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Welcome our new contributor – Chylld

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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Projector based DIY 3D printer

With the current trend of most DIY/RepRap style 3D printers using FDM (fused deposited material) we were wondering how long it would take people to start playing with different technologies…. So when we saw this thing we were blown away! There’s not a lot of information available apart from what is available on Juniors blog. [...]

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RapMan 3.1 part way through the build

RapMan 3.1 Review – unbox, build, print!

The Australian distributor of the RapMan 3D printers were kind enough to lend us a RapMan Version 3.1 kit to build, review, run some test prints and just get our opinion on the machine. After having recently built a Makerbot Cupcake CNC we still had our tools at the ready and we’re keen to jump [...]

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Software Freedom Day 2010 Melbourne

Software Freedom Day 2010 was held on the weekend a the Melbourne State Library. Tim form OSGUI reported from the event and spoke to a number of the open source community, including Melbourne Hack Space about Arduino & Lego NXT platforms for robotics and 3D Printers including a Maker-Bot/Rip Rap demonstration. Check out the video. [...]

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RepRap Machines – upgrading and building themselves!

I’m not saying that this idea is new as it’s the whole essences of the RepRap project but this is a really nice video. Gavilan Steinman uses his old RapRap Darwin to upgrade the extruder  on the machine to then get a better build quality so that he can print parts to make a new [...]

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Thingiverse – Mouse Trap challange

The guys over at thingiverse are highlighting a bunch of new designs for a mouse trap. The designs are interesting to say the least. However the great part about these designs and thingiverse is that the 3D data is available for download free of charge so if your one of the lucky ones with a [...]

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Statue of Liberty On A MakerBot CupCake CNC

Checkout this cool accelerated video of a MakerBot CupCake CNC 3D printing a version of the Statue of Liberty. Share

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Ellie and Bre Pettis

MakerBot Industries

Bre and Zach from MakerBot talk to Ellie from RocketBOOM about how MakerBot Industries got started and what exactly is MakerBot. Who is this Ellie chick as she is smok’n (just like the bunny in the last video). Share

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