The cost of plastic filament, the raw material 3D printers heat and then deposit to fabricate objects has kept the technology out of the reach of most people. Over the last two years 3D-printing had a boom, of sorts, and the price has become more accessible for the average consumer. Here is an excerpt [...]
After a long and hard journey FormLabs finally raised the 1.8M target they had set to build there 3D Printer the FORM1 but only achieved there goal with the help from Kickstarter. However, 3D Systems has alleged one of its patents was being infringed by the machine. It has also filed a lawsuit against Formlabs itself. The two defendants [...]
There is a new style of learning out there for kids and its called KIDE. Kide encourages children’s creative thinking and designing skills that is all learnt though playing. The founder of Kide is Dejan Microvic, originally from Serbia, after he graduated from the Royal College of Art and the Imperial college of London where he acquired his masters in innovation Design and [...]
As most of us know, that when printing somthing in 3D its nomally printed with plastics or printing Stereolithography, that requires a type liquid base resin to print. I.materialize is testing a new product which allows you to print 3D structures in stainless steel (HS). This allow for more durability and higher detail to the product. For [...]
For sure the concept of 3D printing is no longer beyond our grasp, afterall it’s a technology that has been some years waiting in the wings. But what is marvelous is the chance to finally see the potential of the technology not just lighting up the imagination but actually setting it on fire and stampeding [...]
As the price of the technology falls, additive manufacturing, or 3D printing – the process of building up objects in layers – is rapidly promising to move beyond being restricted to expensive prototyping and take composites – and indeed, the manufacturing of many other solid materials – to the next level. Now Israel-headquartered Objet, a [...]
In February, Dr. Lacovara had announced that the Paleontology department at Drexel would team up with the Engineering department for what would largely be a novel new project: scanning all of the fossils in the University’s collection (including some previously unidentified dinosaurs of Lacovara’s own finds in other parts of the world) using a 3D [...]
While 3D printing seems like a hot, new and expanding technology, this new flavour of 3D printing could cause your waistline to expand. A couple of months ago we mentioned the Makerbot 3D Replicator here on HEXUS. 3D printers can be used to make prototypes, replacement parts for your car, Raspberry Pi cases and even [...]
If you want to buy the UP! Plus or Afinia 3D Printers in the UK or Europe, we recommend CD-writer.com. You can find their Listing for the UP! Plus 3D Printer here and Afinia 3D Printer here Hello again. The last Post was about the individual constituents of our Printer. Now we will create a whole [...]
The photo below was an experiment in optical illusion. We were looking to see if we could print a 3D model that would actually look like a classic CAD image – complete with the geometrical design lines. Did we succeed? I think so. Most people looking at the image below assumed that we’d superimposed a CAD of an avocado onto [...]
3D Printer Shop
