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This Is Your Brain On 3D Printing
If you’ve been through the experience of having a complete MRI brain scan, and you’re not squeamish about such things, you might be interested in building a scale model 3D…
Using Shapeways to 3D Print a Tiny, Fuel Free Microwave EMDrive Thruster?
You want to believe. You want to believe that a prototype propulsion engine has been built which generates thrust by bouncing microwaves around inside an enclosed metal funnel which produces…
The 3D Printed Wheelchair Hand Drive Is an Elegant Solution to an Expensive Problem
Rapid prototyping and 3D printing have opened the world of product development to a community beyond professional engineers and designers to include a range of smart people with helpful, if…
Use Your 3D Printer to Color by Number with This Clever Project
Kurt Hamel is an engineer, builder, maker, hacker and “mad scientist” from Providence, RI, who uses his skills at 3D printing to create some useful and interesting objects and techniques….
3D Printed, Automated Medication Dispenser Provides Patients & Caregivers Peace of Mind
Thanks to 3D printing some radical changes in contemporary health care are taking place. From enabling life-changing technologies like bioprinting to making day-to-day health maintenance easier than ever, 3D printing…
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,…
Young Maker Advances from a Garage-Built Fusion Reactor to a 3D Printed Multispectral Imager
Conrad Farnsworth grew up in small town in Wyoming, and a loss at science fair spurred his desire to take on a whole range of science-oriented projects. He calls himself…
It’s a Technology Orchestra! — Watch as a 3D Printer Performs Among Hard Drives & Floppy Drives
We’ve all seen the various musical compositions created using solely the sounds emitted by the extruders and stepper motors on 3D printers, but this recent project by a man named…
Skateboarder Creates 3D Printed Braking System for Onda Longboard
If you are an avid skateboarder or if you know one well, then you are familiar with the bruises, scars, and stories that go along with this daring hobby. Well-loved…
3D Printed Solar UAV to Function as Bush Plane for Spotting Poachers in Africa
The unmanned aerial vehicle is one of an autonomous nature, so it’s only fitting that it should be produced through a technology that allows its creator great autonomy as well–in…
Hackaday Prize Contest Entrant Developing 3D Printed “Eye of Horus” Eye Tracking Device
Hackaday, the website and global online community of hackers that features stories on hacks and original material, launched its annual Hackaday Prize competition back in early March. Since then, they’ve…
Biohand: An Inexpensive 3D Printed Open Source Prosthetic
Martin Vincent Bloedorn is a Brazilian CAD enthusiast who says he enjoys learning languages from C++ to Japanese, “fiddling on my 3D printer,” and playing the drums. This project from…
German Hardware Hacker Creates Kinect-Based Portable 3D Scanner
Mario Lukas is a German maker, hardware hacker, and tinkerer, and he decided he wanted to build a low-cost, mobile, Raspberry Pi2- and Kinect-based 3D scanner. Kinect is essentially a…
3D Printing Helps in Creation of Eye-Movement Controlled Wheelchair For The Paralyzed
Almost three years ago my mother passed away after over a twenty five year long battle with Multiple Sclerosis — a disease that left her mostly paralyzed. Although paralyzed in two legs…
EasyWelder Tool Allows You to Make More & Waste Less, Linking 3D Printing Filament Pieces
EasyWelder is, quite simply, an exceptional idea for making larger 3D prints and other projects without wasting extra filament, as well as being able to fulfill other functions. By being…
DIY Shooting Range, Robo-Target, Uses 3D Printed Parts
If we rated 3D printing projects like the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) rates films, this project would definitely be rated NC-21. Yes, we’ve adjusted the “No Children” rating…
Michigan Man 3D Prints a 4-Foot-Tall Dome Clock and It’s Incredible
As the clock is about to take another evolutionary step towards the future come next month when the Apple Watch is officially released, one man by the name of Jason…
Tim Giles Builds a 3D Printed Robotic Third Hand
Tim Giles is a maker and engineer who lives in Rochester, New York, and he’s created a series of instructions and some code to help you 3D print and build…
Are Induction-Heated Nozzles the Wave of the Future for Greater Speed in 3D Printing?
Most of us are well aware that one of the biggest issues in 3D printing, especially on the desktop, is speed. This is a fairly mainstream perception, which was demonstrated…
OpenBionics’ Open Source Robotic Prosthetic Hand can Execute 144 Different Grasps & Costs Under $200
One of the biggest areas in which 3D printing is making its largest impact, is within the field of prostheses. Whether it is prosthetic leg sockets, custom prosthetic hands and arms,…
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…
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…
Experimental IcePick Delta 3D Printer Built without Linear Rods or Bearings
The 3D printing community is one that is based on innovation and creativity, operating in the reverse of big business and traditional manufacturing in that most involved have an agenda…
3D Printed Components Make Raman Spectroscopy More Widely Available
Hackers, designers, and engineers have a positive outlet in the Hackaday Prize Competition, a hardware design competition acknowledging the benefits of free and open sharing of intuitive and useful technology. …
