It’s well known that prosthetic limbs usually cost…ahem…an arm and a leg. And sure there have been attempts to bring the cost down over the years. But this new Maker Hand looks like it turn the whole market for prosthetics on its head. The parts including filament, rubber bands etc cost around $30, and it’s made on a conventional home scale 3D printer. The inventor says it takes around one to two days to print, and then another day to…
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Glowforge – make whatever you want with this laser “printer”
3D printers are all the rage but laser cutters are cool too. Glowforge is the laser cutter that does it all. This not so little box can make things with a variety of different materials opening your design process up to endless possibilities. If you can only buy one printer, make it this one, because it can do everything.
Read MoreMatter and Form – the little 3D scanner for your desktop
3D printing is a lot of fun. If your 3D design game is on point, you can make a lot of really cool objects. There are a lot easy to us programs to help people build the things of their dreams. Still, it’s a little difficult to recreate from life. If the object you want to make already exists, why not just scan it in? The Matter and Form is a small scale 3D scanner for your design studio.
Read MoreRoVa4D – the 3D printer that works like a Laserjet
3D printers seemed sort of gimmicky when they hit the market a few years back but now it’s clear the possibilities for them are near endless. Most people are excited about making little models, which is a lot of fun, but you can do more. If you want to be more creative with your printing, the RoVa4D is the 3D printer that blends colors and materials for a true artistic expression.
Read MoreEKOCycle – make the world a better place one 3D print at a time
3D printing is super cool. You can do so much with it. What if you could make the world a cleaner place with every piece of jewelry or tiny figure you make? That’s the goal of the EKOCycle, the 3D printer that that uses recycled plastic to make your creations.
Read MoreiBox Nano – 3D printing in a tiny package, controlled by your phone
We can all agree that 3D printing is one of the coolest things to come out in the last decade. The printers are like the future, they take ideas and literally print them into being. As the technology has become better, consumer models have been popping up all over the place. The iBox Nano is a tiny 3D printer for all of your tiny 3D printing needs.
Read MoreDiscov3ry: game changing add-on for 3D printing lets you print with anything from Nutella to Latex
Do you love food? Do you love fancy food such as cakes decorated so precisely they look like art and feel almost criminal to eat? Me too. So I was incredibly stoked to see that Structur3d Printing has pioneered a way to print with frosting using a 3D printer. Up till now 3D printers have mostly been confined to printing using some kind of plastic only, but not any more.
Read MoreMakerBot Replicator Mini – The Next Gen 3D Printer for Your Home Makes Life Easier
3D printing is hands down one of the coolest recent innovations we’ve yet seen, but one of the hurdles of printing in 3D is that you have to be able to design in 3D, and if you’re the kind of person who can’t draw a straight line, working in the 3rd dimension might be a little troubling. To say the least.
Read MoreZeus – the world’s first all in one 3D printer, copier, scanner
3D printers are definitely not as easy to use as they seem. In fact, if you don’t know how to design something in 3D, chances are you won’t be able to print it with your “shiny” new 3D printer. However the folks over at AIO Robotics may have produced something which will change the way you look at 3D printing. Their upcoming innovation is called Zeus – an all in one 3D printer, copier and scanner which is nothing short…
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