular readers will have doubtlessly seen that industrial 3D printing is making headlines in the aerospace world, but that doesn’t mean that regular astronomy hobbyists can’t also benefit from the advantages of 3D printing. While a good quality telescope can quickly be very expensive, a far more affordable 3D printed astro-cam has just appeared on Indiegogo: the British-made PiKon, that simply relies on a Raspberry Pi and some 3D printed parts to capture gorgeous images of space.
- 3D printable smart toy Cannybot cars finds huge Kickstarter success almost immediately (3ders.org)
September 29, 2015
It’s rather ironic that 3D printing is often seen as a key educational tool for future generations, while the fast majority of 3D printed toys hardly interest the kids of today. That’s exactly why we are very intrigued by a particularly successful ongoing Kickstarter campaign for an educational toy. Called Cannybot, this is a British-made concept for smart racing cars for children that will help them understand the basics of programming and 3D modeling. It is also remarkably successful, having reached its crowdfunding goal of $40,000 almost immediately.
- M3D Micro 3D Printer to Be Launched into Retail Market at New York’s Maker Faire, Priced from $399 to $449 (3dprint.com)
September 25, 2015
While crowdfunding launches can be challenging, hard work, and a total crapshoot for many, we see a lot of really successful and downright impressive campaigns happening for innovative 3D printing companies today. It would be hard to compare any, however, with the staggering success of the M3D Micro, which was made available on Kickstarter last year, and can now be seen at the annual world Maker Faire going on in New York.
- Active-Mixing Multimaterial 3D Printhead Invented by Voxel8 CEO (3dprintingindustry.com)
September 22, 2015
Engineering with robotics and electronics has gained a lot of traction, thanks to the 3D printing revolution, but one facet that the technology has yet to greatly improve is the ability to efficiently print in multiple different materials at once. Most approaches to 3D printing with mixed materials have been passive processes, often limited to mixing thinner materials with lower viscosities and leaving thicker printing materials to mingle on their own. A new development from the Harvard lab of Jennifer Lewis, also the CEO of Voxel8, has managed to solve this issue by creating an active mixing multimaterial printhead.
- MakerMobile Lets Kentucky and Indiana Residents 3D Print and More (3dprint.com)
September 21, 2015
If you’re an avid maker or even just a budding genius with a head filled with great ideas but you don’t have access to the tools required to materialize those ideas, then there’s hope. Thanks to the dedication and foresight of organizations like Velocity, a non-profit organization based in Southern Indiana and Louisville, Kentucky, and TechShop, the California-based fabrication labs inspired by the DIY and Maker movement, aspiring makers in that area can hop on board the shiny new MakerMobile and access the guidance and tools they need to turn their bright ideas into fully realized objects.
- FMI Instrumed increases metal additive manufacturing for medical devices capacity (3dprintingindustry.com)
March 6, 2018
- 3DNA 3D prints amazing Hearthstone cards and 40 cm tall Ekko from League of Legends (3ders.org)
October 16, 2015
It’s no secret that the video game world is an actual treasure trove of material for 3D printing projects, but some franchises are more suitable than others. Filled with fantastic and imaginative characters and weapons and high replay factors, Blizzard’s Warcraft franchise and Riot Games’s League of Legends are insanely popular for a good reason, and also regularly subject of 3D printed tributes. However, few projects have been as impressive as those by London-based design team 3DNA, which have just shared some amazing projects: a series of very cool 3D playing cards from Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft and even a 40 cm tall amazingly detailed Ekko from League of Legends.
- Airwolf 3D’s AXIOM Enters the Discovery Cube OC (airwolf3d.com)
October 15, 2015
Earlier this month, Airwolf 3D’s co-founders Erick and Eva Wolf donated one of their brand new AXIOM printers to the Discovery Cube of Orange County. The Discovery Cube received their new machine and quickly went to work implementing it into their upcoming Halloween exhibit, ”Spooky Science”, where children will receive the opportunity to learn about bugs, bones, 3D printing, x-rays, holograms and enjoy live demonstrations with liquid nitrogen and dry ice.
- 3D Printing Will Play a Central Role in the 2016 Met Gala and Fashion Exhibition (3dprint.com)
October 14, 2015
Every year New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute throws a gala to raise money for the museum’s benefit. And while that may sound like a stuffy party for rich old people, it is actually a stuffy party for rich old people that happens to be also be attended by a bunch of celebrities and fashion industry leaders. The Met Gala also happens to officially kick off the Costume Institute annual fashion exhibition, which sets the tone for the Gala. Guests, and all of the invited celebrities and wannabe celebrities, are expected to not only fork over some cash for the museum, but come to the event dressed to match the party’s theme.
- 11-year-old 3D printed diabetes test-strip device wins him a trip to NASA (3ders.org)
October 6, 2015
Kids will be kids, and if they have one thing in common, it’s that they hate cleaning up after themselves. The ubiquitous parental plea to “clean your room!” and “pick your things off the floor!” can be heard from Taipei to Mexico to Birmingham. Yet one boy in Canberra, Australia, has channeled that nagging into an innovative, prize-winning 3D printed invention. Tired of getting into trouble for leaving his diabetes test strips on the floor at home, 11-year-old William Grame came up with the idea to 3D print a device that can safely and hygienically save up to 50 used test strips at a time before needing to be emptied. Competing against over 850 students in the Origin Energy littleBIGidea competition, Grame’s ingenuity has won him the grand prize: a trip to the Mecca of scientific innovation itself, NASA.
- Build your own X01 Project 3D printed drone, inspired by prize-winning Xombie Lunar Lander (3ders.org)
September 29, 2015
- Foster + Partners unveils designs for Mars settlement that could be 3D printed by robots (3ders.org)
September 25, 2015
There has been a lot of talk of buzz in Hollywood about Matt Damon’s latest blockbuster, The Martian, based on a novel about a lone astronaut who must survive the harsh realities life on Mars. Well, it turns out that storyline may not being science fiction for long. NASA and America Makes recently announced their 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, inviting scientists, researchers and engineers to develop a safe, secure, and sustainable housing on Earth and beyond, and Foster + Partners New York’s modular design has just been selected as one of 30 finalists.
- Drive cats (or anyone) crazy with 3D printed remote-controlled laser pointer (3ders.org)
September 25, 2015
Laser pointers have a lot of specific purposes: they can be used in classrooms or presentations, during star gazing, or to signal for help in an emergency. Despite all of that, the number one thing most of us do with a laser pointer? Use it to annoy cats, babies, or even co-workers, of course. A new creation by JJRobots allows you to build a portable laser pointer robot with 3D printed parts that can be controlled from up to 60 meters away with your smartphone or tablet device, and provide hours of fun.
- Amazon launches business, industrial & scientific supplies store featuring 3D printers (3ders.org)
September 22, 2015
Amazon UK has today launched a European business, industrial and scientific supplies store featuring more than half a million products including Additive Manufacturing (3D printing) products from 3D Systems and XYZprinting.
- Zortrax Launches Online 3D Model Library with Free Robotic Arm (3dprintingindustry.com)
September 21, 2015
Zortrax, the leading Polish 3D printer manufacturer and one of the leading companies worldwide in low cost FFF 3D printing, has released its own online 3D model library. The makers of the highly appreciated M200 desktop 3D printer, is thus following in the footsteps of the other two industry leaders, MakerBot, with Thingiverse, and Ultimaker, with the Youmagine network.
- Facebook now lets you share 3D models (3ders.org)
February 21, 2018
Upload your sculptures to FaceBook and share with friend. using glTF 2.0
- Taiwan’s ITRI Showcases Metal 3D Printed Saxophone (3dprint.com)
October 16, 2015
Guitars. Violins — both acoustic and electric. Cellos. Drum sets and Indian tabla drum pairs. The saxophone… 3D printing musical instruments is becoming more common, but it is not necessarily an easy process to get the sound right. The most recent 3D printed instrument to hit the news comes from Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI),which has successfully completed the printing of perhaps the most popular woodwind instrument. Whenever I write about 3D printed instruments, I usually emphasize how “ancient” the instrument is compared to how “futuristic” 3D technology — emphasizing the merging of the traditional with the modern. But I can’t take that angle for this story. Why? Because the saxophone, which was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolph Sax in 1840, isn’t that old.
- Researchers Create a Fully Articulated 3D Printed Soft Robot Octopus Tentacle (3dprint.com)
October 15, 2015
I’ll be the first to admit that there is a lot of humor to be had in the fact that scientists 3D printed an articulated tentacle, and trust me the amount of effort required to avoid making shokushu goukan (do not google that) jokes is monumental. But the concepts behind soft robotics are hard to laugh at considering the potential that the field of study represents. If you don’t know what a soft robot it, it is essentially a robot without any mechanical parts that mimics the movements and behaviors of biological systems. Researchers studying soft robotics study the way that biological systems work and look for ways to apply those biological mechanisms to engineering problems.
- Designer Ryan Pennings 3D prints gorgeous algorithmic Percy Stools using industrial Kuka robot (3ders.org)
October 6, 2015
Increasingly, even the world of furniture design is becoming aware of 3D printing technology, though most examples of printed furniture don’t exactly look like they’ve been FDM 3D printed. Layers are sanded off, or hidden beneath cloth or other components. But is that completely necessary? Fortunately, Australian student and industrial designer Ryan Pennings has decided to completely embrace the layered look. Ryan’s Percy stools are fantastic and brightly colored creations that – with the help of industrial 3D printing – proudly show off really thick layers.
- Use 3Doodler to create new heads for Star Wars: The Force Awakens BB-8 Droid toy (3ders.org)
October 6, 2015
Earlier this year, when the first teaser trailer was unveiled for Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens, the internet virtually exploded. Fans cheered, cried, and argued about what they had witnessed: new Jedi (21 seconds), a Sith Lord with a bizarrely safety-conscious lightsaber (52 seconds), and a droid resembling the Mitre football I used to play with at school (27 seconds). That spherical droid, named BB-8, has been made into a phone/tablet-controlled toy, which looks like a stroke of business genius on the part of Sphero, its creators. The must-have item, sold out in a number of places, is shaping up to be 2015’s number one Christmas gift. 3Doodler, the company behind our favourite 3D printing pen, have seemingly bought into the Star Wars toy hype as much as we have. After having a play with the remote-controlled BB-8 and noticing its detachable magnetic head, they decided to 3D print some replacement nobs. Now, using a 3Doodler, you can transform your BB-8 into a rolling R2D2, a spherical Skywalker, a dome-shaped Darth Vader, or a lurching Leia. You can also turn it into a French pirate.
- Italian Company MQB’s New York Showcase Includes 3D Printed Car for Children (3dprint.com)
September 29, 2015
Remember those “driveable” toy cars everyone had when they were kids? Some of them were the Flintstones-style kind that required you to sit with your feet through the open floor in order to push yourself along, which is the kind I remember the most. My cousins had one, and whenever I was dropped off at their house I would immediately run to the basement so I could try to jump into the driver’s seat before my cousin, who insisted for the longest time that only boys were allowed to drive cars, ever. But the really cool kids, the rich kids, had the kind with actual pedals. You could drive, steer, and curse at other drivers just like a grown-up. Oh, how I wanted one of those. It would have been the highlight of my plastic-filled 1990s American childhood.
- Aleph Objects Releases an Updated Cura LulzBot Edition at Maker Faire New York (3dprint.com)
September 25, 2015
As you would expect from a company that prides itself on selling 3D printers based on open source technology, Aleph Objects feels the same way about the software that they use to run them. They recommend that owners of their LulzBot 3D printers operate them and convert their 3D models into GCODE using their customized Cura LulzBot Edition software. Not only is Cura widely considered one of the best slicers available, but the LulzBot Edition was developed specifically for their entire line of 3D printers. The LulzBot team has even created pre-set Cura print profiles so no matter which of their 3D printers their users have, the Cura software has been optimized for that specific 3D printer.
- Student Simon Philips creates impressive table design with 3D printed parts (3ders.org)
September 25, 2015
Since 3D printing’s inception it has gone hand in hand with design, as the two terms are almost inextricable these days. It is no wonder then that young designers keep coming up with impressive design models that incorporate 3D printing technology.
- Teen Clock Maker Receives 3D Printer & More in Techno Goody Bag as Support from Microsoft (3dprint.com)
September 21, 2015
You never know what a Monday morning will bring–as in the case last week when one rather precocious kid took his basement-built clock into a Texas classroom to impress a teacher. His ‘reward’ was to end up in hot water with both the principal and the police.
- Fully Functional 3D Printer Built From Legos Can Now Print Chocolate (3dprint.com)
September 21, 2015
I’ve never taken an official poll of children, but I’d be willing to bet that, if you asked a group of children to list their ten favorite things, Legos and chocolate would be way up there on the list for a majority of kids. I know I was a big fan of both (oh, I still am, who am I kidding), but I never would have thought to combine the two. Other than eating chocolate while playing with Legos, which sounds like a pretty great Saturday afternoon.