Apr 21, 2013 | Design, In the News, Printing
This is honestly not a late April Fools joke. TED Fellow Skylar Tibbits gave a TED talk to describe the research and development partnerships his MIT lab is making to develop 4D printing. What is 4D printing? Well, you should watch his TED talk below, but...
Apr 1, 2013 | In the News, Printing
[Update: this was an April Fools joke perpetrated by thinkgeek and disseminated by 3D printing enthusiasts] I can’t wait to review the first Play-Doh 3D printer. It’s another “I wish I though of that” product as it gets kids thinking about 3D...
Mar 20, 2013 | @UR, Design, Printing, SketchUp
As mentioned previously, I’m enclosing our Solidoodle 3 printer to try to get better results through minimizing warping and parts not sticking. As a slight aside, the Cubestick on glass is now working very well for sticking. The trick is to wash the glass plate...
Mar 18, 2013 | @UR, Printing
We’ve had some trouble with prints sticking to the print bed over the last year and a half since we acquired our first 3D printer. It’s mostly a matter of choice. It’s not that we want poor adhesion, but we have made the decision to run our...
Feb 27, 2013 | @UR, Design, In the News, Printing, SketchUp
Update: See updated design and photo of the prototype that can automatically feed at the end of this post (I have not yet tested heating). As much excitement as there is around the 3Doodler kickstarter project, it turns out that there is some prior art vis-à-vis a...
Feb 19, 2013 | Design, In the News, Printing
To be filed into the “I wish I thought of that” category is a new extremely minimalist for of 3D printer – the 3Doodler. Every time I describe fused deposition modeling (the long-winded way of talking about the most common form of low-cost 3D...
