Debra Thimmesch

Every Halloween there’s a post-holiday period of at least a couple of weeks in which you can observe the process of decay the Jack-O-Lantern on your front porch goes through before…

Design student Lionel Taito-Matamua is a problem-solver and an award-winner. The New Zealander who studies design at Wellington’s Victoria University traveled to Samoa recently and made an observation while there…

We’ve seen and reported on some impressive 3D printed anatomical models not to mention the bio-printed organs that constitute major breakthroughs in science and medicine. 3D printing has facilitated what…

Web-based 3D-printing service and community Sculpteo has been a major force in fostering the growth of 3D printing in France. As its community has grown well beyond the country’s borders, Sculpteo, whose…

As New York City landmarks on the obligatory tourist route are concerned, Macy’s Department Store is for most visitors a must-see. While the retail giant has never had trouble appealing…

If you sat down and made a “pros” and “cons” list of the ways in which the internet has changed or at least had a notable impact on your life,…

You’ve probably read or heard about what are called “DNA Exonerations”–those instances when modern DNA testing technology has been instrumental in reversing wrongful convictions. According to the Innocence Project, “a…

Shapeways recently joined forces with some major established and up-and-coming players in the world of web commerce, open share and source, streaming and more to confront the threat to internet…

Santiago and Mauricio Sierra, fashion and pop photographers and filmmakers who thrive on exploiting their media and eagerly embrace experimental techniques, have ventured into the world of 3D scanning and…

This past summer, from mid-May to late-August, an important 3D printing exhibition in Toronto, Canada titled “3DXL” was the venue for some of the most extraordinary, large-scale, 3D printed architectural…

If you’re an avid maker or even just a budding genius with a head filled with great ideas but you don’t have access to the tools required to materialize those…

Some things just go better together. Where would gin be without tonic? Cookies without milk? Fred without Ginger? Bonnie without Clyde? Pugs without, er, potatoes? As historic pairings go, the…

Back in January I wrote an article reporting on a survey taken by the online 3D printing service and web community Pinshape. The survey was attempting to find out who is…

Until very recently, creating architectural scale models was both time consuming and expensive. Most scale models created were of larger, nonresidential projects as residential clients of architectural firms typically don’t…

3D printing has been a real boon for the nostalgic branch of the maker movement. Suddenly you can use 3D printing to recreate your favorite, um, thing–you name it and…

The call for entries for MakerBot’s Thingiverse Filament Challenge asks 3D printers to clean up their acts and possibly win a prize for doing so. That’s a better deal than my…

Have you ever found yourself pining for the good old days when machines–from coffee makers to cars–were less complicated, when you could take something apart, repair, and reassemble it without…

The more we get to know 3D printing, the more we realize that we don’t know all that much about it. In all fairness, that’s because new 3D printers–from basic…

If you’re an athlete who spends much time on your feet, then you’ve probably been concerned at one time or another–or in an ongoing way–about the stress to your ankles…

If you find drafting a résumé an impossibly arduous task, then imagine producing one in stone. While Mr. Deep Immersion, surely a candidate for some kind of Maker of the…

From a dark, uncharted corner of the maker universe where fantastic monsters, wizards, and fierce foes with mighty weapons meet in towering stacks of collectible cards or tables full of…

Andy de Bruin of Zeeland, Netherlands is a mostly self-taught graphic artist who found a way to combine his passions for 3D modeling and printing with his love of role-playing…

The idea for creating a 3D printed smartwatch case to house the miraculous and minuscule Intel® Edison emerged when Seattle, Washington-area tech expert Tyler Gibson attended a Hackathon and was musing…

File this latest contribution to Instructables on the list of 3D printed objects that were realized not necessarily because there was a specific, critical need but because yet another material was…