Joseph Chiu recorded this video of the portable 3D Printer Bukito from Deezmaker using some of Joseph’s filament to print upside down and on the go.
Fixing the Support Issue
So after my last adventures trying to get supports to work on round objects I appealed to the Makebot user’s group and got back the response that I should probably focus on bridging and finding out the lowest temperature I can print at. So I did and I didn’t take any good pictures of the process but I’m still fiddling at something …
Autodesk is buying Tinkercad. Joe is happy
http://blog.tinkercad.com/2013/05/18/autodesk_tinkercad/ I can’t imagine better hands for TinkerCad than AutoDesk. I love their suite of tools and they like the maker community. They’re even fixing the problems with the payed services making the free accounts usable again. This is great news and by children will be thrilled!
11 year old inventor gets a makerbot
http://vimeo.com/66295175The kid isn’t producing any thing ground breaking or world changing… yet. But this tool is in the right hands for sure. It looks like he’s using Sketchup to do his modeling. I wonder if I should try teaching that to my kids.
10 Reasons you need a 3D printer now
It’s not a good thing when the first article on a “3D print” website is an article that is not grounded in the reality of 3D printing at all. Food? Really? Because when we have the Jetson’s food-o-matic if it’s called a 3D printer it will only be to latch on to the hype. And “Random household items” on your …
Steampunk Robot Chess Set
Modified version of DutchMogul’s Steampunk Robot Chess Set. These pictures are pre-smoothing but the acetone vapor finish goes very will with the robotic chess set. I think I’ll pair this one with the tiki chess set to make Steampunk vs Island Magic.
3D Printers for Peace
Just to make you aware, you could win a Type A Machine 3D printer, which isn’t too bad. Just design something that could change the world.
Making a hose spike
When putting down the watering system for the garden this year we needed something to hold the hose down. Sure, we could just use a piece of bent wire, but that idea literally did not cross my mind until I had designed, printed, and tested a solution, and only then when my wife suggested that we could just use wire. …
Questions about 3D printing Survey
User Rosalei on Thingiverse asked me to fill out a survey and per my usual I wanted to post it and my answers here. After some initial questions about my demographic and a strange one about what I do for a living (hint, asking about profession in a survey about 3D printing will give you almost no useful information) the …
Cute Dancing Robot from RoboBrrd
Thanks to writing buddy of mine Devin Watson to bringing this to my attention, here’s a fun 3D printing and electronics project that makes a fun toy for the kids. Buddy 4000 is a 3D printed robot with electronics and servos embedded to make it dance. Instructions are available on Robobrrd and they’ll even sell you the printed chassis sans the electronics …