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Set Up Multiple Octopi loaded on Raspberry Pi Zero
More printers are being released with Wi-Fi as a feature, but many have printers without Wi-Fi. So, wouldn’t it be nice if you could add Wi-Fi to your printer? Problem: I have three MonoPrice Duplicator i3s in my garage. When I print to…
Solid, Surface and Mesh 3D Design Formats Explained
There are three different formats you can work with in the 3D design process: solid, surface, and mesh. In this article, we’ll briefly explain these formats and what applications they are typically good for.
A Step By Step Guide – Your First 3D Printer
So you are now the proud owner of your first 3D Printer and you have questions? In this article I will explain the first use of your new printer. No matter what model your first 3D printer is, the steps I provide here will be useful to…
3D Printed Mallet Project : Printed in PLA
In this blog I show the results of 3D printing a working joiners mallet in PLA / PHA plastic. Included are the instructions and results of testing.
Adafruit tells you How to make 3D Printed molds for custom stamps!
Adafruit's Guide to 3D Print molds for custom Stamps
Hey guys, Any printing ideas going? Well, I was diving in some of my favorite blogs and luckily found this tutorial on how to make custom stamps using 3D Printed molds! This means you can…
Urn for Garden of Innocence Project, Part 1; 3D Printing Urns for Unknown Children
Garden of Innocence (GOI) provides dignified burials and cremation urn for abandoned or unidentified children. Every year GOI works with woodworkers who donate handmade caskets and cremation urns to properly bury these children.…
Add full color graphics to 3D Printed parts with Hydro Dipping guide by Adafruit
Learn how to Add full color graphics to 3D Printed parts using Hydro Dipping technique!
Hey guys! guess what? I just found that, a few weeks ago, Adafruit published a full guide to hydro dipping your 3D prints and it is definitely a good…
MP Select Mini was Hacked using Reverse Engineering by Robin Reiter
Is this one of the best years for 3D printing? Well, I’m acquainted with some awesome news and I certainly see more people getting in touch with this technology. The 3DP industry is expanding its horizons and as Moore's law established,…
3D Printing – Layer Height Under The Microscope
3D Printed Layer Height And Its Effect On Part Strength And Print Speed
I was participating in an online discussion recently regarding layer height and its effect on part "quality", strength and print speed. Here is a copy of the chart…
PLA Filament Moisture Study: Effect of Moisture on 3D Printer Filament Properties
Moisture influences printability of 3D printing filaments. This PLA filament moisture study shows that even different filament colours influence the printing properties.
PLA (polylactic acid) is a biodegradable 3D printing filament…
How To Give Your 3D Prints A Battle Damaged Metal Finish!
For this tutorial I decided I wanted to recreate the helmet from the latest Batman movie, so I'm going to make a Metal finish on my print. a quick search on Thingiverse brought up the perfect result, You can download the file for yourself…
The Guardian of Techno phobia
The internet has recently seen a resurgence in the yellow journalism of the 1890’s. Just like the newspaper wars between Joseph Pulitzer's New York World and William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal, news sites today are using scare…
