3d printed toys
3D Print These Monsters Now! Save Quin & Her Team, Fight for Planet Earth
As crisp October looms around the corner and Christmas trees are already on display in department stores, this year it’s our duty not only to come up with yet another…
Dutch Designer and Cubify Make 3D Printing Fun and Accessible Even For Young Children
3D printing is finding its way gradually into school curricula, in part because, more than ever before, 3D printers are becoming affordable even for schools with limited budgets. It probably…
Disney Magic Creates Varying Elasticity within Single 3D Printed Objects
Disney Research, not surprisingly, is bringing their latest project home with some new 3D printed materials that are unlike anything we’ve ever seen, even perhaps bordering on–dare we say it?–the…
3D Printed Gyroman Resurrects Unique Toy Design From the Early 80’s — New Details
In 1981, Dr. John Jameson created a unique walking toy which made use of a metal flywheel and pivoting legs. That combination created forward motion, and the design won him…
Thingiversity Math Challenge: Design a 3D Printable Beach Mold, Win a MakerBot Replicator
Building sandcastles has developed into quite an art form compared to when most of us were young children using plastic pails and digging out foamy saltwater moats to make rudimentary…
3D Printed Romanian Bucegi Truck Models from the 1960’s — Indiegogo Campaign Launches
The very newest technology can often also be the key to preserving much of our older history and technology–in many ways–from archiving and curating in museums to rebuilding and re-creating…
Vintage Dune Buggy Gets 3D Printing and Remote Control Update
Rick Winscot of Pennsylvania, a maker to the last molecule, describes himself as having “code in brain, soldering iron in hand…” His interests are pretty vast, encompassing family, tinkering, electronics, remote…
The Biker-less Mountain Bike: Stop Motion Video Captures Miniature 3D Printed Bike on a Journey
What do you get when you take a talented 3D modeler, and combine it with someone who has a knack for mountain biking and video production? It is very possible…
Meet Buggy the Walking 3D Printed Robot
When I was a kid, well after my grandfather had retired, his workshop was like a veritable candyland for me. It was full of machines and gizmos and tools of…
This 3D Printed Spirograph Allows You to Draw Fascinating Geometric Designs
Perhaps you had one as a kid, or perhaps you’ve seen them on TV commercials. Regardless of which it is, most of us who were born in the ’70s and…
This Week’s Top 3D Printable 3DShare Models: An “Anatomically Correct” Female Part & More
This week’s top 3D printable 3DShare models include a few surprises. For one, we have an anatomically correct vagina that can be used in anatomy lessons (what else would you use it…
Part Yo-Yo, Part Drone, This 3D Printed Toy Is Very Impressive
I was one of those kids who, when Marchon came out with the Yo-Yo Ball in 1992, was pretty excited for the “auto-return technology” for these round toys that could…
QalamSila Launches Kickstarter to Fund Mobile App for 3D Printed Toy Kit
The team at QalamSila–creator Guillaume Crédoz, Nicolas Reeves, Roy Massaad, Chady Karlitch, and Ragheed Abi Hassan–say QalamSila 2.0 will be a mobile-device-enabled 3D construction app aimed at letting creative users…
FabZat to Accelerate In-App Merchandising & 3D Printing for Video Game Brands Via $800,000 in Series A Funding
The toy and gaming market, traditionally known as a difficult multi-billion dollar industry to break into, is seeing some transformation as new companies are creating different ways to create revenue–and…
The 3D Printed Shock-Absorbing Crawly Ball is Unlike Anything You’ve Seen Before
Did you ever step back and think about who invented your favorite childhood toys? You know, things like the Rubik’s Cube, hula hoop, Etch-A-Sketch and NERF balls. These individuals or…
MOYUPI Hits Kickstarter– Turn Your Child’s Drawings Into Safe 3D Printed Toys
Whether your child is a year old or pushing adulthood, 3D printing is able to offer them tools for learning and development that we could have only dreamt of when…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — June 13, 2015
This week’s stories we missed may produce a heavy sigh for those wondering how they can merge all of their favorite pastimes — eating potato chips, building with Legos, controlling a 3D printed robot…
Planes, Cranes & Automobiles: Maker Studio Construction Sets Inspire & Teach Budding 3D Printing Enthusiasts
For all the kids and families who love hearty mac-n-cheese or sharing popcorn at a movie, now communing around the dinner table or finishing a snack, and then heading to…
Meet Braq: The Amazing Fully Articulated 3D Printed Dragon
bq is a company founded in 2009, and since then they have become quite successful as a producer of tablets, smartphones, e-readers, and 3D printers. In fact, the company, which…
3D Printed ShapeSHARK™ Cuts and Colors at the Same Time
The world of children’s art instruments seems timeless: there’s the round tip scissors, crayons, markers, colored pencils, glue bottles and sticks, and endless stacks of construction paper. What if I were to tell…
Top 3D Printable 3DShare Models This Week — Keeping the “Fun” in Functional
Each week we review the top models from 3D Share’s website that allows people to upload and download models from the 3D file marketplace. Recent past weeks’ reviews of 3D…
Kickstarter: Wood Wars 3D Engages All Ages in a Pastoral 3D Printed Game of Strategy, War & Marble Artillery
3D printing has offered an incredible boon to gamers of all sorts, and very much so for those who enjoy the tabletop challenge. With the ability to design and manufacture…
This Fun 3D Printed Metal Executive Desk Toy Acts as a Business Metaphor
Diagrams are used within business, education, and construction to better depict what words can not. These useful sketched out tools have been used for millennia to get one’s point across…
#ToyLikeMe Campaign Drives the Creation of Dolls with Disabilities Line of Makies Dolls
Almost a year ago, I wrote a story for 3Dprint.com about The Makies a line of 3D printed, personalizable dolls. The dolls, which were first introduced in 2012, captured the…