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Powercore Aims to Bring the Power of EDM to Any 3D Printer
The desktop manufacturing revolution has been incredible, unleashing powerful technologies that once were strictly confined to industrial and institutional users. If you doubt that, just look at 3D...
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3D-Printed Parts Don’t Slow Down This Speedy Printer
Truth be told, we generally find speed sports to be a little boring. Whether it’s cars going around in circles for hours on end or swimmers competing to be a few milliseconds faster than everyone else,...
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Robot 3D Prints Giant Metal Parts with Induction Heat
While our desktop machines are largely limited to various types of plastic, 3D printing in other materials offers unique benefits. For example, printing with concrete makes it possible to quickly build...
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3D Printed Artificial Nose is Totally Vegan
Prosthetics are complicated, highly personal things. They must often be crafted and customized precisely to suit the individual. Additive manufacturing is proving a useful tool in this arena, as...
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Cheap Deburring Tool Is Game Changer For 3D Printing
3D printing’s real value is that you can whip up objects in all kinds of whacky geometries with a minimum of fuss. However, there’s almost always some post-processing to do. Like many manufactured...
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Reliable 3D Printing With Ceramic Slurry
3D printing is at its most accessible (and most affordable) when printing in various plastics or resin. Printers of this sort are available for less than the cost of plenty of common power tools....
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An Open-Source Antikythera Mechanism
When the Antikythera Mechanism was first discovered, it wasn’t viewed as the wonder that we know it today. Originally the divers who found the device and the first scientists to look at it wrote it off...
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Sloth Door Greeter Uses Neat Fold-Up Electronics Enclosures
[Alan Reiner] is building a sloth-like door greeter for his house. Sloxel, as he is affectionately known, can move around and even talk, with [Alan] using some nifty tricks in the design process...
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Giant 3D Printer Can Print Life-Sized Human Statues
We’ve seen a few makers 3D scan themselves, and use those to print their own action figures or statuettes. Some have gone so far as building life-sized statues composed of many 3D printed parts. [Ivan...
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A Nifty 3D Printed RC Car
Once upon a time, a remote controlled (RC) car was something you’d buy at Radio Shack or your local hobby store. These days, you can print your own, complete with suspension, right at home, as this...
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Tensioning 3D Prints For Lightweight, Strong Parts
Desktop 3D printers have come a long way over the past decade. They’re now affordable for almost anyone, capable of printing in many diverse materials, and offer a level of rapid prototyping and...
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Checking Belt Tension Gets Easier For (Some) Prusa 3D Printers
Belts on a 3D printer should be tight enough, but not too tight. That can be an iffy thing to get right for someone who lacks familiarity with CNC platforms. Prusa Research aims to make it a bit easier...
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IKEA’s Billy Bookshelf is a Useful 3D Printing Enclosure
The results from your 3D printer may be improved if you use a dedicated enclosure for the job. This is particularly helpful for printing certain materials which are more sensitive to cold drafts or...
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Silencing a 3D Printer With Acoustic Foam Isn’t That Easy
3D printers are supremely useful tools, but their incessant whining and droning can be distracting and tiresome. [Handy Bear] decided to try some simple ways to quieten down their printer using...
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Looking Inside a 3D Printer Nozzle with Computed Tomography
Have you ever wondered what’s actually going on inside the hotend of your 3D printer? It doesn’t seem like much of a mystery — the filament gets melty, it gets squeezed out by the pressure of the...
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10-Foot High 3D Printer Based on Ender 3
There are two main ways to 3D print large things. You can either make lots of small 3D prints and stick them together, or you can use a larger 3D printer. [Emily the Engineer] went the latter route by...
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A Simple And Effective 3D Filament Splicer
There are times in every 3D print enthusiast’s life when it would be convenient to join two pieces of filament. The problem with simply melting them together is that the resulting join has a blob of...
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What The Artisan 3-in-1 CNC Offers (If One Has The Table Space)
I never feel like I have enough space in my workshop. The promise of consolidating tools to make the most of limited space drew me to the Snapmaker Artisan, a plus-sized 3-in-1 tool combining 3D...
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An Automated Watch Cleaner From An Older 3D Printer
The many delicate parts in a mechanical wristwatch present a tricky cleaning problem, one that for professionals there is a variety of machines to tackle. As you might expect, such specialty equipment...
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Slab Casting – A New Way to Combine 3D Printing and Ceramics
Slip casting can be messy both in processing and in making the original plaster mold. What if there was a better way, thanks to 3D printing? [Allie Katz] has developed a new technique using 3D printed...
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