Category Archives: CNC/3D-printing

Several 3D printers under $500

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

Nice article describing a couple of 3D pritners under $500..till you start adding in extras  🙂 http://www.wired.com/design/2012/11/portabee-printrbot/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29

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How to justify a 3D printer

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

If you are married, building a 3D printer may get some raised eyebrows from your wife.  Here are 7 tools from Make Mag. that they found that are worth printing out (and justifying the printer your are building). http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/23/seven-cool-3d-printable-tools/

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Staples to offer 3-D Printing

Posted on November 29, 2012 by robertwilkie

In some spots in Europe only.  The nice thing about this is its like the refreshing of Kinkos for copying.  Instead of paper, its plastic.  If I read the article correctly, it will be setup just like Kinkos/Staples of today … Continue reading →

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3D with Paper

Posted on November 28, 2012 by robertwilkie

This is cool, it is basically a CNC that takes a ream of paper and cuts 3D objects out of it.  The video is fun to watch. http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/26/paper-based-3d-printing-process/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+makezineonline+%28MAKE%29

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Nice dig on the 3D vs 2D printer article

Posted on November 27, 2012 by robertwilkie

Worth reading, author does a good job countering the previous article about 3D vs 2D. http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/25/why-2d-printing-is-like-3d-printing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29

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Nice instructions on building a dual head for your 3D printer

Posted on November 21, 2012 by robertwilkie

I see an upgrade for my printer, if I ever get it up and running  🙂 http://www.instructables.com/id/Build-a-Dual-Extruder-for-3D-Printing/  

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What, a $300 3D Printer?

Posted on November 21, 2012 by robertwilkie

I am still working on my 3D printer, and now I find one for $300 dollars…sigh…   http://www.makible.com/products/makibox-a6-1

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Good basics on using a CNC (Homebrewed ones that is)

Posted on November 21, 2012 by robertwilkie

If you took machine shop classes, you should already know this, but if you didn’t… http://www.wired.com/design/2012/10/you-suck-at-using-a-cnc-router/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29

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DRM for 3D printing?

Posted on November 20, 2012 by robertwilkie

Basically its like tech of blueray to try and keep folks from printing out copyright material.  This soulds awefully like proposals for printing back in the 1980’s…. http://gizmodo.com/5952780/new-patent-could-saddle-3d-printers-with-drm

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3D printers are not like 2D printers

Posted on November 14, 2012 by robertwilkie

Interesting article that goes on about how 3D is so much cooler than your standard printer.  My 2 cents, from the “technology” area, there is alot of tech that comes from printers (2D) that could easily apply to 3D.  And … Continue reading →

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