All the stories tagged with 3d printer
Urbee 3D printed car heads to the Great White North
09/22/2011, We’re so used to printing documents, that to contemplate the possibility of printing an actual object is mind boggling. While 3D printers have certainly come down in price somewhat due to advances in the field as well as technology, that [...]
DIY 3D printer with robotic UV laser
09/11/2011, Stereoscopic 3D TVs seem to be the next frontier that manufacturers want to push into our living rooms, but what about 3D printers? An affordable version for the average consumer is still far from reality, so necessity being the mother [...]
3D printing demonstrated on video
08/02/2011, The folks over at BBC recently went to a rapid prototyping lab somewhere in London and tried out the 3D scanning and printing technologies available at the lab. Using the host’s as the test subject, they managed to come up [...]
We could be flying in 3D printed planes one day
07/29/2011, There are plenty of people out there who have a healthy fear of flying and sometimes you can’t blame them. After all no one likes the thought of plummeting to their deaths from such great heights, which is why we [...]
3D chocolate printer hails from the UK
07/05/2011, Can you say that the world is divided into two groups – those who love chocolates, and those who don’t? For our readers who fall under the former, here is some delicious news – UK scientists from the University of [...]
Solar Sinter 3D printer builds beautiful objects in the desert
06/27/2011, If you’re stuck in the middle of the desert – what do you have an abundance of? If you answered “time” you’re right. If you answered “sand and sun” – you’re also right. What can you do with all that [...]
Cheaper 3D printer from Vienna University of Technology
05/18/2011, A research team over at the Vienna University of Technology have managed to achieve what could very well usher in the age of cheap 3D printers in homes across America. This device is touted to reproducetiny, tailor-made 3D-objects at home, [...]
Kinect hack lets you as a tourist be your own 3D souvenir
04/05/2011, Each time you go for a holiday, do your family members have this expectation of you bringing home a bunch of souvenirs for them? If that’s the case, you might want to surprise them the next time round – giving [...]
3D printing method results in electrically small antenna design
03/20/2011, It goes without saying that the world of consumer electronics do benefit from Moore’s Law as well as the constant revolution of hardware and engineering that sees things getting smaller and smaller. Antennas, however, are slightly different since they do [...]
3D printers can be used to print artificial bones
03/11/2011, The Open3DP team at the University of Washington has managed to accomplish something extraordinary recently: they’ve successfully printed artificial bones with the use of a 3D printer. The main challenge the team faced was coming up with the material to use [...]
Consumers Will Manufacture Their Own Stuff Within a Decade
03/08/2011, Are we going to “print” our own parts and hardware from home soon? “Within a decade” says the CEO of EADS U.K as he shows this bicycle made of a new nylon-based material. The bicycle was “printed” with a 3D [...]
MakerBot 3D printer looks like a win
01/08/2011, [CES 2011] Are you the creative type who hoped that you have a 3D printer in order to realize your designs from paper to an actual device/toy? Well, that dream can now be realized with the MakerBot, a highly affordable [...]
HP DesignJet 3D Color Printer
04/21/2010, HP is on a mission to make 3D printers more affordable to the masses, but that probably doesn’t include most consumers as its latest Designjet 3D printers cost about $17,500, certainly more than our pocket money for the day. Still, [...]
