Collaborate Disseminate
A triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) certainly sounds like the sort of thing you’d need to graduate from Starfleet Engineering to put together, but it actually operates on the same principle that’s at …read more Continue reading 3D Printing Your Own Triboelectric Generators
One of the best things about hanging around with other hackers is you hear about the little tricks they use for things like 3D printing. But with the Internet, you …read more Continue reading Advanced 3D Printing Tips
What’s better than 3D printing a tank chassis with working tracks? How about 3D printing the entire thing, moving parts and all, as a single piece? That’s [3D Honza]’s PiPBOT-1, …read more Continue reading One-Piece Tank Chassis Pushes Print-in-Place To New Heights
3D printers have come a long way from cranking out things like bottle openers and coat pegs, and [E. Soderberg]’s Print in Place Geared Hinge is a pretty nifty demonstration …read more Continue reading One-piece Geared Hinge Can Take the Weight
Have you ever been about to finish a puzzle, when suddenly you realize there are more holes left than you have pieces? With [Nikolaos’s] 3D printed sliding puzzles, this will …read more Continue reading Never Lose a Piece With 3D Printed Sliding Puzzles
One thing some of us here in the United States have always been jealous of is the WAGO connectors that seem so common in electrical wiring everywhere else in the world. We often wonder why the electrical trades here haven’t …read more
Continue reading Print-in-Place Connectors Aim to Make Wiring Easier
If you ever watched Dr. Who, you probably know that the TARDIS looked like a police call box on the outside, but was very large on the inside. When asked, the Doctor had some explanation of how something can look …read more
While there are many in the 3D-printing community who loudly and proudly proclaim never to have stooped to printing a 3DBenchy, there are far more who have turned a new printer loose on the venerable test model, just to see what it can do. But Benchy is getting a little …read more
Continue reading Print-in-Place Engine Aims to be the Next Benchy
[jcprintnplay] has challenged himself to making Raspberry Pi cases in different ways, and his Fold-a-Pi enclosure tries for a “less is more” approach while also leveraging the strong points of 3D printing. The enclosure prints as a single piece in about 3 hours, and requires no additional hardware whatsoever.
The …read more
Continue reading Folding Raspberry Pi Enclosure Prints in One Piece, No Screws in Sight
If you’ve ever had the good fortune — or, after a shop mishap, the misfortune — to see the insides of a dial indicator, you’ll know the workings of these shop essentials resemble nothing so much as those of a fine Swiss watch. The pinions, gears, and springs within transmit …read more
Continue reading No Assembly Required for this Compliant Mechanism Dial Indicator