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[Martin] of [Wintergatan] is on a quest to create the ultimate human-powered, modern marble music machine. His fearless mechanical exploration and engineering work, combined with considerable musical talent, has been …read more Continue reading Taking Cues From a Gramophone To Make a Better Marble Music Machine
[JanTec Engineering] was fascinated by the idea of using a 3D printer’s hot end to inject voids and channels in the infill with molten plastic, leading to stronger prints without …read more Continue reading Infill Injection Experiment Makes Stronger Parts
[James Sharman] designed and built his own 8-bit computer from scratch using TTL logic chips, including a VGA adapter, and you can watch it run a glorious rotating cube demo …read more Continue reading Homebrew CPU Gets a Beautiful Rotating Cube Demo
One can 3D print with conductive filament, and therefore plausibly create passive components like resistors. But what about active components, which typically require semiconductors? Researchers at MIT demonstrate working concepts …read more Continue reading MIT Demonstrates Fully 3D Printed, Active Electronic Components
OpenSCAD has a lot of fans around these parts — if you’re unaware, it’s essentially a code-based way of designing 3D models. Instead of drawing them up in a CAD …read more Continue reading Belfry OpenSCAD Library (BOSL2) Brings Useful Parts and Tools Aplenty
What would it be like to have to design and build a ventilator, suitable for clinical use, in ten days? One that could be built entirely from locally-sourced parts, and …read more Continue reading New Documentary Details Ventilator Development Efforts During COVID
Disk space is allocated in clusters of a certain size. When a file is written to disk and the file size is smaller than the cluster(s) allocated for it, there …read more Continue reading Make a Secret File Stash In The Slack Space
Bleach is a handy way to mark fabrics, and it turns out that combining bleach with a 3D-printed design is an awfully quick-working and effective way to stamp a design …read more Continue reading Make Custom Shirts With a 3D Print, Just Add Bleach
Bear with us for a moment for a little background. The Rideau Canal Skateway in Ottawa is the world’s largest natural skating rink, providing nearly 8 km of pristine ice …read more Continue reading When Ignoring Spam Loses You an Ice Surfacer Patent
Do you make things, and have you got almost ten minutes to spare? If not, make the time because this video by [PrintLab] is chock-full of healthy and practical design tips. …read more Continue reading Solid Tips for Designing Assistive Technology (Or Anything Else, Really)