design contest
Take Our Summer 3D Printing Design Courses and Enter Our Design Contest!
Our summer courses are just a couple of months away and we are excited that attendees of our Advanced Design for 3D Printing crash course get to have their…
RESHAPE 17: Programmable Skins Competition Kicks Off With Partners IN(3D)USTRY and Noumena Studio
Online digital platform RESHAPE promotes the design, research, and production of digital ideas, and represents a large international community of makers, designers, and customers who are inspired by innovation and…
Win a Form 2 3D Printer in Pinshape’s First Mechanical 3D Design Challenge
It’s been a few months since the last Pinshape design contest we talked about, but the wait is over! The popular online marketplace for 3D printable models is announcing a new contest,…
Sharpen Your 3D Printing, Robotics, and Other Hacking Skills: The 2017 Hackaday Prize Challenge is Underway
We love Hackaday – the site has provided us with tons of cool projects that we’ve had a great time highlighting, from a coffee-maker-turned-3D-printer to a 3D printed pressure regulator for…
Winners of Make to Care Design Challenge Announced at Maker Faire Rome
We cover many design challenges at 3DPrint.com, but my favorites are those that challenge participants to invent devices that improve the day-to-day lives of people with disabilities. Sometimes, those competitions…
Instructables’ and Shapeways’ New Drone Contest is Giving Away iPads, GoPros and Bionic Birds. Oh My.
Online educational maker project repository Instructables is teaming up with 3D printing service provider Shapeways for yet another design contest. This time around Instructables users are being asked to create…
RZR MKR 3D Design Competition from Gillette, 3D Hubs and MakersCAFE — Design a 3D Printed Razor Handle
It’s sometimes easy to overlook the hours of design work that have gone into the objects we use everyday. There’s a great deal more to a shaving razor, for example,…
NASA Design Challenge: Create a Logo for the In-Space Manufacturing Project
How’s this for bragging rights, graphic designers and artists? “Oh yes…I designed a logo for NASA.” Start practicing your casual hair flip and bored tone now, because NASA is, in…
A Simple 3D Printed Rabbit Charm is the Winner of the M3D & 3DShare 3D Design Competition
Back in May, we announced the launch of a new 3D design contest that was being held by 3D printer manufacturer M3D and 3D printing repository 3DShare, in conjunction with ourselves…
M3D Teams with 3DShare for Unique 3D Printing Design Competition – Giving Away The Micro 3D Printer
Just over a year ago M3D’s ‘The Micro 3D Printer’ was launched. It was touted as “The First Truly Consumer 3D Printer” and what a success it was, raising more than $3.4 million…
Modular, Flexible, 3D Printed ‘BendyBag’ is the Winner of the NinjaFlex / 3DShare Design Contest
One of the great things about the ever expanding list of 3D printable materials available, is that we are constantly seeing more and more ways in which we can utilize…
New Design A Day 3D Printed Smartphone Case Challenge Has Begun!
I remember when it was a big deal to have a mobile phone. Then more and more people started getting cell phones, as I stubbornly looked at my land line,…
Dremel Teams With Instructables For 3D Printing Design Contest With $4,600 in Prizes
You know a technology is beginning to inch its way into the mainstream when large corporations begin adopting it in some form or another. There are already hundreds of large…
Proto-Pasta Plans to Release a New Exotic 3D Printer Filament: Design their limited edition spool!
A hip group of Vancouver, Washington makers and tinkerers, Proto-pasta, has launched a contest for budding or professional designers. The contest precedes Proto-pasta’s release of a new 3D printer filament,…
Shapeways & Occipital Design Challenge: iPhone 6 & 6 Plus Phone Case Bracket for Structure Sensor
As 3D printing becomes ever more ubiquitous, the associated technology will be ever more at our fingertips. And what could be more at your fingertips than your own smartphone? Most…
Steam Powered 3D Printer Wins BlenderNation’s ‘The Industrial Revolution’ Design Contest
Over 250 years ago a turning point began to take hold on the planet. The Industrial Revolution brought an entirely new way of life to a large portion of individuals on Earth. Particularly…
Students Can Now Design Space Tools to be 3D Printed And Used in Outer Space
With the launch of Space X, a 3D printer has been sent to the International Space Station for the fabrication of various objects in outer space. When the 3D printer,…
3DPRINTforAid Launches 3D Printing Design Contest to Help The Needy
We have all seen some pretty amazing competitions emerge, centered around 3D printing. Whether it be a simple contest to design a gift for Mother’s Day, or as Local Motors…
NASA Teams With Makerbot to Launch ‘Mars Base Challenge’ 3D Printing Contest
Mars, the red planet that NASA hopes to send astronauts to, within the next couple of decades, provides the space agency a laundry list of challenges. Besides the difficulties that…
