Practice & Makers
YouTuber 3D prints water motor and publishes building instructions
British YouTuber Robert Murray-Smith has presented a DIY mini hydropower plant based entirely on 3D printing. At the center is a kind of Pelton...
Non-planar FDM 3D printing with three or six axes
A special form of 3D printing makes it possible to lay down layers along curved surfaces rather than planar ones. This non-planar approach promises...
Ford 3D Store Offers 3D Printable Car Models
The automotive company Ford has just launched an online store for 3D printable car models by partnering with TurboSquid. Customers can either download one of their...
YouTuber tests strength of different 3D printing infill patterns
In 3D printing, objects can be made significantly lighter and more material-efficient through the use of infill structures on the inside. But how do...
YouTuber builds remote-controlled snow plow with 3D printing technology
The YouTube channel "Ambition Strikes" showed in a new video how a Utility Task Vehicle (UTV) is transformed into a remote-controlled vehicle using 3D...
BoxBotix Modular Robot System Can Be 3D Printed To Be A Plane, Quadcopter Or Car
The BBots developed by BoxBotix is a modular system for radio controlled devices. With the modular BBots you can build the most common R/C vehicles like a...
3D Print Your Very Own RS-LM 2014 Audi R18 E-Tron Quattro RC Racecar
Of course it’s not possible to print an actual car with a desktop-sized 3D printer, but it’s already possible to print RC cars with these....
3dfilemarket Enables You to Customise Your 3D Designs Using 3D Slash
3D model platform 3dfilemarket has teamed up with 3D Slash for users to customise their designs with the easy-to-use 3D modelling software. In the new "Create"...
Math from the Past: 3D Printed Curta Calculator
1938 the Austrian engineer Curt Herzstark has filed a patent for a complex mechanical calculator with the name Curta. From 1947 until the 1970s the...
Stability test: How wall thickness affects 3D-printed parts
The US company Slant 3D tested the stability of 3D-printed cubes of different thicknesses in a YouTube video. The results were astonishing: even thin...
