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Design and 3D print OP-1 synthesizer stand

Dec.31, 2012 -  Shapeways user Pretty Graffiti designed a 3D printed stand for the OP-1 Synthesizer, a handy accessory that you can raise it up for a more comfortable position. More 

3D printing experiment: 3D printed UAV identification kit 

Dec.29, 2012 -  James Bridle recently made a drone recognition kit, the UAV (unmanned aerial vehicles) Identification Kit 001 with 3D modeling and 3D printing.More 

Build a HEX air robot on a 3D printer

Dec.29, 2012 -   Startup AngelEyes from China is working on a HEX Air Robot project: an open source robotic aircraft with 3D printed components. More

Update: Ford investing in 3D printing with sand, goes digital to increase global efficiency 

Dec.27, 2012 -  Ford is a leader in a new variation on 3D printing technology: 3D printing with sand allows for the creation of casting patterns and cores with multiple printers in-house. More 

3D printed, hand-painted gaming miniatures 

Dec.26, 2012 -  These hand-painted gaming miniatures are 3D printed with white Nylon (WSF) on Shapeways. More 

Build your own mobile Raspberry Pi computer with a 3D printer

Dec.23, 2012 -   The awesome $35 Raspberry Pi provides so many possibilities for hackers and makers. Nathan Morgan, an enthusiastic maker decided to build a mobile Raspberry Pi that he can take wherever he goes. More

Ford to give every engineer a makerbot 3D printer 

Dec.22, 2012 -  Ford is using personal 3D printers for next generation reserach and development. In the video below Zac Nelson of Ford introduced how 3D printer helped with prototype designs of a gearshift. More 

Wilson launched new site for hosting 3D-printed gun files

Dec.22, 2012 -   Following Makerbot took down 3D-printed gun parts blueplans on Thingiverse, Defense Distributed founder Cody Wilson said that they planed to start their own site for hosting 3D printable gun files. More

Emma and her 3D printed 'magic arms' in Google Zeitgeist 2012 Video 

Dec,21, 2012 -  Google, the giant search engine released its annual Zeitgeist video showing "how the world searched" in 2012.  More 

3D printed Christmas cookies and cookie cutters 

Dec.21, 2012 -  You don't need to be a master in baking, all you need to have is a 3D printer! In the video below Ralf Holleis printed out Christmas cookies on a 3D printer. More 

Create an elves workshop on a 3D printer (video)

Dec.21, 2012 -   Obviously T3 got too busy with holiday sales, so they figured out how to get some help for their overloaded work. More

Nice try: First 3D printed LP records  

Dec.20, 2012 -  Amanda Ghassaei, assistant tech editor at Instructables went a step further: she has been trying to print LP records on a professional 3D printer. More 

Thingiverse takes down 3D printable gun parts 

Dec.20, 2012 -  Thingiverse, Makerbot's site has taken down a number of blueprints for gun parts, including the "Reinforced AR-15 Lower Receiver" from gunsmith Michael Guslick aka HaveBlue. More 

3D print your own blossoming lamp for Xmas

Dec.19, 2012 -   Here's a 3D printed blossoming lamp thingiverse user Emmett Lalish designed and printed for this season. The lamp consists two parts, lampshades and stand. More

Smooth test flight with 3D printed flying crawler

Dec.19, 2012 -   The 3D printed flying crawler designed and built by Flappingwing in Japan is a multi-winged RC ornithopter. The 3D model was created in Autodesk 123D and main parts were 3d printed on Shapeways. More

King Richard III's last "resting place" recreated with a 3D printer 

Dec.18, 2012 -  A team from the University of Leicester has reconstructed models of the Blue Boar Inn – where England's King Richard III spent the night before going off to die in the battle of Bosworth through 3D printing technology. More 

"Home for Xmas" thanks you with a 3D printed snow globe featuring your home 

Dec.18, 2012 -  Every year around 75,000 young people in the UK risk spending the festival period on the street. Today, BBH London teamed up with children's charity Barnardo's and launched homeforxmas.org. More 

A revolving Ferris Wheel created on Objet multi-material 3D printer

Dec.18, 2012 -   Objet shared a nice video today, a revolving 3d printed Ferris Wheel made on an Objet Connex500 multi-material 3D printer. It uses rigid white, rigid black and grey digital material combination which is created by mixing black and white. More

3D print your own Advent calendar and Christmas ornaments at home 

Dec.18, 2012 -  Richrap has created his own 3D printed Advent calendar. Inspired by Pleppik, each day Richrap and his kids selected their favorite Christmas things from Thingiverse.. More 

The delicious 3D printed chocolate: last chance to order 

Dec.17, 2012 -  for this seaon, Choc Edge is promoting its new holiday designs: chocolate creations crafted using the latest 3D chocolate printing technology and made with the finest Belgian Callebaut chocolate.  More 

Gravity of Light: an interactive 3D printed LED pixel hat

Dec.16, 2012 -   For hat lovers this is definitely something special: Inspired by gravity and flowing water, Korean designers Younghui Kim and Yejin Cho created an interactive 3D printed hat. More

Create your own 3D printed Emily the Strange with MAQET 

Dec.16, 2012 -  MAQET is a site where you can create your own customised toys - MAQETs. Using MAQET's web-based creation software you can choose from a wide variety of shapes and then add your favourite color.More 

3D printed nylon polymer lamp generates power through rotation

Dec.15, 2012 -   The 3D printed shell of the Momentum light designed by architect Dr. Margot Krasojevic produces an electrical current from kinetic energy. More

Torus: The first iPhone video game to offer 3D printed achievements 

Dec.14, 2012 -  Torus becomes the first iPhone video game to offer 3D printed achievements. Torus 1.1.0 is a free apps for puzzle on iPhone & iPad Games, developed by Mark S. Morris. More 

Bring Second Life jewellery into real world with 3D printing

Dec.14, 2012 -   Maxi Gossamer, an SL artisan who recently discovered 3D printing brought her second life (virtual) jewelry to real life, via Shapeways. More

Can 3D printers make plastic weapons? (+ CNN video) 

Dec.14, 2012 -  To understand this development, you need to understand US gun laws. While there is no conceivable technology know to make parts strong enough to handle the chamber pressures of a firearm (basically the barrel and the breech closing mechanism. More 

Woman's survival kit: Botox Mask, Purse, Gun, Chatelaine, spyglass...made on a 3D printer

Dec.14, 2012 -   Atelier Ted Noten is presenting the new collection ''7 Necessities'' for the first time in its entirety at Design Miami. More

3D print a CheerLights display for Christmas 

Dec.13, 2012 -  raster designed and made his small CheerLight device which he called the CheerLCD to work with the CheerLights project to display the same color of all the CheerLights. More 

Solve a self-designed, 3D-printed Rubik's Cube puzzle (video)

Dec.12, 2012 -   Dane Christianson created a Rubik's Cube inspired puzzle: x-shaped Rubik's cube using CAD and 3D printing. More

Add one-of-a-kind decor with these 3D printed snowflakes 

Dec.11, 2012 -  In 2010 Matters of Grey shared a fun project: hand cut paper snowflake designs with a Star Wars twist. Inspired by these 19 designs, Thingiverse user IHeartRobotics optimized the design and printed one of them in ABS plastics. More 

1,000 different parts, 700 hours of print time on a Makerbot 

Dec.11, 2012 -  This "Mining Habitat Ring World" created by artist Micah Ganske was displayed at the Miami art fairs. Using his Makerbot Replicators, Ganske printed out 1,000 different parts in over 700 hours of print time. More 

Recreating a 3,300 years old ancient statue using 3D printers

Dec.7, 2012 -   Technicians at Harvard's Semitic Museum are attempting to re-create a 2-foot-long ceramic lion that likely flanked an image of the goddess Ishtar in Nuzi. More

Tutorial: How to design and 3D print enclosures with front panels

Dec.7, 2012 -   Following his previous two "How to design and 3D print your own electronics enclosures" tutorial series Landon Cox from Inhald extended his CAD-focused theme and presented a third part of tutorial. More

Ideas wanted for 3D printed advent calendar 

Dec.6, 2012 -  Thingiverse user pleppik designed an advent calendar which has a box for each of the 25 days in December through Christmas. More 

Is this the largest ever 3D printed wrench? (video) 

Dec.6, 2012 -  For showing off how powerful this printer is, Sam Green of Objet made a video of a short workflow of how Objet1000 builds the largest ever adjustable wrench.  More 

Win a 3D printed Ford Fiesta 

Dec.6, 2012 -  To celebrate this, along with the Ford photo competition which offers a chance to win a Ford Fiesta, Ford also teamed up with 3D Creations Lab to offer their photo competition weekly winners their very own piece of futuristic technology. More 

3D print a custom skull iPhone case 

Dec.5, 2012 -  Arcier has created two 3D printed skull iPhone cases inspired by one of his artistic project in 2007 titled "Degeneration", which was based on a face reduction algorithm. More 

How Harman uses Arduino and 3D printing to build better speakers (video) 

Dec.5, 2012 -  Charles Sprinkle, systems engineer at Harman shows to Robert Scoble in the interview below, how open sources helps him to make his job effectively and also be able to share his ideas with others. More 

Making soil science equipment using 3D printing 

Dec.5, 2012 -  In a paper published online this week in the Soil Science Society of America Journal, a team of researchers headed by Philippe Baveye explored the potential of manufacturing soil science equipment using 3D printing. More 

3D Systems got removed from "Join a Revolution" campaign on Kickstarter 

Dec.4, 2012 -  While we are all waiting to see how Formlabs and Kickstarter react to the lawsuit, one of the 3D printing movement's most recognized and successful artists, Joshua Harker took his step. More 

Tested: 3D printed gun breaks within 6 shots 

Dec.4, 2012 -  Cody Wilson, Defense Distributed's spokesman and co-founder took the popular printable lower out for a test to see how many shots it can last. More 

MIT Grads test print smart baby spoon on Makerbot 

Dec.3, 2012 -  Feeding baby is big challenge for parents, you get often messy baby faces, messy table and floor. Two MIT grads came up with a solution: They reinvent a new kind of baby spoon: Spuni. More 

Makerbot featured in the new music video of Will.i.am and Brittney Spears

Dec.2, 2012 -  Aficionados of Makerbot 3d printers may be interested to find one featured in the new music video by Will.i.am and Brittney Spears which was released on Wednesday. More 

Getting a game on the table with 3D printed castle construction kit 

Dec.1, 2012 -  William and Jeremy have spent 12 years designing and developing Castle!, a set of stackable, textured castles and buildings for 25-28mm scale tabletop gaming, a lego-like modular construction system. More 

3D printing a new ear

Dec.1, 2012 -   Ernst Jan Bos, a Dutch medical researcher at VUMC, Amsterdam is using a Ultimaker 3D printer to print 'scaffold' upon which new human body parts may one day be grown. More

Ultralight 3D-printed beams could bear heavy loads 

Dec.1, 2012 -  The "spongy" bone found near joints is strong but light. Yong Mao of the University of Nottingham, UK and colleagues discovered that this fractal patterns that is self-similar on all length scales... More 

3D-print your own transformer (video)

Nov.30, 2012 -   Although for many people 3D printing is still an elusive concept, the technology is continuously evolving and we are moving closer towards a world where more and more complicated parts are printed on a 3D printer. More

Robot plays bass guitar? Check out this partially 3d-printed MechBass! (video) 

Nov.30, 2012 -  Engineering student James McVay created a project for his fourth year at Victoria University of Wellington: MechBass, a robotic bass guitar. More 

Replace a broken IKEA lamp with a 5$ 3D printed one 

Nov.30, 2012 -  Back in Jun. 2012, industrial designer Samuel Nelson Bernier from Quebec created some beautiful lampshade using a small UP! 3D printer from PP3DP aiming to explore 3D printing as a DIY tool for upcycling.  More 

3D-printed satellite successfully tested in near-space conditions 

Nov.29, 2012 -  Scientists from the University of Rome and University of Bologna recently have designed and launched a space-ready, 3D printed CubeSat. More 

WSU researchers 3D-prints parts from moon rocks (video)

Nov.29, 2012 -   Researchers at Washington State University recently demonstrated how to fabricate parts using 3D printer and moon-like material in Rapid Prototyping Journal. More

The world's first 3D printed weapons to begin testing by end of year 

Nov.26, 2012 -  According to Guardian's report, Defense Distributed, the company behind the project of creating the world's first printable gun, claimed 3D 'Wiki Weapon' guns could go into testing in the coming months. More 

3D print basic lab supplies at 1/243rd the cost

Nov.25, 2012 -   Recently for one of their research the lab have to pay more than $300 for six gel combs from a supplier. They cost $51 each. More

Make your own 3D-printed quadcopter  

Nov.24, 2012 -  Adam Polak, founder of Polakium Engineering, documented his recent project: a super cool Micro Quadcopter R2. More 

Using 3D scanning and 3D printing to restore a historic steam locomotive

Nov.23, 2012 -   One of the strengths of 3D printing is its ability to make the conservation and restoration of the ancient artifacts. Folks at jaggeree have been using emerging technology to help... More

Tutorial: How to design and print your own electronics enclosures

Nov.22, 2012 -   How to design and print your own electronics enclosures? Landon Cox from Inhald 3D made a series of articles showing how to create a clam-shell style enclosure using ViaCAD 3D CAD tool and 3D printing. More

How to get a ship in a bottle? 3D print it! (video) 

Nov.22, 2012 -  In BBC's recent Newsnight program, Paul Webber of Tri-Technology, distributor of Objet 3D printers in the UK, tried to explain to presenter Jeremy Paxman how a 3D printer worked. More 

MIT's 3D printed metamaterial lens could improve satellite and molecular imaging 

Nov.20, 2012 -  Isaac Ehrenberg, an MIT graduate student in mechanical engineering, has now fabricated a three-dimensional, lightweight metamaterial lens that focuses radio waves with extreme precision.  More 

Huddle: Stylish 3D printed lamp features a miniature cityscape 

Nov.17, 2012 -  Dutch designer David Graas showed his 3D printed lamp Huddle featuring a miniature cityscape at this year's Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven. More 

Walking bio-bots created on a 3D printer

Nov.15, 2012 -   They're soft, biocompatible, about 7 millimeters long – and, incredibly, able to walk by themselves. Miniature "bio-bots" developed at the University of Illinois are making tracks in synthetic biology. More

Dutch artist uses 3D printer to produce his own skeleton

Nov.15, 2012 -   Dutch sculptor Caspar Berger (1965), best known for his self-portraits, is using CT scanners and a 3D printer to create a new series of sculptures: Skeleton. More

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