Scott J Grunewald

We all have that one difficult person on our holiday shopping list who either buys themselves everything that they need or they are impossible to please, making them really difficult to…

While I plan to have myself a very nerdy Christmas, you don’t have to bring video game or comic book characters into your holiday to give your decorations a unique…

It seems like I just got done wishing you a very nerdy Christmas, but it’s been a whole year already! But while the season may change, the one thing that…

The day after Thanksgiving, while most people are sleeping off turkey comas or fighting unruly crowds for deals on televisions, is what I call Christmas cookie day. Every Cookie Friday,…

I’ve been rearranging the books and collectables on the bookshelves in my living room this month and was looking for some way to keep some of my nicer books standing…

A few weeks ago I reorganized my office and ended up with a nice, unobstructed view out of my window and into the backyard. I noticed that we tended to…

This week I was looking for a cool toy to 3D print for my nephew and settled on looking for a fun robot action figure. I knew that there were…

There is nothing more annoying than trying to come up with a last-minute Halloween costume that doesn’t make you look like your costume is last minute. I’ve managed to come…

Is that a coat rack in the corner, or is there a murderous superhuman in a hockey mask about ready to gut you? Is that the flicker of a candle…

With things like peanut and other food allergies being so much more common than they used to be there are a lot of reasons to avoid giving out candy as…

Currently FDM technology still dominates the home and small business 3D printing industry, though in the last few years we’ve seen desktop stereolithography (SLA) and direct light projection (DLP) printers start…

About 11% of men and 7% of women will deal with kidney stones in their lifetime, and for many of these people they will be an ongoing health issue throughout…

It’s October, and you know what that means: department stores start setting up their Christmas decorations and we all brace ourselves of three months of terrible holiday music. But October…

One of my most popular Ten 3D Printable Things columns was my Model Car Kits column from a few months back, and I’ve gotten a ton of requests for more….

While many industries and businesses have been using 3D printing technology for years, it was usually a process reserved for prototyping or R&D departments. But over the last few years…

Graphene is more than 100 times stronger than the strongest steel, it is capable of conducting heat and electricity and it is virtually transparent. The number of applications for a…

There are a million and one uses for a 3D printer in the home. From decorations to utensils to toys, a 3D printer in the home can help you make…

The next generation of electronics are going to be more connected than ever before thanks to the development of inexpensive materials and the Internet of Things. Everything from our homes…

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, a 3D printer is a nerd’s best friend. You know that dream toy that you want more than you want oxygen…

On November 6th, 2015 an entrepreneur, hotel owner and American expat living in the Philippines named Lewis Yakich left the Penthouse Hotel where he was living with his girlfriend to…

This week Michigan-based industrial 3D printer manufacturer EnvisionTEC filed a lawsuit in a California federal court accusing MIT spinoff Formlabs of patent infringement. According to the lawsuit, Formlabs’ desktop Stereolithography…

When I was a kid, like any child from the ’80s, I played with a lot of action figures. Toys like Star Wars figures, GI Joe and Transformers were all things…

If you read this column regularly then my, let’s call it 3D printable lighting fixation, is probably well-known. And it is true, there has never been a 3D printable lamp…

Portland, Oregon-based animation studio Laika has made some of the most critically acclaimed stop motion animated films in the last few years. Their first film, Coraline, was one of the…