Desktop Factory: Our Product MKS DS470 Digital Servo 2.37kg / .089sec / 10.9g <div class="noscript"> JavaScript is turned off in your web browser. Turn it on to take full advantage of this site, then refresh the page. </div> Globalwarehouse Page 1 of 10 Bargain Bin BESTOFFER! My History Bargain Bin Items CircuitHub 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. 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] Prosthetics As Fashionable As They Are Durable [Image credit: Bespoke Innovations] Sugar That’s Sweet For The Eyes, Too [Image credit: The Sugar Lab]
RepRap replicates 100% This story in Computerworld is a couple weeks old, and I should be working harder to keep up. Vik Olliver, a RepRap hacker in New Zealand (and probably the hardest-working RepRap hacker in the world), has now fabricated all the parts of the RepRap except the Z flag, which can be cut out of the side of a beer can. This includes only the parts that it makes sense to print on a RepRap, so it doesn't include stepper motors, nuts and bolts, pieces of metal and wood (e.g. threaded rods). I myself am still drooling a bit over some of the hobbyist CNC stuff. I was thinking a bit last night about how to drive those steppers, since the offerings on eBay don't include the drive electronics. It occurs to me that I've never posted the Sourceforge download page for the RepRap design files.
The Worlwide List of Open Source Hardware Online Stores Latest update: May 21st 2013. Thanks everyone for your comments! Don’t spend any more time browsing desperately the internetz to find parts for your RepRap, Arduino kits or local sensors and PCBs distributors for your new project. I put together this worldwide list of online stores selling open source hardware. There is a big chance your country is in it and that you will finally find your favourite local online store to get open source electronics, robotics, parts, kits, materials and supplies for your hardware projects. Leave a comment below the post if you own an online store that is not in the list or if you know a great online resource that should be in it. A world map made of old motherboards ©Susan Stockwell 2012. Detail of Susan Stockwell’s map. a2aPrinter: RepRap 3D printers ABRA Electronics Aztec MCU Prototyping BC-Robotics Canada Robotix Cana Kit Creatron Inc. DIIGIIT Robotics eckertech: RepRap parts and printers eWerksonline Lee’s Electronic MixShop Proto Advantage RobotShop RP Electronics
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. 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...
Board Forge | Electronics – from art to part 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. I'm not sure what the spec is here.
Dragon Innovation | We help entrepreneurs succeed.. 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
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