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Project3DPrint Kits: Make Your Own 3D Printed Gadgets With One-Stop Shopping

Pulling together the necessary materials for a 3D printing project can be time consuming. Often you’re ordering electrical components from multiple sources online, heading to the hardware store, and digging…

3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — May 9, 2015

In this week’s stories we missed, while 3D printing gains a stronger foothold in the defense industry with the opening of an America Makes Satellite Center in El Paso, Texas,…

Basic Hack Helps You Keep Small Debris Out of Your 3D Printer

If you’ve been under the misguided impression that all DIY projects are complicated, Instructables contributor “DeStulp” has provided strong evidence to the contrary. This mysterious maker clearly agrees that the simplest…

Maker Creates a Multi-faceted Paper Lamp Using a 3D Printed Frame

One of the core promises of 3D printing has always been the idea that you can have virtually unchecked control over your environment, workspace, and home. The ability to customize…

Make Your Own 3D Printer Filament by Building Your Own Filament Extruder

Costs have certainly dropped over the years, but 3D printing could never be accused of being an inexpensive hobby. While the average price of a 3D printer is around one…

This 3D Printed Mechanical Keyboard Works Like a Charm

One day we will be able to 3D printed all sorts of already assembled electronics. That day may still be a decade away, but that doesn’t mean that we all…

It’s Called the Javalele: A 3D Printed Instrument Combines Coffee & Music

As anybody who has ever heard a ripping guitar solo knows, anything (including the air) can become an instrument. Instructables user John Granzow has gone one step further and made…

Swiss Engineer 3D Prints an Incredible Laser Projection Clock

Writing about 3D printing day in and day out I find myself always stumbling upon projects which really do show off the power that a 3D printer can place into…

How 3D Printing and FabLabs are Ushering in Changes Within the Brazilian Economy

What do you know about FabLabs? Do you know anything about the stage of 3D printing in the developing countries? South America’s giant, Brazil, is the world’s seventh-largest economy with a…

Cut Your Own Hair? Then This 3D Printed Neck Hair Trimmer is for You

The last time I went to the barber shop to get a haircut was when I was 16 years old. Now 33, I have been cutting my own hair over…

Dumpster-Diving DIYer Uses Salvaged Wi-Fi Router to Control His 3D Printer

When Floridian Matt Defenthaler bought a home 3D printer, he went with a kit rather than purchasing a fully assembled one. He ordered his Makerfarm i3v printer (I’m pretty sure…

Shoot Beer Not Bullets: 3D Printed Beer Shooter

Instructables Community Manager Mike (user name: mikeasaurus) has designed and released an edgier way to get your beer to your mouth all while keeping your hands from getting cold (or even…

Build Your Own Open-Source 3D Printed SmartWatch

One of our favorite pastimes is to compare emergent technology with the sometimes quaint but occasionally startlingly prescient predictions of technological inventions of the future. At the end of the…

Recycled Hard Drive Plus 3D Printing Equals Brilliantly Customized, Illuminated Computer Desk

With the onset of the New Year, getting organized is a goal for many. Listicle after listicle online gives us the top ten tips on how to make our lives…

FreeLSS Open Source 3D Printable Scanning System Powers DIY Scanners Like the ATLAS 3D

While the 3D printer has garnered an enormous amount of attention, performing new and heroic tasks on almost a daily basis, the 3D scanner has not historically received a proportionate…

World’s Largest 3D Printing Fab Lab Opens in Haifa, Israel at MadaTech National Museum

Wouldn’t you love the chance to go to an easily accessible public technology laboratory with 3D printers, scanners, laser cutters, PC workstations, and staff eager to introduce all of the…

A 3D Printed Water Cooler for Raspberry Pi

The idea of a water cooler for Raspberry Pi brought to mind some sort of sweet summery drink complete with paper umbrellas and a pounding headache the first time I…

Arc 3D Printer Concept Could Print Metal 10x Faster than the Best Available Technology Today

It’s incredible how many different methods of 3D printing have emerged since Chuck Hull’s invention of stereolithography (SLA) back in 1984. In additional to SLA, there is now direct metal…

DIYer 3D Prints and Wires a Programmable Home Thermostat

These days, we’re more inclined to ask, “Is there anything that can’t be 3D printed?” than we are to exclaim in astonishment at the latest 3D printing feat. From 3D printed…

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…

3D Printed Word Clock Tells Time Quite Differently

One thing that certainly differentiates human beings from other members of the animal kingdom is our near obsessive attention to artificial divisions of time. Marking the passage of time in…

Build Your Own 3D Printer at Home with 90 Weekly Installments from 3D Create & Print

3D printing has made it into the home office, the starving artist’s studio, and the teenage techie’s basement lab, but even the lower-priced 3D printers can still push the limits…

ATOM 3D Provides Instructables Tutorial to Make Low-cost, Simple, DIY, 3D Printer Extruder

ATOM 3D, an Egypt-based enterprise, is looking to make 3D printing accessible to all via open source platforms. Particularly targeted toward “Egypt and the Arabic region,” the project is geared…

Open Source Innovation Brings Foldable 3D Printer TeeBotMax

The world of open source collaboration is continuing to produce a stream of new ideas, all of which will continue to be improved upon, some of them useable now and some…