Printers

How 3D Printing Changed My Life: The spirit of hacker cool is alive and well at SXSW: Just follow the trail of MakerBots BY ANDREW LEONARD 3D Printing Rocket Engines That’s the hope of DIYRockets, a company which advocates the open-source development of space. 3D Printing Vending Machine By Tyler Falk by [...]

The completed replica. – ©Andrew Weekes Photography Loughborough University, with the assistance of Materialise’s Mimics Innovation Suite, brought Richard III back to, well, almost life. From Materialise’s site: Scans of the actual remains taken by the Leicester Royal Infirmary were sent to Loughborough, where they were transformed into a 3D computer model using Materialise’s Mimics [...]

The ability to print objects smaller than a grain of sand.  Imagine the possibilities in medical and defense! From Nanoscribe’s Site:  Applications for their printer: 3D Photonics: Photonic crystals, metamaterials, light directors, circular polarizers, photonic band gap structures, photonic quasicrystals, photonic wire bonds, photonic color 3D Scaffolds and Biomimetics: Cell migration and stem cell differentiation [...]

The internet is sometimes a solution looking for a problem.  In this case however, finding a 3D printer that’s available in these early days can take some doing.  MakeXYZ is charged with fixing that problem. From MakeXYZ: We help people make stuff by connecting people who need something 3D printed with makers [...]

This is a RepRap Mendel Printer designed to work with three colours or three different plastics at the same time. In addition to the opportunities this gives you to put lettering on 3D prints and to produce muti-coloured objects, we are researching many functional materials for future release that you will [...]