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Using Machine Vision to Automate Nozzle Alignment for Multitool 3D Printers
The term ‘hacking’ essentially means an attempt to exploit a system, computer or otherwise, often for illicit reasons. But, the less nefarious definition refers to a clever technique or tip…
CanAirIO: Air Quality Monitoring Democratized
What can be measured, can be improved. With air pollution being the world’s leading environmental health issue, with 91 percent of the world’s population living in places with air quality…
COVID-19 and 3D Printing: Go Open Source to Save Lives
As the COVID-19 pandemic reached the U.S., fears of ventilator shortages spread across states, who requested far higher numbers of the breathing machines than the national stockpile maintained. According to…
Fragaria Launches Karmen – Remote 3D Print Monitor
IT solutions supplier Fragaria, located in the Czech Republic, invests in developing its own products as much as it focuses on helping clients create prototyping solutions and development methodologies. Two…
Build Your Own 3D Printed Open Source Motorized Microscope
I always enjoy a good 3D printed DIY project, whether it’s truly helpful or just for fun. These projects are even cooler when you add Legos into the mix, like…
$50 Open-Source Colorimeter is Remarkable in Comparison to Commercial Models
Researchers from Michigan Technological University are applying chemistry to 3D printing, detailing their recent study in ‘Open-Source Colorimeter.’ A basic sensor, the colorimeter is made up of a simple light…
Adrian Bowyer Continues to Innovate with Magnetic Bed Heater
While his company, RepRap Ltd, provides open source, heavily-printable 3D printers, supplies and services online, Adrian Bowyer continues to invent and develop new ideas for open source 3D printing. The…
3D Printing and COVID-19, April 28, 2020 Update
Companies, organizations and individuals continue to attempt to lend support to the COVID-19 pandemic supply effort. We will be providing regular updates about these initiatives where necessary in an attempt to ensure…
Success in Education: Michigan Technological University Offers Comprehensive 3D Printing Technology Workshop to Teachers
Chelsea Schelly, Gerald Anzalone, Bas Wijnen, and Joshua M. Pearce, researchers from several different departments at Michigan Technological University, explore one of the most exciting aspects of digital fabrication in…
Dora Goodman: Build Your Own 3D Printed SCURA Panoramic Pinhole Camera
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and as someone who takes a lot of photos (on my phone), I definitely agree. But that doesn’t mean your camera…
Open Source Robotic Indoor Airship with 3D Printed Frame
3D printing is often used in the fabrication of airplane and spacecraft components, but many also turn to the technology to make smaller flying systems, like drones, RC and model…
Spaghetti Detective: Open Source AI Software Detects Prints Gone Wrong
Desktop 3D printer users are quite familiar with the mishaps of some print job going wrong and extruders spilling material all over their machine while they’re out at the store…
Korea: The 3D Printable Open-Source Anthropomorphic Robot Hand System (HRI)
Hyeonjun Park and Donghan Kim of Kyung Hee University in Korea are innovating within the robotics realm, detailing their efforts in the recently published ‘An open-source anthropomorphic robot hand system:…
3D Printing: A Technology of Degrowth? Part 2
In the first part in our series on the possible role of 3D printing in a degrowth society, we explored some of the more sustainable aspects of the technology and…
The Maker Movement Unmade? Part 4: Attack of the Clones
Read parts one, two and three of this series. Determining a definitive cause of the economic misfortunes of some companies in the open source hardware and maker spaces might prove…
The Maker Movement Unmade? Part 3: Casualties of Open Source War
Since the maker movement began to evolve out of hacklabs and hackerspaces, we’ve seen it transform in ways that led to some of the movement’s initial pioneers go sideways. These…
Top 5 Software Packages for 3D Printing
3D printing is a tough job. Although once learned, it does not seem too tricky. However, for beginners, it might not seem as friendly as various other new technologies. The…
Michigan Technological University: 3D Printed Molecular Models for Chemistry
In the recently published ‘Printing 3D Models for Chemistry,’ authors Elisabeth Grace Billman-Benveniste, Jacob Franz, and Loredana Valenzano-Slough–all from Michigan Technological University–have produced a guide for 3D printing users on…
3D Printed WHO Bioassay Kit Parts Could Help Combat Malaria
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), malaria is a mosquito-born disease caused by a parasite. While roughly less than 2,000 cases are diagnosed annually in the…
3D Printing News Briefs: October 14, 2019
In today’s 3D Printing News Briefs, everything is new, new, new! Carbon is announcing a new RPU 130 material, and STERNE Elastomere introduces its antimicrobial silicone 3D printing. Protolabs launches…
LulzBot Releases Its First Bioprinter
Bioprinting is revolutionizing the way 3D printed tissues can be used to mimic in vivo conditions. The fields of regenerative medicine, pharmaceutical development, and cosmetic testing are benefiting from this…
Open Source DIY Telescope Prime Features Raspberry Pi and 3D Printed Parts
While the majority of us are not astronauts, there is a tool that can be used in your home to make you feel like you’re just a little bit closer…
Electric 3D Printing by Adrian Bowyer May Take Only a Few Seconds to Build Objects
RepRap Ltd. user and hero of the open-source 3D printing movement Adrian Bowyer endeavors to use an electric current to create a 3D printed liquid plastic monomer that will polymerize…
Wikifactory’s Docubot Challenge Creates a Hardware Solution for Documentation
International startup Wikifactory, established in Hong Kong last June, is a social platform for collaborative product development. Co-founded by four makers, and until recently counting 3DPrint.com Editor-in-Chief Joris Peels as a member…