September 27, 2010 
MakerBot, creators of the Cupcake CNC 3D printer have just announced their latest offering, The Thing-O-Matic. Its basically a Cupcake CNC with an automated build platform that allows you to build part after part after part with out having to attend to the machine when each part finishes. This is a great offering considering how long these things take to print decent sized parts.
New MakerBot – Thing-O-Matic
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.
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 RepRap Mendel. Get it? Anyway just watch the video its more fun!!
MakerBot Mods – Production Line
This is a cool way to turn a MakerBot into a production line. Normally your restricted to as many parts as you can nest within the small cupcake size built platform, but by adding this cool convey-belt system many many parts are able to be printed one after the other. It looks like the MakerBot Cupcake CNC is taking the home factory into full production.
What can be made on a 3D Printer?
What can be made on a 3D printer, or should we be saying what can’t be made on a 3D printer. The list of what has been made on a 3D printer gets longer and longer everyday and with the mainstreaming of affordable 3D printing systems such as the RapMan 3.1 this isn’t going to stop anytime soon. Continue Reading →
Affordable 3D Printer – RapMan 3.1
The RapMan 3.1 was recently award the BETT Award for Best Digital Device at the 2010 BETT show – the world’s largest Technology Education event. Its great to see this type of technology getting so much attention from the Education industry and it makes me wish I had access to devices like affordable 3D printers when I was at school. By the time these kids finish school, affordable 3D printers will be main stream devices and a common site in every house and office…I hope!!
“I’d be a little concerned if I owned a toy producing factory right about now!”
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Amazing 3d printed lights
Materialise by .MGX has an awesome range of lights and furniture designed by some very interesting designers from all over the world. The thing that sets MGX apart from other lighting and furniture companies is that all their products at 3D printed! Thats right, everything you see on their website is printed using various techniques.
Scott Summit talks about the future of 3D printing
Scott Summit is an Industrial Designer who runs his own design firm in San Francisco. He has been involved with design from the introduction to 3D CAD right through to current technologies such as 3D printing and 3D scanning. He gives a very insightful presentation on the unlimited possibilities that 3D printing opens up as a manufacturing process. He’s designs for prosthetic legs are amazing! Continue Reading →
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 3D printer or Rep Rap machine you can print them out and see if they work! Continue Reading →
Factory of the future
Formero recently put on an event titled “Factory of the Future” which travelled around Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. Intrigued by the title I curiously went along to the Melbourne event hoping I’d walk into a room with shiny white walls, magical sliding doors, flouro illuminated control panels and sexy female assistants in lyca body suits straight out of Star Trek! Well… Continue Reading →
