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As widespread as 3D printing with stereolithography (SLA) is in the consumer market, these additive manufacturing (AM) machines are limited to a single UV light source and the polymerization of …read more Continue reading Dual-Wavelength SLA 3D Printing: Fast Continuous Printing With ROMP And RFP Resins
[MakerSpace] wanted to 3D print an RFID card holder. On one side is a slot for a card and on the other side has recesses for the RFID antenna. They …read more Continue reading Manual Supports for 3D Printing
While 3D printer hardware has come along way in the past decade and a half, the real development has been in the software. Open source slicers are constantly improving, and …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Streaming Solution Unlocks Webcam Features
Most of the time FDM 3D printing involves laying down layers of thermoplastics, but the layer lines also form the biggest weakness with parts produced this way. Being able to …read more Continue reading Still Up and Coming: Non-Planar FDM 3D Printing With 3 or 6 Axes
The usual way to put a durable threaded interface into a 3D print is to use a heat-set insert, but what about other options? [Thomas Sanladerer] evaluates a variety of …read more Continue reading Alternate Threaded Inserts for 3D Prints
The cassette is one of the coolest music formats ever, in that you could chuck them about with abandon and they’d usually still work. [Chris Borge] recently decided to see …read more Continue reading 3D Printing a Cassette Is Good Retro Fun
If you look at [Proper Printing’s] latest video — see below — you’ll immediately get the idea behind his latest printer. There are two heads on two separate gantries, which, …read more Continue reading 3D Printer Hot Off the Griddle
Over the couple of decades or so since it started to be available at an affordable level, 3D printing has revolutionized the process of making custom objects. But as anyone …read more Continue reading Wear Testing Different 3D Printer Filaments
When the people of Earth set up bases on the moon, you can imagine that 3D printing will be a key enabling technology. Of course, you could ship plastic or …read more Continue reading 3D Printing with (Ersatz) Moon Dust
When the people of Earth set up bases on the moon, you can imagine that 3D printing will be a key enabling technology. Of course, you could ship plastic or …read more Continue reading 3D Printing with (Ersatz) Moon Dust