3D Printing: How Long Till The Revolution? I can’t wait!
3D Printing: How Long till the Revolution? From the Farnell/Newark Group and designed by Neo Mammalian Studios takes a stab at predicting the rise of 3D printing. Seriously, I want the day when I can print out my own coffee cup design, custom LEGO shapes and a new iPhone case! Download the model, and print! That flimsy plastic piece from the vacuum broke again?!? 3D printing has slowly started to get popular in use in the industry, by the hobbyists and ordinary individuals in their homes. The doughnut charts are colorful and unique in that hexagon shape. Turn Your Plastic Recyclables Into 3D Printing Spools With Filabot. Source: Filabot 3D printers are getting cooler every day, but there’s one component integral to 3D printing that normally gets overlooked – that is, until you have to pay for it.
As many 3D hobbyists have no doubt discovered, the one time cost of the printer can be quickly dwarfed by feeding it spool after spool of raw plastic. At $40 or more per spool, an avid hobbyist can see his or her enthusiasm rapidly diminished. Maybe Filabot won’t revolutionize how 3D printing is done, but how often it is done. Filabot is a 3D plastic extrusion system that takes all kinds of recyclable plastic – milk jugs, soda, detergent and shampoo bottles – and turns them into raw material for 3D printing creativity.
Not only will your household recyclables now appear as treasure troves of cheap and virtually endless supply of 3D printing plastic, all those projects that didn’t print right, cracked, or just didn’t turn out the way you thought it would can now be given a second chance at greatness. Search Thingiverse. Gallery. London Underground 2009 Stock by MindTheGap. 3D Warehouse Advanced Search Sign In Error Download Downloads .skp File Size 310.8 kB Polygons Materials Uploaded Last Modified Share <> Embed Thumbnail3D Viewer Tags.
Trimble SketchUp. Printrbot: Your First 3D Printer by Brook Drumm. I designed the Printrbot to be the simplest 3D printer yet.
There are some great kits out there - the Makerbot, the Ultimaker, the Prusa Mendel, and others - but none as small and simple as the Printrbot. This all-in-one 3D printer kit can be assembled and printing in a couple of hours. Other kits will not only take you many more hours to build, they will also have hundreds more parts, and they will cost more. My design also does away with the finicky calibration and adjustment from which most 3D printers suffer.
This is the printer a kid could put together. The Printrbot is my original design, but borrows from many great designers in the open source 3D printer world (check out reprap.org). Pictures of the Printrbot: Video of the Printrbot: More Info: printrbot.com Being a true RepRap means you will immediately be able to upgrade and modify the machine with parts you print yourself. This kickstarter will do more than fund a single project. Please, help us change the world. The MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer - Announcement. RepRapWiki. TEDxEWB Talk: Adrian Bowyer at Imperial College, London, introduces RepRap RepRap is humanity's first general-purpose self-replicating manufacturing machine.
RepRap takes the form of a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects. Since many parts of RepRap are made from plastic and RepRap prints those parts, RepRap self-replicates by making a kit of itself - a kit that anyone can assemble given time and materials. It also means that - if you've got a RepRap - you can print lots of useful stuff, and you can print another RepRap for a friend...
RepRap is about making self-replicating machines, and making them freely available for the benefit of everyone. Reprap.org is a community project, which means you are welcome to edit most pages on this site, or better yet, create new pages of your own. RepRap was the first of the low-cost 3D printers, and the RepRap Project started the open-source 3D printer revolution. Thingiverse - Digital Designs for Physical Objects.
3D Scanning. 3D Printing with Kinect. EmailShare 44EmailShare 80 mm tall scan, printed with a Thing-O-Matic I’ve been working with 3d scanning for over two years now, building my own 3d scanners and writing code to work with commercial scanners like the Kinect.
When I started my artist residency at MakerBot, I knew I had to combine 3d scanning and 3d printing. One of the first ideas we had was to set up a 3d photo booth at MakerBot to scan visitors. So I wrote an app called KinectToStl which first launched at the MakerBot NY user group. I’ve been maintaining a GitHub repository of all the code I write while at MakerBot, and the source is available for download there. Once you’ve downloaded the app, plug in your Kinect and start the app, you’ll see three tabs and four sliders. Screenshot from KinectToStl The first tab is where the relevant options are: zCutoff controls how far away your cutoff plane is, in centimeters. Once you’ve framed the subject and have your settings right, click on “exportStl”. Shapeways - Make & Share Your Products with 3D Printing.