3D printers

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A Review Of The Printrbot 3D Printer

If you're looking around for 3D printers that are both inexpensive and open source friendly, the Printrbot Simple Kit will probably catch your attention. Read More »

12-Year-Old Creates $350 Braille Printer With Lego And Open Source Software

Lee Matthews | Geek | February 18, 2014

For those of you who thought baking soda volcanoes made for a pretty sweet science fair project, 12-year-old Shubham Bannerjee’s entry will absolutely blow you away. It’s an actual working braille printer that was built with about $350 worth of Lego that runs on open source software. Read More »

3D Printers in Space: How the Maker Movement Made It to the Final Frontier

Conner Forrest | Tech Republic | July 22, 2016

Crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently put a very interesting thing into orbit—a 3D printer. The printer, created in tandem by Lowe's and a company called Made in Space, could be used to produce tools and items needed in case of an emergency, or just for everyday use. The printer was installed during the week of June 27, 2016 by NASA astronaut Jeff Williams. While there are multiple types of 3D printers, the model in question prints models using plastic filament in a process called fused deposition modeling (FDM). So far, it has produced a Kobalt-branded wrench to be used for projects on the ISS...

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3D Printing Could Save The Environment, Or Possibly Destroy It

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | December 17, 2013

Imagine the world of 3D printing fully realized. Read More »

3D Printing Goes Mainstream Retail

Rebecca J. Rosen | The Atlantic | August 20, 2013

Just another day at UPS: Photocopy the ol' resume, ship back shoes to Zappos, print a car part. Read More »

3D Printing Helps Amputees

Staff Writer | ITWeb | January 10, 2014

Not Impossible, a California-based media and technology company, has embarked on a project to use 3D printing to provide hands and arms for amputees in South Sudan and the war-torn Nuba Mountains. Read More »

3D Printing Inventor 'Amazed' At Healthcare Applications

Alison Diana | InformationWeek Healthcare | June 10, 2014

When Charles "Chuck" Hull created the first 3D printer in 1983, he had no idea next-generation devices would one day print prostheses. Read More »

3D Scanners Are Getting Cheap So Fast, The Age Of 3D Piracy Could Soon Be Upon Us

Rachel Feltman and Christopher Mims | Quartz | August 15, 2013

[...MakerBot], the leading maker of desktop 3D printers, is launching its own 3D scanner next week, and Signe Brewster at GigaOM is betting it will cost just $500. Read More »

A 3D printed Hand Brings The Crowd To Their Feet

Peregrine Hawthorn | OpenSource.com | March 18, 2014

Earlier this year, I shared my story about open source designs and my 3D printed prosthetic hand to a room of 4,600+ at Intel’s Annual International Sales Conference in Las Vegas. I joined Jon Schull on stage, the founder of e-NABLE, an online group dedicated to open source 3D printable assistive devices.

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A Sub-$1,000 3D Printer For Metal

Signe Brewster | Bloomberg Businessweek | November 13, 2013

3D printers can make fantastic shapes, whether someone wants to create an interlocking shape with no seams or a bacon-textured mobius strip. Read More »

A Whole New Dimension As Manufacturing Goes 3D

John Hearne | Irish Examiner | January 11, 2014

If you want to get some idea of the hype surrounding 3D printing, check out what the stockmarket thinks. When Voxeljet, a German manufacturer of 3D, printers staged their initial public offering last month, its shares instantly doubled. [...] Read More »

Are New Ultra-Cheap 3D Printers Revolutionary Or Just Toys?

Christopher Mims | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

[The] parallels between the personal computing revolution and the one in 3D printing are irresistible [...]. Ok, so these things don’t do much more than print out easily-breakable, rough-hewn plastic tchotchkes, but watch out! Some day we’ll use them to solve the really big problems. Read More »

Best Of Open Hardware In 2014

Luis Ibanez | Opensource.com | December 22, 2014

Open hardware is the physical foundation of the open movement. It is through understanding, designing, manufacturing, commercializing, and adopting open hardware, that we built the basis for a healthy and self-reliant community of open. And the year of 2014 had plenty of activities in the open hardware front...

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Cartilage Made Easy With Novel Hybrid Printer

Press Release | Institute of Physics | November 22, 2012

The printing of 3D tissue has taken a major step forward with the creation of a novel hybrid printer that simplifies the process of creating implantable cartilage. Read More »

CES 2014: How 3D Printing's Changing Lives In S Sudan

Arthur Goldstuck | Mail & Guardian | January 9, 2014

Not Impossible, the company using 3D printers to provide hands and arms for amputees in South Sudan, has stunned CES with a life-changing initiative. Read More »