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Ghost Guns Manufactured By A Floral Park, New York Man

Supreme Court Reaffirms Ghost Guns Are Regulated by the ATF

The ruling closes a loophole that made guns developed using 3D printers or assembled with homemade partners essentially untraceable.

Crime Thomas Maxwell Mar 26

Diy 3d Printer Tattoo Machine Emilytheengineer 1

This DIY Tattoo Machine Thankfully Includes an Emergency Shut-Off Lever

A YouTuber’s latest 3D printer project includes a real tattoo gun and a large clamp to keep your skin in place.

Gadgets Kyle Barr Feb 3

DEA Officer Who 3D-Printed Cocaine Gets 17 Years in Prison

The former Fed stole evidence and replaced it with a brick he made with a computer.

Crime Matthew Gault Jan 31

See the 99-Ton Robot That’s Printing Rocket Lab’s Neutron Rocket

The custom-built beast of a machine can finish a weeks-long task in one day.

Space & Spaceflight Passant Rabie Oct 22

Anker’s First 3D Printer Uses a Smart Camera to Spot Failed Prints

The AnkerMake M5 also promises impressive print speeds compared to the current competition.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Apr 6

Hospitals Turn to 3D-Printed Donations for Sorely Needed Supplies in Covid-19 Outbreak

A network of 3D printer-users has stepped in to help hospitals grappling with critical shortages of protective gear and other vital medical supplies during the covid-19 pandemic, NPR reports. It’s the latest unorthodox emergency measure U.S. health workers, who are pleading for equipment, have been increasingly forced to rely on as America has soared past…

Health Alyse Stanley Mar 28

Hospital Workers Are Making Their Own Face Masks Using Craft Supplies

Hospital workers in Washington state have started to make their own face masks from supplies they’ve purchased at craft stores, according to a new report from Seattle’s KOMO TV station. The DIY face masks are just the latest example of health workers around the world getting creative as they struggle with shortages of vital medical…

Tech News Matt Novak Mar 18

Backer Funds From Kickstarter Campaign Allegedly Stolen to Build a Damn House

Peachy Printer launched on Kickstarter back in September of 2013. It claimed to be the world’s first $100 3D printer and scanner, and raised $651,091 CAD in backer money. Now Rylan Grayston, the company’s CEO, claims that his co-founder David Boe embezzled nearly half of that money, and used it to build himself a new…

Tech News Avery Ellis May 11

The best 3D printer is this Easy Cheese 3D printer

I’ve seen the future and it’s not 3D printing, it’s 3D Easy Cheese printing. That is, an Easy Cheese canister is taken and made to splooge out the golden orange yellow scientific miracle substance that is Easy Cheese like a 3D printer would print out objects. It fails spectacularly and hilariously and satirically but I’ve…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 30

This 3D printed car transmission works like a charm

Check out this five speed manual transmission 3D printed after a Toyota model—the W56 transmission. Watching how the cogwheels spin and react every time the guy changes gears is just amazing. Here’s a 3D printed Toyota 22RE engine made by the same guy: SPLOID is delicious brain candy. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.

Sploid Omar Kardoudi Mar 26

Awesome liquid 3D printer oozes out things from goo

This new Carbon3D printer totally looks like the science fiction future but it’s real. The liquid 3D printing method uses liquid resin, laser light and oxygen to print out things up to 25-100 times faster than traditional 3D printers. It’s fascinating technology and it looks like things are just magically rising from the gooey liquid,…

Sploid Casey Chan Mar 17

The Space Station Now Has Manufacturing Capability

The 3D printer on the International Space Station is up and running! The first object manufactured on the station instead of delivered to it is a faceplate for the extruder’s casing. This opens up not just in-orbit manufacturing, but another self-repairing machine. The first object printed in space: a faceplate for the extruder’s casing. Image…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Nov 26

Rocket Engine Made With 3D Printed Parts Survives First Hot Fire Tests

Parts of this engine were 3D printed using copper alloy materials. All of them survived their first-ever hot fire test, and 18 more hot fire tests in different injector and thrust chamber assembly configurations. The future is so cool. Top image: Scale rocket engine with 3D printed copper alloy parts undergoes hot fire testing. Credit:…

Tech News Mika McKinnon Nov 13

Could These Modular Print Heads Be What 3D Printing Really Needs?

Bringing 3D fabrication tools directly to the consumer has been fraught with challenges; these at-home printers are either insanely expensive or limited in scope. A new concept called FLUX claims that it’s solved all those conundrums with an all-in-one 3D printer that offers modular extruders for ultimate flexibility. Is this the game-changer we’ve been waiting…

Tech News Alissa Walker Nov 11

Disney Research 3D-Prints Figurines With the Most Lifelike Hair Ever

3D printing can make an action figure copy of your body and face, but the hair usually ends up looking like a Lego minifig wig. The mad scientists at Disney Research just solved that, with an algorithm so powerful it can trace your hair’s shape and color with ultra-realism. The research team at Disney Research…

Tech News Bob Sorokanich Aug 9

NASA Scientists Have 3D-Printed A Replica Of A Meteorite On Mars

We’re still several years away from a Mars Sample Return Mission. So, for now, we’ll have to settle for the next best thing. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has created a true-size facsimile of “Block Island”— a Martian meteorite discovered by the Opportunity rover in 2009. Usually, meteorites break apart upon hitting the Martian surface, since…

io9 Mark Strauss Apr 30

But how does it taste? Watch NASA’s 3D pizza printer in action

Last year, NASA announced that it would be funding 3D food printing, kicking things off with a 3D pizza printer. Now we can watch the project in progress as the 3D printer builds a possibly tasty pie. https://gizmodo.com/nasas-next-3d-printing-frontier-is-pizza-509023404 NASA awarded Anjan Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, a $125,000 grant to develop a prototype…

io9 Lauren Davis Jan 24

Loving father built a prosthetic hand for his son with a 3D printer

Kids are just the best. And dads who love their kids make them even better. Leon is a boy who was born without fingers on one of his hands. Instead of making him think he was different, his father Paul McCarthy made him believe he was special. In fact, McCarthy made a prosthetic hand with…

Sploid Casey Chan Nov 4

Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For a Living)

Everyone’s now aware of 3D printing — they’ve read about it in the papers, on blogs or seen it on TV. The mentality now seems to be that, in the future, we’ll be able to download our products or make them ourselves with CAD programs, apps and 3D scanners, then just print them out, either…

Tech News Nick Allen May 17

3D print your own invisibility cloak

Got an industrial-grade 3D printer laying around that you don’t know what to do with? 3D print your own “invisibility cloak”! We recently told you about how it’s possible to 3D print a handgun. Now, a new study shows you can even 3D print an invisibility cloak. https://gizmodo.com/you-can-now-3d-print-a-fully-operational-handgun-493142303 But there are a couple of caveats:…

io9 Joseph Bennington-Castro May 16

3D Printer

Supreme Court Reaffirms Ghost Guns Are Regulated by the ATF

This DIY Tattoo Machine Thankfully Includes an Emergency Shut-Off Lever

DEA Officer Who 3D-Printed Cocaine Gets 17 Years in Prison

See the 99-Ton Robot That’s Printing Rocket Lab’s Neutron Rocket

Anker’s First 3D Printer Uses a Smart Camera to Spot Failed Prints

Hospitals Turn to 3D-Printed Donations for Sorely Needed Supplies in Covid-19 Outbreak

Hospital Workers Are Making Their Own Face Masks Using Craft Supplies

Backer Funds From Kickstarter Campaign Allegedly Stolen to Build a Damn House

The best 3D printer is this Easy Cheese 3D printer

This 3D printed car transmission works like a charm

Awesome liquid 3D printer oozes out things from goo

The Space Station Now Has Manufacturing Capability

Rocket Engine Made With 3D Printed Parts Survives First Hot Fire Tests

Could These Modular Print Heads Be What 3D Printing Really Needs?

Disney Research 3D-Prints Figurines With the Most Lifelike Hair Ever

NASA Scientists Have 3D-Printed A Replica Of A Meteorite On Mars

But how does it taste? Watch NASA’s 3D pizza printer in action

Loving father built a prosthetic hand for his son with a 3D printer

Why 3D Printing Is Overhyped (I Should Know, I Do It For a Living)

3D print your own invisibility cloak

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