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Make Your Own 3D Printing Pen from a Hot Glue Gun, a CD Drive Motor & Lots of Duct Tape
A couple of years ago, WobbleWorks LLC raised $2.3 million in crowdfunding and sold more than 130,000 of their 3Doodler 3D printing pens. It’s basically a “pen” that allows users to…
3D Printing: The Stories We Didn’t Cover This Week — January 31
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and it’s best you start thinking about what you will give to that special someone this year. This week’s 3D printing news provides some…
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…
3D Printed Lighting Installation Evokes the Ocean in California Home
A new, ultra-contemporary home in Bolinas, California proudly showcases the extraordinary capacity of 3D printing to quite literally transform the way we live. In an ambitious 3D design and printing…
Gold Touch Inc. Shows us How to Coat Our 3D Prints in Chrome
While the technology of 3D printing is used for a variety of very serious applications from helping with providing prostheses for children in developing countries to the distinct possibility of…
3D Print Your Own Portable Counterfeit Currency Detector
For those of you who are still paying with cash or, more importantly, taking cash payments, an Instructables contributor, Carmelito Andrade, shared instructions and STL files for 3D printing your own…
Amateur Designer Uses K’NEX Kit to Create a Cheap 3D Printing Filament Spool Holder
Back in 1992, Joel Glickman invented a construction toy system he called K’NEX, and it’s roughly like, and in direct market competition, with Lego, Tinkertoys, and Meccano. A lot like…
The Swarmscapers: Students Create 3D Printing Robots Capable of Building in Outlying Areas
Imagine a reality of 3D printing robots, in a community unto themselves, diligently working in unpredictable temperatures and conditions, strong and steady — just taking care of business. Efficiently. Perfectly….
Incredible 3D Printed Blooming Zoetropes Sculptures
Nature is filled with numbers — or possibly numbers are filled with nature. Either way, artists have been exploring the relationships between numerical form and physical form for as long…
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…
3D Printed Tree Fractals Featured in Microscape Project
If you are going for a walk in the woods, you may be mesmerized by the variety of sensory experiences available to you. The natural diversity represented on that walk…
Missing SodaStream Bottle Cap Problem Solved by 3D Printing
Back in the day, before 3D printers were around, a popular pastime was to hang out at the soda shop — especially in the 1950s. This was a big part…
3D Print and Customize This Great, Retro-Looking, Foldable Nightlight
There’s something extra clever about making something appear low-tech when using high-tech tools. Here’s a 3D printed nightlight that hints at origami origins and maker inclinations from a first-time Instructables…
A 3D Printed H Quadcopter You Control with Your Android Phone
So, you got a 3D printer for Christmas and now you’re ready to put your new toy through the rigors? Instructables contributor and aspiring avionics student Timothy, who goes by…
3D Printed Combination Lock Lets You See Exactly How it Works
One of the many benefits of 3D printing is that it has basically unlimited applications in the realm of education. While instructive models are certainly not new, 3D printing makes…
USF Engineering Student 3D Prints RC Car with Arduino Microcontroller
Nothing says holidays like the sound of a remote-controlled toy vehicle whirring around the house. Very popular with both car and electronics enthusiasts, the RC car can be controlled by…
3D Print Your Own Custom-Fitted Rollerblades
Chicago-based Instructables user and maker Patrick S, who goes by the username Mizchief100 (we’ll refer to him as “Mizchief” henceforward), decided to combine his passion for rollerblading with his 3D…
Students Design Sky 3D Printer Featuring Cable Suspension and Vertical Design for Remote Use
And the evolution of the 3D printer continues… Imagine 3D printing on an even larger scale — in more remote areas. As the words 3D printing and sustainability keep popping…
To Exterminate — or to Make? 3D Print Your Own Dalek
Update – 12/25/2014 We were just notified by Edward Felix that he is the original designer of the Dalek. Such designs may be found here and here, which Instructables user, snufikino, looks…
‘Space Weaver’ — 3D Weaving Machine Invented by California College of Art Students
One of the pivotal catalysts of the industrial revolution was the automation of textile manufacturing. Power looms in weaving sheds plus cotton and cheap labor equaled widespread availability and variety…
3D Printed Muscles Bring a Robotic Flower to Bloom
Before you get too excited, let me tell you that this is not an article about how to create yourself as a young Arnold Schwarzenegger through 3D printing… for now,…
Designer 3D Prints a Raspberry Pi Radio
If you have some extra time and the proper DIY spirit — and considerable tech know-how or a willingness to undertake a crash course — then Instructables maker Univership has a project…
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…
Instructables User 3D Prints a Biplane Without a 3D Printer… Huh?
I’ve heard people refer to 3D printing as ‘automated hot glue gunning.’ Basically if you think about it, they are somewhat right when referring to FFF/FDM 3D printers like the…
