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PinJig Makes Soldering PCBs a Breeze

One of the things I love about 3D printing is how it’s empowering makers and inventors to come up with new devices that would have been prohibitively expensive to prototype…

Aleph Objects Announces the LulzBot TAZ 6 Available May 17 for $2,500

Get the top spot on all of those end-of-year Best Of lists ready, because I’m pretty sure that the desktop 3D printer that is most likely to fill it was…

UC Davis Students Build Robotic “Project Naughty Ball”

Hengjiu Kang, Yi Lu, and Yunan Song are students at the University of California Davis, juniors and seniors with a mighty impressive list of career-starting projects and internships. Kang is a…

The 2SQUARED Mini: 3D Printing Illuminated Art Inspired by Burning Man

If you were at Burning Man or Coachella in 2014, you might have seen the 50ft Squared Tree. If you missed it there, perhaps you saw it at the San…

Amazing 3D Printed/Cardboard Bicycle Will Be Ridden for First Time at Maker Faire

The Bay Area Maker Faire is set to kick off this weekend in San Mateo, California, with “makers” from around the world arriving to exchange ideas, marvel in the madness…

Smartphone Controlled Electric Skateboard 3D Printed at Autodesk’s Pier 9

Skateboards have long been the transportation choice of many a car-less teenager, but now that an entire generation of skaters have grown into adulthood many of them have brought their…