3D printing

HP Just Launched Its Own Super-Fast 3D Printer

Today, HP announced a new technology and 3D printer it thinks is going to revolutionize the industry. This massive machine isn’t meant to sit in your home, but rather be a new piece of tech in the arsenal of additive manufacturing. Using a new technology that HP calls “Multi Jet Fusion,” the company says printing…

Tech News Darren Orf

The Replicator Is Still Sci-Fi, But Here’s A Start

The dream of the Replicator—a machine that can create or copy any object—has mesmerized us ever since Star Trek used one to conjure a glass of water out of thin air. Yet, like so much other sci-fi tech invented by show business, it’s always been just out of reach. The 3D printer company XYZ Printing…

Reviews Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

T-Rex Skull Shower Heads Justify the Existence of 3D Printers

The next time someone asks you to explain 3D printers, and why anyone would want one in their home, you can simply bring up this article and show them that without 3D printing technology we may never have had a T-Rex shower head. Available for download for free from MakerBot’s Thingiverse, the T-Rex shower head…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Nevermind Cargo Containers — These Are the Best Post-Apocalyptic Homes

Instant architecture is fascinating because it allows us to imagine cities built ultra-fast in the wake of some apocalypse. And now, a group of inventors in Italy have created a robot that can build houses in hours, by extruding mud into the perfect design. This video was taken at the Maker Faire in Rome, where…

io9 Annalee Newitz

SimCity IRL: Be the Mayor Of Your Own Tiny 3D-Printed Metropolis

Automobile enthusiasts can collect die-cast cars, animal lovers can collect plush toys, but architecture fans can’t really collect towering skyscrapers or sprawling art galleries. And that’s what inspired Steve Fox, an architecture enthusiast himself, to create a collection of tiny noteworthy 3D-printed buildings that can be collected and assembled into a miniature metropolis. The ittyblox,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This 3D printed frame makes building articulated Lego Mecha super easy

There’s something about Japanese-style Mecha that make them even more appealing when made out of blocky bits of Lego – and this 3D printed frame makes building a robot of your own design all the more easier, as well as giving you a bunch of articulation for posing it when you’re done! The frame is…

Tech News James Whitbrook

Scientists Produce Rounded Crystals That Could Lead To 3D-Printed Pills

Taking inspiration from the microscopic rounded structures that creatures like starfish naturally grow to improve their limited vision, researchers at the University of Michigan have succeeded in artificially creating smooth facet-less crystals in the lab that have the potential to revolutionize everything from solar panels to LEDs. The rounded crystals are produced using a technique…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

New Software Lets the Visually Impaired 3D Print a Map To Go

You probably get pretty frustrated when you catch your parents printing out Google Maps directions even though they have a smartphone, but the notion seems less ridiculous when those same maps are coming off of a 3D printer as a way to let the visually impaired safely navigate a city by foot. Japan’s Geospatial Information…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Iron Man Prosthetic Hand Will Make Kids Feel Like Superheroes

Remember that prosthetic with Wolverine-like claws? It’s got nothing on this Iron Man 3D-printed glove, designed for kids in need of a prosthetic, packed with electronics and other Stark-approved features. Not only does the prosthetic have a thruster in the palm that automatically lights up with LEDs when the hand is cocked back, it’s also…

Books & Comics Andrew Liszewski

Scientists 3D Printed Self-Assembling Wood and Carbon Fiber

For the most part, our wood and carbon fiber objects are solid, inert, and boring lumps. They don’t bend or curl—or at least, they aren’t supposed to. But MIT researchers have created wood and carbon fiber specially designed to be dynamic, conjuring up visions of wood furniture that self-assembles out of the flat pack or…

Tech News Sarah Zhang

Doctored 3D Models Of The Rosetta Comet Are the Best

As the Rosetta spacecraft acquires more precise measurements of the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scientists are able to create detailed 3D models. Last week, the ESA made that data available for downloading, allowing people to make their own comet replicas—sometimes, with a few creative embellishments. To get a sense of how much more detailed the measurements have…

io9 Mark Strauss

3D-Printed Machine Gun Folds and Shoots Endless Paper Airplanes

It doesn’t matter what side of the debate you’re on when it comes to using 3D printers to make guns, how could anyone being against using the technology to build a machine gun that folds and fires an endless barrage of paper airplanes? There are a few off-the-shelf parts in Dieter Michael Krone’s wonderful creation,…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Arduino’s New 3D Printer Will Cost You Less Than $1000

Arduino is at the heart of do-it-yourself electronics, and now the company wants to make inroads into additive manufacturing with its 3D printer: The Arduino Materia 101. As Arduino explains in a blog post, the PLA printer is being built for the purpose of “simplifying access to the world of 3D printing and rapid prototyping.”…

Tech News Darren Orf

The First Concert With Only 3D-Printed Instruments Doesn’t Sound Too Bad

This is footage from the what was apparently the first live concert played completely with 3D-printed instruments. From the little bit we can hear, it doesn’t sound as bad as you might expect! The show, played by students from Sweeden’s Lund University Malmö Academy of Music, featured a band with two electric guitars, a drum…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Bold Machines: MakerBot Founder Bets Big on 3D Printing’s Next Wave

When Bre Pettis, the co-founder of MakerBot, began his company in 2009, the mission was clear: make 3D printing accessible. Five years later, the company has sold tens of thousands of printers and joined forces with the industry stalwart Stratasys. Now that these creation machines are (relatively) financially feasible, how are we going to use…

Tech News Darren Orf

This Shot of the Moon Is the First Photo Taken By a 3D-Printed Telescope

You might spend a few thousand dollars on a telescope that can see the moon’s surface in detail, but a team of astronomers at University of Sheffield spent just a fraction of that. Using a 3D printer and a Raspberry Pi camera module, they built a telescope that can shoot 5MB images of sky. The…

Tech News Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

Watch SpaceX’s Early Morning Dragon Spacecraft Launch to the ISS

After a 24-hour delay due to rain, NASA and SpaceX finally launched the Falcon 9/Dragon spacecraft at 1:52 am ET at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on its three-day journey to the International Space Station. Now, you can watch the 15-minute spectacle thanks to NASA. “There’s nothing like a good launch, it’s just…

Space & Spaceflight Darren Orf

NASA Is Blasting the First 3D Printer Into Space Tonight

A few minutes after 2 AM tonight, a SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft will lift off from Cape Canaveral in Florida carrying something that’s never been taken into space: A 3D printer. When it docks with the ISS, it will deliver the first machine capable of making things in orbit—a huge step forward for exploration.…

Space & Spaceflight Kelsey Campbell-Dollaghan

In The Boxtrolls, 3D Printing Makes Stop Motion Animation Look Magical

The Boxtrolls takes you into a beautiful bright Dickensian world where cheese means status and box-clad trolls are at the bottom of society. It’s the biggest stop motion production ever, and it would’ve been impossible a few years ago. But the creators of the film took a 75-year-old technique and introduced a whole new set…

Tech News Leslie Horn

3D Printing Just Wireframe Models Can Vastly Speed Up Prototyping

When 3D printing technologies were first adopted for manufacturing decades ago, they were referred to as rapid prototyping machines because compared to old methods, they were able to churn out parts with remarkable speed. But even today’s 3D printing technology has room for improvement, and a new technique that involves printing only simple wireframe models…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

HP Just Launched Its Own Super-Fast 3D Printer

The Replicator Is Still Sci-Fi, But Here’s A Start

T-Rex Skull Shower Heads Justify the Existence of 3D Printers

Nevermind Cargo Containers — These Are the Best Post-Apocalyptic Homes

SimCity IRL: Be the Mayor Of Your Own Tiny 3D-Printed Metropolis

This 3D printed frame makes building articulated Lego Mecha super easy

Scientists Produce Rounded Crystals That Could Lead To 3D-Printed Pills

New Software Lets the Visually Impaired 3D Print a Map To Go

Iron Man Prosthetic Hand Will Make Kids Feel Like Superheroes

Scientists 3D Printed Self-Assembling Wood and Carbon Fiber

Doctored 3D Models Of The Rosetta Comet Are the Best

3D-Printed Machine Gun Folds and Shoots Endless Paper Airplanes

Arduino’s New 3D Printer Will Cost You Less Than $1000

The First Concert With Only 3D-Printed Instruments Doesn’t Sound Too Bad

Bold Machines: MakerBot Founder Bets Big on 3D Printing’s Next Wave

This Shot of the Moon Is the First Photo Taken By a 3D-Printed Telescope

Watch SpaceX’s Early Morning Dragon Spacecraft Launch to the ISS

NASA Is Blasting the First 3D Printer Into Space Tonight

In The Boxtrolls, 3D Printing Makes Stop Motion Animation Look Magical

3D Printing Just Wireframe Models Can Vastly Speed Up Prototyping

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