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3D Print Your Chanter for More Convenient Bagpipe Practice
The Great Highland Bagpipes are not among the world’s easiest to manage instruments. Unlike walking around with a harmonica in your pocket or with a guitar slung over your shoulder,…
3D Printed Covers Dress Up Absolut Vodka Bottles for Swiss Campaign Event
One of my go-to drinks is a dirty vodka martini (extra dirty, extra blue cheese olives), so I’m always on the lookout for the best one around. The key, obviously, to…
Mark Bern Takes His 2-Dimensional Pixel Art and Prints it in 3D
When most of us speak of visual art, we usually get a picture of a painting or a sculpture in our heads. Perhaps we visualize Michelangelo’s paintings that cover the…
Solidscape Announces 2015 Baselworld Design Competition Winners in Jewelry and Fine Art
Solidscape®, Inc., a subsidiary of Stratasys, Inc., leads the 3D printer market in high precision, direct manufacturing applications — such as jewelry. Solidscape’s high standards in accuracy, surface finish, and…
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…
Swiss Engineer 3D Prints an Incredible Laser Projection Clock
Writing about 3D printing day in and day out I find myself always stumbling upon projects which really do show off the power that a 3D printer can place into…
DKSH to Distribute EnvisionTEC 3D Printing Solutions Throughout Asia
Today comes an announcement from Zurich regarding a dynamic new agreement and partnership between two European companies with their sights set on lighting Asia up with their 3D printing solutions…
Swiss Maker and Teacher 3D Prints Scale Model of the Eiffel Tower in 100 Pieces
It took Gustave Eiffel and company a little over two years to complete the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris. During the fundraising that preceded the construction of the then very…
Microscopic 3D Printing May Allow Micro-Robots to Deliver Medicine Inside Your Body
I didn’t really see this one coming, and if you did, I am duly impressed. With 3D printing technology, it’s not all about the external. Many medical breakthroughs due to 3D…
3D Printed ‘Down Up’ Tap Designed to Avoid Contortions at the Drinking Fountain
We’ve all been there. You’re in a public building (a school, say) and you’re thirsty. Suddenly in the hallway, there it is! Your best bet for a quick quench: the…