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Aussie’s manufacturing UAV’s via 3D printing!

date October 18, 2011 comments Comments { 1 }

The CyberQuad is an Australian designed unmanned, electric vertical take-off and landing system (Quadrotor) designed by Cyber technology in WA.  It’s a great example of the power of 3D printing, for the production of end-use-parts and assemblies made directly from 3D CAD data – without tooling. A true direct manufacturing application, the CyberQuad, is produced in [...]

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Home made DLP printer

date August 15, 2011 comments Comments { 0 }

A while back we posted some pictures of parts that were printed on a home made high resolution DLP 3D printer by Junior Veloso. Well it looks as though he has been busy refining his software and printing some serious detailed small parts! From the limited information it looks as though he has some initial [...]

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Welcome our new contributor – Chylld

date July 1, 2011 comments Comments { 1 }

We’d like to welcome a new contributor to www.3D-printers.com.au! Most people will know him as an active member of Thingiverse and also the BFB forums under the avatar ‘Chylld’ however we know him as Jonathan Wong. Jonathan is a very active member of the Rep rap community and has really push the boundries of his [...]

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Affordable 3D Scanning App for iPhone

date June 29, 2011 comments Comments { 0 }

Trimensional is an affordable 3D Scanning iPhone App that was released early 2011. Trimensional enables your iPhone to create 3D scans using only the light from the iPhone’s screen and the front camera. The idea is that you crank up the brightness on your screen, stand very still in a dark room and scan yourself. [...]

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Solar Sand 3D Printer

date June 26, 2011 comments Comments { 1 }

Markus Kayser has developed a 3D printer which harnesses the power of the sun to sinter layers of sand to create 3D parts in glass! Dubbed the Solar-Sinter, the semi automatic 3D printer focuses the energy of the sun through a large fresnel lenes and melts the sand, thus turning it into glass, to form [...]

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N12 – The first 3D printed bikini

date June 13, 2011 comments Comments { 0 }

Girls in Bikini’s and 3D printing… what more could you want! Well that’s exactly what Continuum Fashion have done. Previously Continuum have released an application that allows you to design custom dresses in 3D which are then laser cut from flat 2D panels, the move into 3D printing was just a matter of time. The [...]

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Titanium toothbrush anyone?

date May 17, 2011 comments Comments { 0 }

CSIRO are hosting a design challenge to design a useful titanium product to help show off the new Additive Manufacturing processes popping up all over the globe. If your between the age of 18 and 25 then get your thinking caps on as they have a shiny new Macbook up for grabs (which unfortunately is [...]

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Ceramic 3D printed parts

date May 13, 2011 comments Comments { 0 }

Shapeways are now offering ceramic 3D printing. The finish on these things looks amazing! Share

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Future of 3D printing?

date May 5, 2011 comments Comments { 2 }

Here is a very interesting and entertaining video which discusses the future of 3D printing the impact it may have on the world. I’ wouldn’t say the makerbot is the best 3D printer available but it is definately the cheapest. Share

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Future of Rapid Prototyping

date May 3, 2011 comments Comments { 1 }

Scott Summit introduces students to the world of rapid prototyping Scott Summits talks with students about the current and future state of rapid prototyping.  Scott discusses all the individual elements of rapid prototyping process from 3D scanning to parametric modeling and 3D printing. Scott also points out that not all of these technologies have to [...]

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