Watch These Lasers Print a Microscopic Spaceship In Under a Minute
Building a spaceship generally isn’t something you do on a whim. But that’s not quite the case with this tiny one, which can be fully printed by lasers in under a minute. Using mirrors...
View ArticleThese 3D-printed, NFC-tagged figures are basically DIY Skylanders
Skylanders, the runaway hit spawned from the Spyro franchise, became so popular mainly because it is a product that incorporates video games with action figures. Each figure represents a character in...
View ArticleWhen You Try to Raise $30K and Instead Get $1.8M (And Counting)
When a Kickstarter project sets out to raise $30,000, and smashes through that goal in five hours — and then five days later it has raised more than $1.8 million — you gotta wonder, how did they not...
View ArticleStick It To The Military-Industrial Ink Complex By 3D Printing Your Own...
This has to be one of the most uniquely disruptive uses of 3D printing I’ve seen: an ink refill company has successfully 3D-printed a Kodak ink cartridge, refilled it, and printed with it. Using a...
View Article‘The Micro’ is a $199 3D Printer Now Funding on Kickstarter
High end 3D printers out in the wild already can print some pretty incredible things but at a high cost and commensurate level of complexity. As with any nascent industry, the market’s initial focus...
View ArticleHome 3D Printers Emit Some Nasty Stuff, Researchers Find
Home 3D printers – particularly FDM, Makerbot-like devices – are still in their infancy and, as such, are untested when it comes to safety. That’s why some researchers at the Built Environment...
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