3D printing

Got a 3D Printer? Build Yourself a Loyal Robot Companion

They’re not in every home just yet, but if you’re lucky enough to have a 3D printer at your disposal, a French sculptor by the name of Gael Langevin will let you create more than just plastic trinkets. He’s spent the past year developing a 3D printable robot, and has made the open source plans…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Nokia Wants You to 3D Print Your Own Lumia 820 Cover

Back in 1999, the coolest trend in tech was to swap the plastic cover of your beloved Nokia 5110 for a jazzier, more colorful number. Now, Nokia is reincarnating that trend, by releasing mecahnical drawings of the back cover of its Lumia 820 so that users can 3D print their own. https://gizmodo.com/lumia-820-the-windows-phone-for-the-rest-of-us-5940629 Arguably this is…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Whoa. A 3D Printer That Actually Looks Like it Belongs in Your Home

Cubify’s colorful 3D printers look like coffee makers, and that’s exactly the point—they’re a natural fit for your home. And they might be just the ticket to making this 3D printing thing stick with normal people. The Cube is kind of the opposite of Makerbot’s at-home 3D printer, the Replicator, which is a big bulky…

Tech News Leslie Horn

This 3D Printer Churns Out 3-Color Objects as Big as a Basketball

We all know size matters. As, seemingly, does 3D Systems, because its latest desktop 3D printer is a whopper, with a build platform that can handle designs of up to 1,030 cubic inches. Yes, that is big enough to recreate a basketball. The CubeX—which 3D Systems modestly refers to as “the ultimate desktop 3D printer”—offers…

Tech News Jamie Condliffe

Christmas Cookies Are the Best Use of 3D Printing Yet

Forget guns, records, even hideous iPhone cases; Ralf Holleis has found the best use of 3D printers and like any technology, it involves food. Namely delicious Christmas cookies. https://gizmodo.com/makerbot-is-finally-removing-3d-printable-gun-designs-5970097 Designed in 3D modelling software the holiday treats are then printed using a cookie dough-filled syringe, instead of melted plastic like a traditional 3D model. And…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

There’s a New Site Just for 3D-Printed Gun Designs

Following the Sandy Hook shooting, Makerbot really started cracking down on 3D-printed gun part plans on Thingiverse, its database of templates. That’s a far cry from scrubbing them from the web however, and it should come as no surprise that a new site has popped up to fill in the gap, specifically with the very…

Tech News Eric Limer

Yep, 3D Printed Records Sound Awful, But They’re Still Pretty Awesome

If you don’t recognize it, that’s Daft Punk’s Around the World playing off a plastic LP created with a high-resolution 3D printer. It sounds awful, even worse than AM radio ever did, but that’s not what’s really important here. The fact that it exists at all is what’s neat, and it’s another example of how…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

Makerbot Is Finally Removing 3D-Printable Gun Designs

In the wake of the horrific shooting last week in Newtown, Connecticut, Makerbot has begun to strip gun designs from Thingverse, its community-generated site that has blueprints for 3D printable designs. https://gizmodo.com/the-makerbot-replicator-2-prints-a-bigger-more-detaile-5944706 Guns have always been banned from Thingverse, although the site is largely unpoliced. But in light of the recent tragedy, Makerbot’s legal team…

Tech News Leslie Horn

You’ll Go Insane Trying To Understand How These Interwoven Gears Can Possibly Work

3D printing has promised us a future where everything will be available on demand, not just media. But in the meantime the technology seems to have found a niche as a way to produce mind-boggling geared creations that appear to skirt the laws of physics and the universe. https://gizmodo.com/this-cube-made-of-gears-shouldnt-work-but-it-does-5867151 If you’re calling shenanigans on Henry…

Tech News Andrew Liszewski

This Skull iPhone Case Is 3D-Printed and a Piece of Art

We might, at some point, stop being awed by 3D printed products. But that hasn’t happened yet, meaning this 3D printed skull iPhone case ($52) is pretty damn slick. Not only is it good looking, it’s a piece of art. Inspired by “Degeneration,” a series by Hugo Arcier that’s based on an algorithm that makes…

Tech News Leslie Horn

Your next sex toy could come out of a 3D printer (NSFW)

Finally, a use for 3D printers that we can all get behind! Two services are now available that can help you generate a sex toy from scratch by using a 3D printer — which can produce preconfigured dildos of various shapes, sizes, and colors. There’s even an option to create an exact replica of your…

io9 George Dvorsky

3D printers could fabricate tools out of moon dust

One of the challenges of putting a colony on the moon is the need for stuff: building materials, food, and tools. Fortunately, researchers at Washington State University are working on a project that would help lunar colonists make some of those tools right at home: developing 3D printers that can print tools out of moon…

io9 Lauren Davis

Custom 3D-Printed Beams Can Be 10,000 Times Stronger Than Steel

Steel beams are pretty uniformly strong, but they’re all run of the mill, literally. If you start 3D-printing custom beams for the exact purpose they’re intended to serve though, you’ve got a regular space-age material on your hands. It’s lighter than steel and orders of magnitude stronger. The process, developed byYong Mao of the University…

Tech News Eric Limer

Paper-Based 3D Printer Now Adds a Splash of Color

Back in 2008 Mcor Technologies unveiled its brilliant Matrix 3D printer that created models from a stack of regular old copier paper. It was a cheap way to dabble in 3D printing, and now the company has unveiled a new model, the Iris, that adds a bit of color to your creations. https://gizmodo.com/mcor-matrix-3d-printer-replicates-objects-on-the-cheap-5079482 Like with…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

There’s Now a 3D Printer That Can Replace Human Cartilage

Somehow 3D printing has gotten even more amazing. Scientists over at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine have created a hybrid 3D printer that can create implantable human cartilage. There are already 3D printers that can create skin for healing wounds, but this particular machine—called a 3D bio-printer—is unique because it marries two techniques,…

Health Leslie Horn

Skyfall Filmmakers 3D-Printed This Rare Aston Martin So They Wouldn’t Damage the Original

These days filmmakers often turn to computer graphics for scenes of destruction that would otherwise be too expensive or dangerous to stage in real life. But Skyfall posed a different problem. Namely that the effects crew didn’t want to damage a priceless 1960 Aston Martin DB 5 that appeared in the original Bond film 50…

Movies Andrew Liszewski

Tokyo’s 3D printing photobooth lets you turn yourself into an action figure

The advent of the photobooth gave ordinary people access to inexpensive photo portraits. The 3D printing photobooth might do the same thing—with personal action figures. A pop-up shop opening this month in Tokyo’s Harajuku neighborhood will let folks print out 3D dolls of themselves. Omote 3D Shashin Kan will open on November 24 in the…

io9 Lauren Davis

How NASA is Making Rockets By Welding Metal Powder with Lasers

Normally, rockets are made of a whole bunch of small parts that are intricately attached to each other to form the body that can actually fly into space. If you could build complex geometrical parts out of a single piece of material, however, things would get much easier. That’s where metal powder and lasers come…

Space & Spaceflight Eric Limer

The First 3D Printing Photobooth Is Like a Walk-In Shrink Ray

If you’ve ever thought it would be cool to have a miniature figurine of yourself—or maybe a loved one—just hanging out on your desk and doing it’s thing, your day has come. The first 3D printing photobooth is due to open in Japan later this month. From November 24th to January 14th 2013, those who…

Tech News Eric Limer

Soon, Your Vaccinations Will Be Arriving Via Email

Craig Venter, the über-DNA jockey who quietly sequenced the human genome using his own DNA, then made “synthetic life” by outfitting a gutted bacterium with homemade genes, says his next trick will be emailing biological molecules, using 3D biological printers. The move that could revolutionise healthcare – and biological warfare. Venter discussed the idea at…

Health Debora MacKenzie - New Scientist

Got a 3D Printer? Build Yourself a Loyal Robot Companion

Nokia Wants You to 3D Print Your Own Lumia 820 Cover

Whoa. A 3D Printer That Actually Looks Like it Belongs in Your Home

This 3D Printer Churns Out 3-Color Objects as Big as a Basketball

Christmas Cookies Are the Best Use of 3D Printing Yet

There’s a New Site Just for 3D-Printed Gun Designs

Yep, 3D Printed Records Sound Awful, But They’re Still Pretty Awesome

Makerbot Is Finally Removing 3D-Printable Gun Designs

You’ll Go Insane Trying To Understand How These Interwoven Gears Can Possibly Work

This Skull iPhone Case Is 3D-Printed and a Piece of Art

Your next sex toy could come out of a 3D printer (NSFW)

3D printers could fabricate tools out of moon dust

Custom 3D-Printed Beams Can Be 10,000 Times Stronger Than Steel

Paper-Based 3D Printer Now Adds a Splash of Color

There’s Now a 3D Printer That Can Replace Human Cartilage

Skyfall Filmmakers 3D-Printed This Rare Aston Martin So They Wouldn’t Damage the Original

Tokyo’s 3D printing photobooth lets you turn yourself into an action figure

How NASA is Making Rockets By Welding Metal Powder with Lasers

The First 3D Printing Photobooth Is Like a Walk-In Shrink Ray

Soon, Your Vaccinations Will Be Arriving Via Email

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