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USF Engineering Student 3D Prints RC Car with Arduino Microcontroller
Nothing says holidays like the sound of a remote-controlled toy vehicle whirring around the house. Very popular with both car and electronics enthusiasts, the RC car can be controlled by…
Watch Out For The 3D Printed Desktop Flesh Eating Plant From Mario Bros.
If you already have the words Eudicots Rosids Eurosids Oxalidales Cephalotaceae tattooed somewhere on your body, first let me congratulate you on your mastery of Latin and second, let me…
OSU Student Reinvents The Wheel: Robotic 3D printed transforming wheel
Carter Hurd has been building robots since he was in middle school. His experience and passion for tinkering with and building out complete electronic devices has only grown, and he…
Instructables Designer Creates “Blinds’ Eye,” A Machine that Automatically Closes Blinds
If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, surely sloth — or, perhaps, forgetfulness — is the runner-up. Designer and maker, Drew Morgan (his Instructables handle is “DrewTM”), shared his…
3D Printed Water Quality Testing Device Offers Affordability and Portability to Test Potability
The issue of a plentiful water supply is as old as the origins of man. Water represents the cycle of life, and we are in a perpetual ongoing exercise worldwide…
South African Students Develop Mobile, Self-replicating, 3D Printer Meant for Space Exploration
3D printing in outer space has become quite the fad as of late. This is mostly due to the fact that NASA and Made in Space recently sent a zero-g…
CGTrader Presents Marketplace Tips and Ideas (InfoGraph) for Ambitious 3D Designers
Take heed, 3D designers — competition in your marketplace is heating up! CGTrader wants to light a fire in you for developing the best strategy in selling your 3D designs. They have some…
Dutch Company VormVrij 3D Uses Clay to 3D Print Huge Ceramic Pieces
We’ve seen a lot of material innovations in 3D printing lately, from better plastics to wood to metals; the latest to pop out at us is clay. Dutch company VormVrij…
3D Printing and DIY Electronics Bring Mario Bros. Clouds to a Wearable Piece of Jewelry
One of my favorite games as a kid was Mario Brothers (and Super Mario Brothers Dr. Mario and pretty much anything else with Princess Peach, some Goombas, and Yoshi that…
Man Designs and 3D Prints an Incredible Robotic Parrot That Moves Like a Real Bird
We’ve seen it before, and we will certainly see it again. Robotics and 3D printing continue to converge on many different levels. Whether it is the robotic movements of 3D…
Instructables Designer Builds 3D Printed ‘Walkerbot’ Featuring Arduino Software and 4 Pencil Legs
Robots and science fiction fantasy have gone hand in hand throughout the years, with most of our connections to robots coming from a classic movie or TV show. An aspiration of man…
Arduino + Car = Carduino. 3D Printed RC Car That Can Be Customized, Printed, & Controlled via a Smartphone
Remote controlled (RC) cars hold a place in the hearts of so many. Just as we’ve seen through resurgences of Tang, My Little Pony, and even the Backstreet Boys and New…
3D Printing a Single Pixel Camera
When today’s digital cameras regularly boast a capacity of 20 megapixels or more, it may seem strange that anyone would spend anytime developing a camera with one single, solitary pixel…
3D Printed Autodialing Device Can Crack Open Safes
The safecracking business may never be the same thanks to Australian security pros and 3D printing masterminds Luke Janke and Jay Davis. Thank goodness they are the good guys. Safecracking has…
Maker Group Builds a 3D Printed Quad-Motor Drone
Expect drone spottings to increase as the DIY drone makes its way to the home workbench, albeit the tech-savvy one. One group of makers has designed what they call a…
Miroculus Technology Brings 3D Printing to the Molecular Level With One-Step Cancer Diagnosis Device
With the uses of 3D printing abounding, there seems to be a shift on every level, including a molecular one. Miroculus, a startup composed of worldwide researchers and developers, has…
James Parr Triumphs in Design and Space Exploration with the 3D Printed Automated Robot Observatory, Ultrascope
“Design…now this could take me to the stars.” – James Parr There’s nothing more inspiring than kids who know what they are meant to do, shedding the normal heroic career…
3DRacers Brings the Racetrack to Your Living Room Floor With 3D Printed Cars and Game
Under your bed and over the hills–of your couch cushions–it’s off to the track in your home with 3DRacers! Rome-based 3DRacers was created by Marco D’Alia and Francesco Murru, gaming and toy enthusiasts who…
Israeli Engineer 3D Prints Versatile Hexapod Robot named ‘Billy’
It’s really amazing how creative people are getting in combining the near infinite manufacturing capabilities that 3D printing has to offer with the DIY open-source physical computing platform, Arduino, which…
The Jewelry of Everything: 3D Printed MOCCI Line Inspired by High-Tech World
“MOCCI (mō-chē) transcends the idea of jewelry; it is a brand for the 21st century.” Jewelry makers these days are a lot different–especially MOCCI, a Los-Angeles based jewelry designing company…
3D Printing, Arduino, and Role-Playing Games Create Magic in SpellTag
A band of role-play gamers and makers have combined forces (for the good) to take fantasy role play to the next dimension. David Ultis, self-proclaimed “Captain, commander, and sage visionary”…
YouBionic – 3D Printed Bionic Arduino Controlled Prosthetic Hand is Coming Soon
Over and over again, we are reporting on incredible stories of 3D printed prosthetic hands. There have been dozens of people with birth defects, as well as many more amputees,…
BuildersBot: Files & Instructions Released for DIY 3D Printer / CNC Combo Machine
The 3D printing community is filled with DIY’ers (Do It Yourself’ers), who are fascinated with building 3D printers basically from scratch. The RepRap movement is one that has really caught…
X.Pose 3D Printed Wearable Sculpture Reveals Person’s Skin Based on Data
Americans are obsessed with privacy, or at least we think we are. In fact, paradoxical privacy laws make it truly difficult sometimes for you to even access your own information,…
