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3D Print Community: High Performance Panel System for Bambu Lab X1C/E 3D Printers

This month’s community support selection is the HPPS Project for Bambu Lab X1C/E machines.

Create It REAL Unveils New Method for Continuous 3D Printing

Create It REAL has developed an incredibly simple method of continuous 3D printing.

Hardware Meets Software: Ulendo’s Approach to High-Speed 3D Printing

I had an interesting chat with Ulendo this week.

Anisotropic Strength Achieved: Plasma Nozzle Promises to Transform FFF 3D Printing

A unique plasma nozzle could revolutionize FFF 3D printing.

Seven Hardware Features That Should Be On Resin 3D Printers

Here are my thoughts on seven completely new features I’d like to see on desktop resin 3D printers.

Our Top 3D Print Stories of 2021, Determined By You

It’s the end of the year, and I wondered which stories gathered the most views by Fabbaloo readers.

You May Soon Upgrade Your 3D Printer To Not Require Supports

Researchers at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) have developed a novel approach to 3D print extrusion that could transform many desktop 3D printers.

Create it REAL Receives Significant Investment

Create it REAL has received an investment of €3.1M (US$3.6M).

Embroidery and 3D Printing: Mending Ways

Charles R. Goulding and Preeti Sulibhavi stitch up a look at 3D printing and embroidery.

Sinterit Cleans Up SLS 3D Printing Operation With 3 New Devices

SLS 3D printing can be a messy endeavor.

Wacom Starts Off 2020 With A $400 Drawing Tablet

Wacom announced the new Wacom One, a handy drawing tablet that may be of use to those doing 3D CAD design.

Book of the Week: Building Open Source Hardware

This week’s selection is “Building Open Source Hardware” by Alicia Gibb.

A Run Through: What’s New In 3D Printing At RAPID + TCT?

Industry expert Todd Grimm set the stage for RAPID + TCT 2019 with a speedy rundown of what’s new in 3D printing.

Fictiv’s Survey On Production

Fictiv released the results of a survey of their manufacturing clients and found some interesting results.

MakerBot Unveils Its New 3D Printer: Meet the Method

MakerBot has just unveiled the Method, a ‘performance’ 3D printer set to bridge the gap between industrial and desktop 3D printing.

BigRep’s Big News: Two New Industrial 3D Printers

BigRep has announced two new MXT-powered industrial 3D printers: the PRO and EDGE.

What’s Happening at Create It REAL?

Create It REAL just received a significant investment.

3D Printer Security Woes Likely To Increase

I’m reading an interesting piece by David Gerwitz at ZDNet, who talks about 3D printers being vulnerable IoT devices.

Here’s Something More Kickstarter Projects Should Do

With the growing list of crowdfunding failures recently, it seems to me that these projects should have been taking steps to provide more assurance to their backers.

One Brilliant Way To Reduce Frustrating 3D Print Failures

Someone has devised a method for performing dynamic error correction on 3D printers to ensure the nozzle is always placed precisely where it should be.

Bowden or Direct? A Primer on Extruder Styles

Two methods of extrusion are typically found on desktop 3D printers these days. Do you know what they are?

Lowe’s Innovation Labs Gets 3D Printing

North American hardware retail giant Lowe’s has set up a way for customers to 3D print customized products.

A Warning For Experimental Filament Users

There’s never been more varied types of plastic filament available for use by 3D printer operators, but could there be a problem?

You’re so intensely interested in 3D printing that you bought yourself a 3D printer. Great! You can design and print objects right in your own home. But then what? The problem then starts. The problem of renewal. Yes, your 3D printer still produces objects for you on demand, but you’re now suddenly aware… Continue reading The Trouble With 3D Printers

Where’s My 3D Print Button? Part 2

Last week we lamented the current state of personal 3D printing workflow: difficult. It’s so difficult we believe many potential mainstream 3D printer owners would never be able to make their way through it. But what’s the answer? What should the experience look like for the majority of future 3D printer owners? Let’s look… Continue reading Where’s My 3D Print Button? Part 2

Where’s My 3D Print Button? Part 1

We’ve all seen this button many times. It’s how you produce 2D paper output, and you’ve used it perhaps all your life, maybe every day. It works because it’s easy. It works because it’s familiar. It works because all the hard stuff is already figured out for you behind the scenes. Enter personal 3D… Continue reading Where’s My 3D Print Button? Part 1

3D Printing Featured On Science Friday

Science Friday’s Flora Lichtman visits 3D Printer designer Jim Smith and his extraordinary new device at his workshop. Erm, his living room. Now we finally understand why Jim decided to include a fume extractor on his printer! Jim explains in basic terms what a 3D printer does and how it works, pointing out the… Continue reading 3D Printing Featured On Science Friday

Definitive Guide Complete?

Make Magazine has produced a complete list of open source hardware projects, ranging in categories from 3D Printing, Arduino, Clocks, Development Platforms, Green Energy, Games, Medical, Robotics and many other areas. The category of interest to us, is of course, 3D printing. There we find the major open projects listed: Contraptor Fab@Home MakerBeam MakerBot RepRap… Continue reading Definitive Guide Complete?

Contraptor!

Tips flowed in this week regarding “Contraptor”, the webchild of Vitaly Mankevich and Riley Porter. According to their About: Contraptor is a DIY open source construction set for experimental personal fabrication, desktop manufacturing, prototyping and bootstrapping. Various Cartesian robots can be quickly assembled from Contraptor and used as a platform for projects such as XY… Continue reading Contraptor!

A Chameleon Tears Down Barriers

A1 Technologies, the folks who make the very inexpensive RapMan 3D printer and more recently an inexpensive 3D scanner, now produce an innovative 3D mouse system: the Chameleon 3D. The Chameleon 3D is actually an effective packaging of software and hardware from other developers. The hardware comes from Novint, whose very unusual Falcon haptic controller… Continue reading A Chameleon Tears Down Barriers