Desktop Factory: Our Product 3D Print a Protein: Modeling a Molecular Machine This instructable was inspired by a great walkthrough by Jessica Polka over at I wanted to give it greater exposure to the layman, so I'd like to give credit where credit is due! Enjoy. Atoms. But… I hope to intrigue you just enough with this Instructable to turn around and take one last look at the world of molecules and proteins in a more modern and accurate way, and appreciate the awesome world of little molecular machines that come together and make life happen. Hands on experiences and demonstrations are the cornerstone of good teaching and effective learning. At a relatively low price point compared to subtractive fabrication and injection molding, and a high degree of customization relative to commercially available molecular models, 3d printing makes a hands on learning experience readily available today. Get ready to have some fun!
The Most Incredible 3-D Printed Things We’ve Ever Seen ⚙ Co The levees have broken for 3-D printing, and the resulting deluge of printing-concepts-on-the-cheap is flowing faster than we can gather. The best of these rise to the surface for their innovating predictions of a faster/safer/healthier future. A Robotic Hand That Doesn’t Cost An Arm And A Leg Teen engineer Easton LaChappelle created his first robotic hand out of Legos, fishing wire, and surgical tubing--a feat that earned him 3rd place at the Colorado Science Fair. More importantly, it introduced him to a young girl who was born without an arm and needs new prostheses as she grows, which cost a hefty $80,000 per arm. Speaking at TEDxMileHigh last month, LaChappelle presented the arm, which features as much motion and almost as much strength as a human arm and costs just $400. [Image credit: TEDxMileHigh] Kowabunga, Customized MADE boards, based in Chicago, is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new production process for custom, 3-D-printed “SmartBoards.” [Image credit: MADE, LLC]
3D Printed Camera : OpenReflex The Open Reflex, a research about desktop 3D printing, open design and hacking.100% Open-Source !Fell free to copy, understand, improve then share again ! RIGHT NOW ON KISSKISSBANKBANK (french Kickstarter-like) ! Help me to make an improved V2 ! Pledge here : OpenReflexV2 ! The OpenReflex is an Open-Source analog camera with a mirror Viewfinder and an awesome finger activated mechanic shutter (running ~ 1/60°s). The Thingiverse copy is online, if you wanna share your remixed version. The WIP is available on my blog : [fr] This project is the continuation of my 3D-Printed Pinhole Box I made 2 years ago with an first gen Makerbot. I'd like to buy one ? For the 3D-Printing Contest : This camera is the result of my graduation project, i made it using my school's 3D printer. For the Epilog Contest : For this project I was lucky enough to have 3D Printer at my disposal.
Alternative Print Surface | Solidoodle Tips I’ve always had trouble with ripping my Kapton tape. Prints are can be removed easily, without damaging the tape if the print bed cools down, but it takes so long to heat up, I hate to let it cool too much. Also, if I want to cancel a print and restart it right away with tweaked settings, I’m too impatient to cool it down first. The solution is to forget the Kapton altogether. I went to a frame store and had a two pieces of glass cut to 6″ (a hardware store might be able to to this for you). The great thing about using glass, is that when the print is done I can take the glass off and let it cool on the table without needing to turn off the heat. The problem with covering the aluminum with glass is that you can’t get to the leveling screws. Like this: Like Loading...
Hot Pop Factory's 3D-Printed Jewelry Our love and admiration for Hot Pop Factory and their 3D printing skills is well documented (here and here), and the Toronto-based duo behind the brand, Bi-Ying Miao and Matthew Compeau, continue to push the envelope with 3D printing and their mission of designing collections of geometric goodness, including one of the latest that 3D prints wood. Lucky for us, they’ve agreed to walk us through the process of creating their recently launched, one of a kind collections, Boreal and Platonix, in this month’s Deconstruction. Digital sketches of the Boreal Pendant design – with variations that are algorithmically generated. Each Boreal pendant variation is made on a 3D printer using a composite material consisting of recycled cherry wood and polymer. Each pendant’s form is defined by a soft curvature and heat-induced striations which, like fingerprints, are unique to every piece. After the 3d printing process, each piece is hand-finished. Three variations of the Boreal Necklace
Thumbscrew to level bed from beneath (Page 1) — STL Sharing & Print Showoff — SoliForum - 3D Printing Community Trying to see a gap of 0.010 under a straight edge is not easy. When I put the straight edge from near left to far left, I can put a piece of paper under the straight edge and move it almost completely from front to back, so there are "lips" on the front and back edge. That is the only thing that I can detect using your suggestion. In particular, I cannot detect the 0.010 problems across the back. I bumped my bed temperature up from 85 to 95, and that has allowed me to get larger pieces to stick, although I believe that I am relying on the adhesion on the front, along with the structural integrity of the piece, to keep everything in place. It looks as if the back of the parts is not sticking very well. I'm not sure what the spec is here.
1: 3-D printed prosthetics | 9 Ways 3-D Printing Makes The World Better You’ve heard it before: 2011 2012 2013 is the year of 3-D printing. The future is here! The individual will wrench manufacturing power from the global industrial complex! Basement hobbyists, programmers, and nerds unite! Sounds great, right? On the other hand, scientists, surgeons, and other professionals and specialists have made significant headway in applying 3-D printing as a truly useful--not just diversionary--technology. So what happens when you mix the consumer-driven approach of the former with the social, humanist imperative of the latter? Prosthetics is the first field where advances like this come to mind, and most of the following nine print-for-good projects explore the subject in new ways. Take the Robohand, the Luke Skywalker-like appendage designed by a Washington-based mechanical engineer and prop designer in collaboration with a South African woodworker who lost four fingers of his right hand in an accident.
Printed 3D prosthetics Archives for the category: 3D printed prosthetics April 15, 2014 Carpenter who cut off his fingers makes 'Robohand' with 3-D printer Richard van As lost his fingers in a carpentry accident and finds help online. After days of scouring the Internet he couldn't find anywhere to buy a functional prosthetic finger and he was astonished at the cost of prosthetic hands and limbs which began in the tens of thousands of dollars. Read full article. emily | 9:06 AM | permalink March 26, 2014 Neurosurgeons successfully implant 3D printed skull A 22-year-old woman from the Netherlands who suffers from a chronic bone disorder -- which has increased the thickness of her skull from 1.5cm to 5cm, causing reduced eyesight and severe headaches -- has had the top section of her skull removed and replaced with a 3D printed implant. Read full article. emily | 11:33 PM | permalink ‘Printing’ your facial feature... for as little as £150 Read full article emily | 8:56 AM | permalink March 12, 2014 Read more. March 4, 2014