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Florida Maker Designs Easy-Access 3D-Printed Tool WristBand
You may not find a bigger fan of 3D design and printing than Floridian Fernando Sosa. The Orlando-based designer and entrepreneur seems to wear multiple hats (we wonder if they’re…
Instructables Integrates ‘Print with 3D Hubs’ Button on Their Site & Launches Contest With 3D Hubs
If you have ever taken part in a do-it-yourself project, then you more than likely have stumbled upon Instructables before. The Autodesk-owned DIY hub was launched back in 2005, and…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — March 28, 2015
This week’s stories we didn’t cover include several creative projects, including 3D printed zoetropes, a slide scanner to preserve old photos, a chair made by over 70 makers, and a printable katamari. Also,…
Automatic 3D Printed Tea Maker Brews a Nice Cup With Arduino-Assisted Precision
There’s something almost infectious about the DIY spirit. Once you’ve succumbed, every project seems at least vaguely manageable, every task however mundane considered in terms of how it could be…
Convert Your Front Door Lock to an NFC System Using a Qduino Mini
Quin Etnyre, who goes by Qtechknow, is a 14-year-old maker and electronics enthusiast who claims as major interests Arduino, 3D printing, and embedded electronics among other things. He has now designed…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — March 21, 2015
This week’s news we didn’t cover kicks off with a topic that so many printing enthusiasts love: printable figures inspired by artistic characters. We have printable robot files included with a…
3D Print Molds for Candles Made with Colorful Crayons
In between projects, one MIT engineering student — Lily Marie Jackson, known as “MITInventorbot” on Instructables — decided to go crafty with her 3D printer. A self-professed “passionate inventor,” this maker’s…
The 3D Printed Pixel Collider Is One Thing While Being Another
Sebastian Morales Prado is a mechanical engineer in Chicago who, as he says, works to merge science and art. A graduate of the Illinois Institute of Technology, Morales now works…
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…
Turkish Professor 3D Prints a Realistic Dummy Security Camera Setup
Dr. Özkal Özsoy is an electronics engineer, product design consultant, and inventor based in Istanbul, Turkey. In his free time, he enjoys working with consumer electronics and toys sector. He’s a…
3D Printed Spock Ears Dress Up Your Earmuffs in Tribute to Leonard Nimoy
As tributes go, this 3D-printed homage to the world’s most beloved half-human, half-Vulcan, Mr. Spock, is pretty easy to undertake: Follow the step-by-step instructions for 3D modeling and printing your…
Want an Enormous 3D Printer? Aldric Negrier is There for You with the Mega Prusa i3
Aldric Negrier, a maker and builder in Portugal, has just built – and provided you the information you’ll need to build yourself – a Prusa-based 3D printer with a build…
3D Print Portal’s GlaDOS as a Robotic Lamp
If you are a fan of the video game Portal, then you know who GlaDOS is. She’s a robotic game character, resembling a bound and gagged woman, who is considered…
Clinton Freeman Offers Advice and Info on 3D Printing Filament and Moisture Damage
Clinton Freeman of RepRage has some excellent advice for storing 3D printer PLA filament to avoid moisture problems. Freeman is a Senior Software Engineer at NICTA in Brisbane Area, Australia, and he…
Be Your Own 3D Printer — Make 3D Models with Glue and Layered Paper Cutouts via Instructables
Sometimes 3D models seems to be produced by some parts magic, some parts technology, with a big dollop of arts and crafts at the finish line. Designers involved in the process often tend…
3D Printed Nurse Call Button Lets Disabled Patients Easily Summon Help
UK maker John Dingley saw a need and wasted no time applying his 3D design and printing know-how to meet it. A professed DIYer and ardent fan of all things…
Build Your Own 3D Printer from Lego Blocks & EV3 Servo Motors
Everyone has to start somewhere, they say — and that’s especially true for those in the maker movement. Every maker remembers his or her first build as a monumental achievement,…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — February 21
This week’s stories we didn’t cover involve lots of talk about size. From the largesse of CyBe’s printed concrete walls and potential houses and Oakland-based Emerging Objects’ planned unveiling of…
Waste Not, Want Not: Bracelets & Rings Using Leftover 3D Printer Filament
As an artist, I know that there is something sad about the little leftover scraps of the material that was a precious part of the process of creation. I have…
3D Printing with Hummus — New Extrusion Process and Basic Culinary Know-How
Everyone’s favorite go-to party dip is now a 3D printing medium thanks to our friends at 3DigitalCooks (3DC), who recently introduced us to 3D printing with bananas. 3DC is a website that…
DIYer Designs and 3D Prints Low-Cost Prosthetic “Galileo Hand”
On Instructables a man named Ali Lemus applied his DIY and 3D printing know-how to creating an affordable prosthetic hand and then shared his process and downloadable .stl files at no cost,…
Hit the Pavement with Your Own Two-Wheeled, 3D Printed Skates
One young 3D designer and printer took matters into his own hands when he saw “Big Hero 6” and was blown away by the cool but probably impossible-to-navigate one-wheeled skates…
1950s Philco Predicta TV Gets a 3D Printed Update and a Better Picture
Retro electronics are great but you often sacrifice quality for aesthetics. When Instructables and Thingiverse contributor Jesse Demers, aka “piratetv/piratetv1,” set his sights on a Philco Predicta, possibly the coolest…
DIY 3D Printed Traction Spikes Convert Any Shoes into Winter-Friendly Footgear
As the Central States and the Northeastearn United States continue to be blanketed with snow and ice, there was never a more pressing time — and need — for implementing…
