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What if your 3D printer could fit in a box of filament but still rival the build plate size of heavyweights? Enter the Lemontron, a free and open source portable …read more Continue reading If Life Gives You Lemons, Build this Lemontron
Yesterday, Prusa Research officially unveiled their next printer, the Core ONE. Going over the features and capabilities of this new machine, it’s clear that Prusa has kept a close eye …read more Continue reading With Core ONE, Prusa’s Open Source Hardware Dream Quietly Dies
[Morley Kert] had a problem. He’s a big fan of the lovely Fortune Chair from Heller Furniture. Only, he didn’t want to pay $1,175 for a real one. The solution? …read more Continue reading You Wouldn’t Download a Chair…But You Could
It is a fact of life that 3D-printed parts from an FDM (fused deposition modeling) printer have weaknesses where the layers join. Some of this is due to voids and …read more Continue reading Brick Layers: the Promise of Stronger 3D Prints and Why We Cannot Have Nice Things
We’ll go out on a limb here and say that a large portion of Hackaday readers are also boat-builders. That’s a bold statement, but as the term applies to anyone …read more Continue reading All Aboard The Good Ship Benchy
[TenTech]’s Fuzzyficator brings fuzzy skin — a textured finish normally limited to sides of 3D prints — to the top layer with the help of some non-planar printing, no hardware …read more Continue reading Fuzzy Skin Finish for 3D Prints, Now On Top Layers
3D printing has allowed the hobbyist to turn out all sorts of interesting chess sets with either intricate details or things that are too specialized to warrant a full scale …read more Continue reading Transforming Pawn Changes the Game
Warping! It messes up your 3D printed parts, turning them into a useless, dimensionally-inaccurate mess. You can design your parts around it, or try and improve your printer in various …read more Continue reading A Neat Trick To 3D Print With Fewer Warping Issues
Face it, we’ve all at some time or other looked at our hot glue guns, and thought “I wonder if I could use that for 3D printing!”. [Proper Printing] didn’t …read more Continue reading 3D Printing With a Hot Glue Gun
Usually when we present a project on these pages, it’s pretty cut and dried — here’s what was done, these are the technologies used, this was the result. But sometimes …read more Continue reading A Brand-New Additive PCB Fab Technique?