3D Printer Chat

September 23, 2016 3AM Productions 2

Governments are trying to control what you can print.

Get involved. I don’t normally jump in on the anti-gun issues or the 3d printed gun issues but please stay with me, this is bigger than the US and our love/hatred for the second amendment. We need to pay attention to the information laws being passed these days....

September 22, 2016 3D-PT 3

ColorFabb Composite Filament Review

CorkFill, WoodFill, GlowFill, CarbonFiber, BronzeFill, CopperFill Months ago Colorfabb sent me a sample box of some of their exotic composite filaments to test. These filaments have been the world leader in composite filaments, combining the properties of the wood, metal and carbon, with the printing properties of PLA....

September 19, 2016 Diana Lizbeth 0

3D printing your own cosmetics with Mink

{:en} If you’ve never wore makeup or do not know how much it costs a quality makeup, let me explain you guys more about this art: Makeup is an ancient practice which has been around for thousands of years. We originally used it to protect ourselves from elements...

September 17, 2016 3AM Productions 0

Fixing the Wanhao Duplicator I3 Plus 3D Printer (public service announcement )

Fixing the Wanhao Duplicator I3 Plus 3D Printer I tend to be a bit more paranoid than most when it comes to 3dprinter and what can go wrong, only because I built most of mine instead of buying a ready to print machine. So when I saw this...

September 15, 2016 Olivia 0

Sienci Mill One – Review

Sienci Mill One - The Desktop CNC While 3D printing is all the rage right now and has been for a good couple of years, there are other desktop fabrication technologies that offer a diverse feature set for the enthusiast looking to make amazing things at home. 3D...

September 14, 2016 3D-PT 0

Nanodax Glass Wool Polypropylene Review

Nanodax Co. Ltd is a startup filament company from Japan that is testing a new type of filament material. There prototype filament is glass wool polypropylene (GWPP). When I first read the email from Nanodax about this, I was doubtful that a filament could be made from polypropylene....

September 13, 2016 3AM Productions 3

6 More printable tools worth adding to your workbench.

6 More printable tools worth adding to your workbench. Small items organizer by cruzher, published Jul 10, 2016 As the owner of a 3d printer, anytime I can print something instead of buying something makes me happy. So one thing I keep an eye out for are tools or...

September 12, 2016 Olivia 2

Flutter Scout – 3D-Printable Remote Controlled Car

Flutter scout v2 Is the most economical 3d printed remote control car. This car is built to inspire people to make 3D printed robots. Among the 3D printed remote control cars, this car is very diverse and remarkable. The design of...

September 07, 2016 Nick Kalogeropoulos 1

Top 6 Unique CAD Programs (2016)

In this list, I have compiled a list of the top 3 3D Design/CAD programs that have shined in one way or another. The list is in no particular order, as each program is a gem of its own. I call them “best” by comparing them to other...

September 05, 2016 3D-PT 2

1st Annual Filament Olympics

The Olympic and Paralympic Games are an amazing show of athletic talent from around the world. As the world watches the best compete for the gold medal, I wanted to see how all the filaments that I have tested compare to each other. Just like gymnastics, there is...

September 05, 2016 Diana Lizbeth 51

Take a look at Cura’s latest version 2.3.0

{:en} CURA is the first slicing software which you get to work if you start with the RepRap Project. Now that is owned by Ultimaker, it seeks to position itself as one of the leading slicing software for 3D printing through a set of changes that merge in...

September 03, 2016 3AM Productions 0

Top 5 American Filament Makers 2016

Top 5 American Filament Makers 2016 I’m all for cheap filaments. Like most of us, I don’t have a lot of money to throw around. I print a lot, and I’m always looking for an excuse to print something so I rarely buy more expensive filaments. When I...

September 02, 2016 3AM Productions 1

Design a nerf blaster and win an ultimaker.

Design a nerf blaster and win an ultimaker. 3D Printing Is running a contest until 9/23/2016, with a grand prize of an ultimaker. To enter you must first go to Facebook and join the 3d Printing Group. To win all you need to do is design, print and enter a blaster...

August 31, 2016 3AM Productions 60

How to Fix a Bricked 3D Printer board. (installing a bootloader)

{:en} How to Fix a Bricked Printer board.(Arduino based) A few weeks ago I made a huge mistake and bricked my MKS Base, board. I wasn’t happy with some of my firmware settings. I decided to open up the firmware and do a little tweaking. As you probably can guess, things...

August 25, 2016 Diana Lizbeth 0

Let’s move our prints to the cloud!

{:en} The technological age seems great to me, Who would have thought we could do so much with so little devices (Smartphones), or backup all our information in digital ‘clouds’ and have immediately access to it from almost anywhere in the world? Nowadays, I can not only access...

August 24, 2016 Chola 0

When 3D Printing and IoT Merge: Smart Customisation in Printing

{:en}The 3D printing industry is expected to grow to around 21 billion USD by 2020 and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) market is forecasted to reach 151 billion USD by the same time frame, according to reports of Forbes and Marketsandmarkets. Giants like GE and Cisco show a...

August 24, 2016 Diana Lizbeth Comments Off

Print Metals using a conventional 3D printer.

{:en} The Virtual Foundry Company has developed a hybrid filament between metal and thermoplastic materials in order to make metal’s 3D printing more accessible to the community; Filamet ™, the 3D printing filament allows you create high-quality metal objects from any conventional desktop printer. 88.5% Metal Prints. Just...

August 22, 2016 Nick Kalogeropoulos 1

3 Types of People I Hate in the 3D Printing Community

{:en}Okay, first to explain what I mean with the term "3D Printing Fad", because it has created a lot of confusion within many of the articles I have written, and it is what I base my analysis on. I acknowledge that 3D Printing in itself is an additive...

August 15, 2016 Jacob 0

The Box, a Granular Fed 3D-Printer in Monster Size.

{:en} The Box is one of the largest printers in the world, it has a build volume of 2.5 cubic meters!, a printing speed of up to 1 200mm/s and can print up to 6 kg of materials per hour. The reason the printer can print so much...

August 15, 2016 3D-PT 1

Beaver 3D Silk-like Filament Review

{:en}Many 3D printing filaments have a matte or flat plastic finish to them, which may not make the most appealing artistic 3D prints. While there are methods to polish these prints to a high-gloss finish, using a chemical process can be messy and potentially dangerous. Chinese filament companies...

August 14, 2016 3AM Productions 1

What 3D-Printer to buy 2016

{:en} What 3D-Printer to buy 2016 We have a lot of options these days. Companies left and right are popping up with their own take on 3D printers. Figuring out what is good and what is bad can be pretty difficult. Then you add budget into the mix...

August 09, 2016 3AM Productions 0

Cheapest 3D Printing Filaments that don’t suck.

{:en}Printing with exotic filaments is great but it can be very expensive. It actually is the most expensive part of this hobby. I’m not just talking about the exotics, though. Matter hackers are one of the more trusted filament makers around and if you just buy the bread...

August 07, 2016 3AM Productions 0

3D Printing an Electric Longboard as your next DIY Project

{:en} Transportation these days comes in many forms, some of those forms are dumb as hell. The hoverboard is the worst Idea ever. All self-balancing boards are. They are inefficient as they have to balance the rider and drive forward at the same time. I won’t deny the...

August 03, 2016 3AM Productions 0

The future of 3d printing In the home.

{:en} I have been thinking about this for a while. I have only had a 3d printer for a couple years now but I have been following the community for far longer. The days when home brew machines used weed eater line and printers looked more like an evil...

July 31, 2016 Diana Lizbeth 0

PURPS, THE PENGUIN WHO RECOVERED ITS ‘HAPPY FEET’ BY 3D PRINTING

{:en} Even when it is not the first time 3D printing technologies come to the aid of other species for partial or full recovering life’s style, get to know about new cases is always comforting to our community; this particular case shows how Mystic Aquarium, Mystic Middle School,...

July 31, 2016 3D-PT 0

3D Printers or Gun Makers?

{:en} Gun control is a hot button issue in the USA this election year. Flying low on the spectrum of gun control is the issue of 3D printed guns. It seems that the storm in a teacup over Cody Wilson and Defense Distributed Liberator Pistol was nothing for...

July 29, 2016 Chola 0

How Tasty Can You ‘3D Print’ Your Food?

{:en}A new high-tech multicultural cuisine is right under way to be devoured at your own homes. Thanks to the skyrocketing pace of 3D printing innovations, it is now possible to actually 'print' the food we eat. In addition, it is also claimed that 3D printed food can be...

July 29, 2016 Nick Kalogeropoulos 29

Why 3D Printing Must Alter Its Course

{:en} Come on 3D Printing, give up on trying to be user friendly and return to your roots. It is more than evident today that 3D Printers are in a similar course with Personal, Desktop Computers. In the very beginning, they needed huge rooms to operate. Then industrial...

July 25, 2016 Diana Lizbeth 2

WOULD YOU TRY 3-DINNER EXPERIENCE?

{:en} Have you ever guessed what future tastes like, or the way we’ll feed few years later? Well, thanks to Antony Dobrzensky, Marcio Barradas and a group of many other techs and food experts you could have a very futurist variety course meal just around the corner! Best...

July 20, 2016 3D-PT 1

Hack A 3D Print

{:en} 3D printing technology is quickly becoming a pivotal part of many industries. With this exploding technology, a recent article published in the journal JOM highlights how 3D printing can be vulnerable to corporate espionage. As 3D printers play a larger industrial roll in our society, developing ways...

July 19, 2016 Chola 0

Design guidelines for 3D printing – part II: Design tips to excel print quality

{:en}In the current rapidly advancing era of home-based manufacturing, it is a requisite for every one of us to understand the intricacies of 3D printing and adapt our designs in order to get sound prints. Previously in the article Design guidelines for 3D printing – design tips to...

July 16, 2016 3AM Productions 1

One quick cooling mod for your 3D Printer

{:en}2-in-1 fan duct: extruder and filament cooler for E3D V6 and others by eiPionezero I have a few printers but I think my favorite is my first one. The kit That started it all. The thing is that it is also my test printer. Every time I want...

July 15, 2016 Robbie Pearson 0

3D-Printing for Scuba Diving

{:en}Whoever uses/owns 3D Printers will know that they are an incredibly useful tool for fixing or improving objects in your daily life. 3D Printing is also a useful tool for making objects for hobbies (although I wouldn't recommend 3D Printing things for hobbies like skydiving just yet...), but...

July 15, 2016 3AM Productions 4

5 tools You the community suggested for your 3d printers.

{:en} After My last post, I got some good feedback from the community, for tools they used and thought should have been in my last list. After Reading through the suggestions I decided to make another. I found a few I owned but didn’t use for 3d printing...

July 13, 2016 konradszmit 1

Add touch control to your printer for cheap!

{:en} Do you struggle to control your printer with this small knob and low resolution LCD screen ? Or maybe you are tired with this blocky user interface that it offers? I will tell you a secret – you can control your printer with your old smartphone with...