Category: 3D Printing
Hands on with CEL Robox 3D Printer: Can normal people do 3D printing?
If there’s one sort of device I’ve never got along well with, it is printers. Despite being a moderately nerdy man, who is usually the one in the room who ends up having to fix the computer, and having built a reputation for being tech savvy, printers are just beyond me. Loading ink? What a…
WATCH: 3Doodler 3D drawing pen is now slimmer and lighter
One of the coolest tools of the last few years has been 3Doodler - a pen that literally lets you draw 3D objects right in front of you. The original device was pretty bulky, but excitingly we recently learned that the developer has taken it back to the (3D) drawing board and has come up…
It is now possible to 3D print a DRONE!
New 3D printing technology that enables the printing of electronic circuit boards has apparently led to the creation of a drone that can be entirely 3D printed. For real. According to Michael Stiver on Medium, the drone is a creation of a company called Voxel8, which is made up of Harvard & MIT professors. Later…
WATCH: Amazing 3D printed bust of Obama being made
How did we miss this last month? Painting and sculpture is soooo last century. If you want to record the President's likeness now, what you need is some 3D cameras and an array of GoPros. Check out this video showing how the President's face was scanned in immense detail, in many different lighting conditions -…
WATCH: 3D Printed Cars are things that we can make now
Check this out - a company called Local Motors has made a fully functioning 3D printed car. The 100% electric car features regenerative breaking, rear-wheel drive and a battery with a 62 mile range - and 3.5 hour charge time. Amazingly, it only takes four days to print. According to the company, whilst the car…
WATCH: Amazing paper airplane machine gun
Check out this guy, who has built a gun that automatically folds and launches paper aeroplanes. It is the cleverest thing you'll see all day. If you watch to the end you'll see how it works - essentially each sheet of paper is sent along a production line as it turned into a plane. Even…
3D Hubs network could be about to make 3D printing mainstream
Need to print that one widget you need but don't have a 3D printer? A new network of 3D print shops could be about to make the new technology go slightly more mainstream. 3D Hubs is pretty clever. Rather than have everyone buy a 3D printer for their home, it is instead a website where…
WATCH: 3D Printed Saxophone
If you're wondering just how good 3D printing can be now check out this video from Prof Olaf Diegel at Lund University, who has printed himself a saxophone. Apparently the Alto Sax is made of 41 separately printed parts and weighs 25% less than a normal instrument. As he says in the video - it…
Flying 3D printer drone is surprisingly not a completely stupid idea
Drones aren't cool. You know what's cool? Drones that have a built in 3D printers. Surprisingly, they have a purpose too. The drone, that was discovered by New Scientist was invented by Imperial College's Mirko Kovac, who directed their aerial…
Gadget Show Live: Previewing the Robox 3D Printer
Today we're at Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham, and one of the exhibitors there is an intriguing 3D printing company called Robox, whose first products are shipping to Kickstarter backers in the next couple of weeks. Unlike…
