3D printing

This One-Piece 3D Printed Mini Crossbow Is Adorably Dangerous

There’s a war brewing over the use of 3D printers to make unlicensed guns and other firearms. But for the time being 3D printed weaponry is still a novelty, particularly this fully functional crossbow, which was created in a single printing pass, complete with a cleverly designed flexible working trigger. The only part that didn’t…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese goes Metropolis in this 3D-printed dress

In this incredible 3D printed dress, burlesque performer Dita Von Teese looks like a cross between the beautiful robot and the art nouveau buildings from 1920s scifi movie Metropolis. Not surprisingly, one of the dress’ designers was an architect. Here’s the Metropolis robot. Note the shoulders. And here’s the iconic citiscape from the same film.…

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MakerBot’s Desktop 3D Scanner Is a Real-Life Star Trek Replicator

Once a tool designed exclusively for trained technicians, 3D printers are now almost as easy to use as your desktop inkjet—except when it comes to designing and prepping the requisite 3D models. That step still requires an expertise with 3D modeling software, and is a barrier to 3D printing that MakerBot hopes to remove with…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Dude Has 75 Percent of His Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Replica

A man has had the first ever 3D-printed skull-replacement fitted, swapping out a whole 75 per cent of the bone in his head for a man-made replacement. The unnamed man, from the US, first had his skull scanned to create a digital replica, before the large replacement plate was printed out. It has specially designed…

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Dita Von Teese Flaunts the First 3D-Printed Dress You Might Actually Own Someday

You’re looking at the first fully articulated 3D-printed dress. Printed off at Shapeways, the piece was designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitoni specifically for burlesque star Dita Von Teese. In the future, this is the kind of clothing you might be able to get from a department store. Sprinkled with 13,0000 Swarovski crystals, the…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Now You Can Get Your Favorite Mountain 3D Printed

If you want a permanent reminder of an amazing hike, ski trip, or whatever else, here’s a good idea: a new website called The Terrainator lets you select your favourite geographical features and get ’em 3D printed. Dan Wilson, the man behind the project, explains how it came about: I’ve had the good fortune to…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Your 3D Printer Could Eat Empty Milk Jugs Instead of Expensive Plastic

Oh 3D printing. You’re so glamorous. You’re so cool. But, let’s be honest, you’re soooo expensive. Maybe instead of printing with $30 spools of plastic you could print with empty shampoo bottles and milk jugs. Oh, you can do that? See, this is why everyone loves you. Researchers at Michigan Technological University have created a…

Tech News Lily Hay Newman

Will 3D Printing Change the World?

The easy answer: no probably not. But after being shouted out by POTUS himself at the SOTU, 3D printing is slowly, possibly, maybe creeping into a bigger deal for more than just Maker Faire-types. So the wonderful folks at PBS Off Book decided to take a closer look and answer the question once and for…

Tech News Casey Chan

Crowdfund a Batman documentary, 3D printing pens, and a WWII setting for Lovecraftian RPGs

If you’ve always wished you could draw objects in 3D, there’s a pen that uses basic 3D-printing technology to let you draw wire art-style objects, and it’s looking for a little crowdfunding. So is a documentary on the power of the Batman story, an RPG setting that places cosmic horrors in WWII, the print volume…

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Researchers use a 3D printer to help grow an ear

The potential for 3D printers is quite mind-blowing, especially when considering their role in biotechnology. The latest breakthrough in this regard comes from Cornell University researchers who showed that it’s possible to create a replacement ear using a 3D printer and an injection of living cells. Once refined, the technique will allow biomedical engineers to…

io9 George Dvorsky

This 3D-printed model spaceship is as long as a human hair is wide

To show off their microscale 3D printers, Nanoscribe printed this model of a Wing Commander Hellcat. It took about 50 seconds to print and the dimensions are 125µm x 81µm x 26.8µm, with its length roughly the diameter of a human hair. Now we can film space battles under an electron microscope. [via Design You…

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Watch These Lasers Print a Microscopic Spaceship In Under a Minute

Building a spaceship generally isn’t something you do on a whim. But that’s not quite the case with this tiny one, which can be fully printed by lasers in under a minute. Using mirrors and—fittingly—lasers, the laser lithography system flashes laser power to solidify piles of powdered polymer into a pretty sweet little model of…

Tech News Eric Limer

Two hobbyists create a DiY prosthetic hand for a 5-year-old boy in South Africa

A special effects artist and woodworker living hundreds of miles apart have pieced together a prosthetic hand for a 5-year-old South African boy who was born without fingers on his right hand. Using a 3D printer, along with bits of cable, bungee cord returns, and rubber thimbles, the two men collaborated over the internet to…

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Someone Out There Is 3D-Printing Faces With Your Discarded DNA Scraps

It’s probably not something you think about a lot, but we all leave pieces of ourselves everywhere we go. Flakes of skin here, a renegade hair there, the occasional loogie, they all leave some of your DNA behind. And while it normally goes untouched, someone could use it to say, 3D-print an approximation of your…

Tech News Eric Limer

A 3D Printer That Generates Human Embryonic Stem Cells

3-D printers can produce gun parts, aircraft wings, food and a lot more, but this new 3-D printed product may be the craziest thing yet: human embryonic stem cells. Using stem cells as the “ink” in a 3-D printer, researchers in Scotland hope to eventually build 3-D printed organs and tissues. A team at Heriot-Watt…

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Scientists Have 3D-Printed Embryonic Stem Cells

For the first time, scientists have produced human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) using 3D printing. They’re utterly amazing, and they could be used to reproduce kidneys, hearts, and other organs in the future. A team at Heriot-Way University in Scotland loaded up stem cells as ink for the 3D printer, and using a valve, pushed…

Health Leslie Horn

Soon, 3D printers could be building houses on the Moon out of lunar dust

London-based design firm Foster+Partners aims to partner-up with the European Space Agency, and build structures on the Moon from the regolith found on the surface. The inflatable scaffolding would be manufactured on Earth, then transported to the Moon and covered with a durable shell constructed by robotically-driven 3D printers. All images courtesy Foster+Partners. This is…

io9 George Dvorsky

This Is What the First Lunar Base Could Really Look Like

We have seen many concepts, but this is the most realistic plan yet for humanity’s first Moon Base. It will be more efficient and cheaper to build than any other alternative, as it uses 3D printing to quickly transform raw lunar soil into habitable domes. Also? It looks awesome. The lunar soil structure will provide…

Space & Spaceflight Jesus Diaz

This robotic 3D printer doesn’t need your help, thank you very much

As if 3D printers weren’t mind-blowing enough, iRobot (yes, the company responsible for the Roomba) has just filed a patent for a robot-assisted all-in-one fabricator that can print, mill, drill, and finish a final product — and all without human intervention. Called the “Robotic Fabricator,” the system is a precursor to machines that will eventually…

io9 George Dvorsky

An Android You Can Make With A 3D Printer

French sculptor Gael Langevin’s InMoov project combines two of our favorite things: 3D printing and robotics. Though he had no previous experience making robots, Langevin spent the last year figuring it all out, ultimately developing and coding a voice controlled android that can be constructed from parts generated by a 3D printer. And not only…

io9 George Dvorsky

This One-Piece 3D Printed Mini Crossbow Is Adorably Dangerous

Burlesque superstar Dita Von Teese goes Metropolis in this 3D-printed dress

MakerBot’s Desktop 3D Scanner Is a Real-Life Star Trek Replicator

Dude Has 75 Percent of His Skull Replaced By 3D-Printed Replica

Dita Von Teese Flaunts the First 3D-Printed Dress You Might Actually Own Someday

Now You Can Get Your Favorite Mountain 3D Printed

Your 3D Printer Could Eat Empty Milk Jugs Instead of Expensive Plastic

Will 3D Printing Change the World?

Crowdfund a Batman documentary, 3D printing pens, and a WWII setting for Lovecraftian RPGs

Researchers use a 3D printer to help grow an ear

This 3D-printed model spaceship is as long as a human hair is wide

Watch These Lasers Print a Microscopic Spaceship In Under a Minute

Two hobbyists create a DiY prosthetic hand for a 5-year-old boy in South Africa

Someone Out There Is 3D-Printing Faces With Your Discarded DNA Scraps

A 3D Printer That Generates Human Embryonic Stem Cells

Scientists Have 3D-Printed Embryonic Stem Cells

Soon, 3D printers could be building houses on the Moon out of lunar dust

This Is What the First Lunar Base Could Really Look Like

This robotic 3D printer doesn’t need your help, thank you very much

An Android You Can Make With A 3D Printer

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