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The Pi Tank – 3D Printed Open Source Smartphone Controlled Raspberry Pi Robot

It’s really amazing to see all of the unique ways people have been utilizing 3D printing in their lives. We are finally beginning to see trends emerge within the desktop…

Pi-Top Version 3 Unveiled — The 3D Printable Raspberry Pi Laptop — 30% Thinner & New Functionality

Probably one of the coolest projects we have seen in the last several months is that of the Pi-Top, a Raspberry Pi-enabled 3D printed laptop. When the Pi-Top was first…

High School Teacher Creates Drogerdy, the 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Controlled Tank Bot

Raspberry Pi and 3D printing seem to go together like peanut butter and raspberry jelly. There are so many different possibilities that inventors and innovators can come up with when…

Super Game Pi: 3D Print Your Own Large-Screen SNES Gameboy — from AdaFruit

Anyone who knows a passionate gamer, or is one, is probably well aware that this isn’t just a fascination with the games, but often also includes a penchant for checking…

FreeLSS Open Source 3D Printable Scanning System Powers DIY Scanners Like the ATLAS 3D

While the 3D printer has garnered an enormous amount of attention, performing new and heroic tasks on almost a daily basis, the 3D scanner has not historically received a proportionate…

Photon Elephant, the Raspberry Pi Controlled 3D Printed OS, Launches on Kickstarter

The maker movement is in full swing. Every day we stumble upon new, interesting projects which would never have been possible just a few short years ago. The growth within…

Bitcoin Entrepreneur 3D Prints A POS Terminal For Merchants To Bypass Bankers

Entrepreneur Ricardo Ferrer Rivero decided he would use 3D printing to build a merchant payment system that would let him bypass bankers, and so he settled on building terminals to…

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…

Your Own 3D Printed Mac Pi Used as a 3D Printing Monitor

We’ve got a Raspberry Pi recipe for classic Mac and 3D printing fans: Combine your nostalgia for the good old days of 128k with the DIY culture of Arduino, Raspberry…

Maker Uses Cheap Conductive Foam and 3D Printing to Create a Touch Sensor Switch

Let’s Make Robots is a free, volunteer-based initiative started in 2008 and now entirely produced and maintained by members of their community, and they have lots of cool projects which…

DIYer 3D Prints and Wires a Programmable Home Thermostat

These days, we’re more inclined to ask, “Is there anything that can’t be 3D printed?” than we are to exclaim in astonishment at the latest 3D printing feat. From 3D printed…

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…

Kickstarter Campaign Launches for eNcade, Portable 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Gaming Tablet

The grass is always greener. And the gamers of this generation really do have the best of all worlds and all technology, as they can time travel in their gaming…

3D Print and Wire Your Own Functioning Mini-Arcade

If you need more time to procrastinate and have fun at your desk, here’s a great new gadget idea for you: the 3D printed mini-arcade, by Instructables user diygizmo. With the easy…

UNC at Chapel Hill Opens a Makerspace for Free, On-Campus 3D Printing

Some of the most remarkable and innovative achievements in 3D design and printing are happening in the academic environment, including collaborative efforts between academia and industry. While preserving the long-standing…

World’s First Raspberry Pi Controlled 3D Printer is Created by Engineering Student

Raspberry Pi has become quite the useful tool in creating projects which involve 3D printing. In fact, close to 3 million Raspberry Pi boards have been sold so far, and…

Amazing Self-balancing 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Robot

As of late, there has been quite an interesting intersection between 3D printing and the Raspberry Pi, credit card-sized single-board computer. When the two are combined, the number of applicable…

Printr – New Platform Plans to Help 3D Printing go Mainstream

One of the most common excuses as to why consumer 3D printing has had such a slow adoption rate, is that it can be quite confusing to those of us…

AstroPrint Launches on Kickstarter in Mid May – Makes 3D Printing Wireless, Simple & Organized

‘3D Printing’. Those two words have a lot of meaning, but what do most people think about when they hear them? More than likely, they think that “3D printing” is…