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RIT Student Combines HoloLens Glasses with HTC Vive System to Make New Shared Reality App

Whether you’re reaching out and grabbing items in a game using the Dexma Exoskeleton, or taking an up close and personal look at the human brain, what’s not to love about…

Newcastle University Researchers Release RMADS Source Code for 3D Printing Selection Software

It would seem that the sharing of information such as invaluable, helpful code was once only done between software engineers and programmers working together on crucial projects or together in…

Express Yourself! Create Images & Light Them Up with the MagicShifter 3000 POV Stick

“Made with love and fairy dust.” The persistence of vision stick offers exactly what its name would infer, but it doesn’t really make sense until you see it in action,…

3D Printed Sculpture Showcases the Detrimental Nature of San Francisco’s Rising Housing Prices

While the Bay Area’s continuously growing tech bubble has led to a plethora of innovations for both San Francisco and the rest of the world, this boom has also caused…

Matt Adareth’s 3D Printed Dactyl Keyboard is Colorful, Ergonomic, and Funky

I have to admit that when I saw the words “dactyl keyboard,” I had no idea what this means. But you would think as one who writes both for a paid job…

Kame the Hopping 3D Printable Robot is the Cutest Thing You’ll See All Day

While there had been industrial 3D printers available years before desktop printers started to become popular, it wasn’t an especially widely used or known technology. But when the first RepRap…

Stopping While They Are Ahead? RepRapPro Ltd. to Close Doors & Cease Trading as of January 15th

Few will be happy to see RepRapPro go. With a host of rock ‘n roll quotes that could no doubt be applied here, we’ll just say that everyone appreciates a…

Orbbec Releases Open Source SDK to GitHub for Their Astra 3D Camera Technology

When Orbbec was founded back in 2013 their goal was to develop intelligent computer-driven 3D cameras capable of reacting to their environment, and their users specific needs using gesture controls….

Ultimaker Releases Open Source Files for Ultimaker 2 Go and Extended

To open source or not to open source is a question that most 3D printer manufacturers are going to ask themselves at some point. I’ve heard compelling arguments both for…

Shapeways Helping to Keep 3D Technology Open, the Web Neutral

Shapeways recently joined forces with some major established and up-and-coming players in the world of web commerce, open share and source, streaming and more to confront the threat to internet…

OpenBionics Affordable Bionic Hand is Selected as a Hackaday Prize Semifinalist

For this year’s Hackaday Prize prospective entrants were challenged to develop a project or idea that would help solve the problems that matter to everyone. While that may be a…

Here’s a 3D Printable Palm-Fitted Keyboard for Your Texting Addiction

Where do I get started on the topic of texting? I have been a writer for decades, relishing the refinement of my own language, as I grow increasingly confident putting…

Made in Gaza: Glia Project Offers Open Source, Low-Cost, Locally 3D Printed Medical Supplies

Last month, we covered news of Dr. Tarek Loubani’s Glia Project, which seeks to bring 3D printed medical equipment to the areas that need it most–starting with the much-beleaguered Gaza…

Your Luggage is Unsafe! TSA Approved Master-Keyed Locks Have Been 3D Printed & Shared Publicly

The stated goal of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is, in their own words, to “Protect the nation’s transportation systems to ensure freedom of movement for people and commerce.”. Essentially,…

3D Printed MrRobot Gives You Voice, Touch & Shake Control of Open Source Rapiro Robot

Previously, it would have been hard imagining devices like the topic of this article–useful products being printed layer by layer, brought into existence at the desktop, and controlled wirelessly by…

3D Printers Online Store Launches the xi3 Prusa

3D Printers Online Store has recently launched the xi3 Prusa, and the printer has a long and varied history of development. Josef Prusa was never satisfied with the status quo….

Doctor in Gaza Strip Creates World Class 3D Printed Stethoscope for Just $0.30

While health care, insurance, and skyrocketing costs are a red hot topic in the U.S., we certainly expect that when we walk into an emergency room, medical tools will abound….

Keysforge: Easy, Automatic Production of 3D Printed Copies of High-Security Keys

While retinal and other biometric scanners are coming into play for some high-security applications, there’s still some ways to go before those are reliable enough for more common use–and so…

Low-Cost 3D Circuit Printing Kit from Texas Student Team Hits Kickstarter

Blesson Mathew, Abel Netsereab, Hien Tuong, Jean Leppez and Aby Thomas, a team of engineering students from the University of Texas Dallas, are currently working to create a fully functional 3D…

BEEVERYCREATIVE Rolls Out the Latest Version of BEESOFT 3D Printer Software

BEESOFT is the 3D printing software package from BEEVERYCREATIVE, a company known for their sleek, easy to use BEETHEFIRST device and its ecosystem of related products. And now there’s a major update…

Maker Shows Us How to Build Our Own E-Waste 3D Printer Using Trashed Technology

As many of us pound out blogs, emails, and various communications on the keys of our electronics, many of them laptops or PCs with double and sometimes even triple monitors,…

3DPrinterOS Goes Open Source for Their Cloud Client

3DPrinterOS is an operating system available for 3D printing. The service allows users to manage, edit, fix, slice, share, and print objects from any web-enabled device, and since it was…

Carnegie Mellon University Student Designs 3D Printed Crab Robot

We frequently report on developments in the field of robotics when they involve 3D printing. The latest and, arguably, one of the more unique projects comes from Carnegie Mellon University…

exiii Releases Design Files for Amazing 3D Printed HACKberry Bionic Hand

Back in March, we did a story on a Japanese company called exiii, which had come up with quite the amazing new 3D printed myoelectric bionic hand that was controlled…