Category Archives for 3d Printers
3d Print Your House in a Day
You might be able to 3d print your house sometime in the next decade. Contour Crafting, a company formed by a USC Professor has scaled up the standard 3d printer layout to make a build platform big enough for the … Continue reading
Review of 3d Touch 3d Printer
A high quality build, but for the price, the system takes too much tweaking to get great prints. Priced in the high prosumer range at $3,930 to $4,370, this printer started with from a RepRap model before switching over to … Continue reading
Aluminatus TrinityOne Pre-Order
With a year in development, TrinityLabs is making their TrinityOne 3d printer available for preorder. The TrinityOne 3d Printer has a huge available print volume of a full square foot – 300 x 300 x 300 mm. Its frame is … Continue reading
A 3d Printer In Every House, or in Every Town?
An argument running through the 3d printing news that keeps coming up is whether 3d printing, when it becomes mainstream, will be in every house or in shops. The more people say 3d printers will be in every house, the … Continue reading
Food Safe 3d Printing
Browsing through the open source 3d models on Thingiverse shows many people are interested in printing their own dishware. Cups, plates, even silverware are common models. But most 3d printers produce prints that are not safe for actual foods. At … Continue reading
Outsourcing Your 3d Printing
For many people that want to get into 3d printing, the first question they ask is “Which 3d printer should I buy?” If you want to explore 3d printing as a hobby, this is probably the wrong question. My response … Continue reading
Solidoodle SD1001-A : Best Intro Printer?
The Solidoodle 2 comes fully assembled for $499, and according to previews, prints as well as the Makerbot Replicator. The SD1001-A has a steel frame and can build up to 6 x 6 x 6 inches. From demo pictures, … Continue reading
Stratisys uPrint SE : $15,900
The uPrint SE is the printer of choice for the Department of Justice. They purchased more than 100 of them for educational programs for the STARBASE youth education program. The retail price of each Stratisys uPrint SE: $15,900 and up. The uPrint … Continue reading
Object Connex 500 Price: $250,000
Stratisys is bringing high resolution to 3d printing. Their Object Connex500 prints up to 14 different materials in the same print, on a large build tray – 500 x 400 x 200mm. The multiple materials can be used to highlight different components … Continue reading