Bringing a Game Character to Life with 3D Printing: Interview with James W. Cain
When James W. Cain tweeted a picture of a 3D Printed sculpture portraying Ubin, a character from The Banner Saga, it simply blew our mind. As one of the comments so succinctly stated, “Beautiful work! Really impressed with quality of the printout. Looks so crisp”, it was easy to fall in love with this impressive piece of 3D Printed art. Recently, I had a chance to interview the designer himself and get the story behind this magnificent 3D Printed sculpture. (more…)
How to Design a Raspberry Pi Case for 3D Printing
So you’ve bought a Raspberry Pi but you still need a case to go along with it. You could get a standard case or better yet, you could design something yourself! Before you let your imagination go wild, sit back, relax and check out of these tips and tricks on how to get started on creating and 3D printing your own Raspberry Pi case.
(more…)
A Self-Transforming Lampshade: Welcome to the World of 4D Printing!
ZooM is a classic 3D printed lampshade: probably a perfect match for your dining room. But if you order it from our online shop, you will receive a box with a 3D printed flat pentagon inside. So how can this function as a lampshade? The keyword to uncovering this secret is “4D printing.”
(more…)
9 to 5 Warriors: When You Punch Out, They Come Punching In
Back in the days, we were all crazy about cartoons and waiting eagerly for the next episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles or Masters of the Universe. Many of us are still fond of them today, as they can easily take us back to our childhood. But why stick to classic heroes, if you can create several of your own?
(more…)
The Articulated Cube: A Clever Piece of Engineering Made With SketchUp
Being a professional designer and CAD engineer is awesome and gives you almost boundless possibilities to unleash your creativity. Basically anyone can get creative and design something in 3D. Today, a lot of 3D design applications like SketchUp are free, easy to use and require no prior experience. Need a success story to be inspired?
(more…)
How Many Ways Can You Bring an Aardvark to Life?
Meet the Aardvark, a story about persevering with an idea. For sure many of you had various passions when you were kids. Perhaps you even drew pictures of them (back then we were all great artists, weren’t we?).
(more…)
Meet the designer: Elise Luttik
Meet Industrial Designer Elise Luttik from Amsterdam, founder of eli5e, a design studio specialized in 3D printed designs that will make you smile.
(more…)
The future of 3D printing and Robotics by our guest blogger Michael Overstreet
3d printing is becoming a very powerful tool for robot makers in the present and will become even more important tool in the future. Here are a few of my ideas that I have been dreaming about. (more…)
The Best 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Case Ever!
Check out this 3D printed case ‘Raspberries for everyone’ by Cody Reisdorf. He is the winner of our Raspberry Pi Case Challenge that we organized in cooperation with Autodesk 123D and the Raspberry Pi foundation. Now his winning design is finnally 3D printed, alive and kicking. Simply the best 3D printed Raspberry Pi case we’ve ever seen! Thanks for the participation, Cody! (more…)
3D Printing Chess Pieces & Chess Sets
Jonny Anthony loves chess. And what’s cooler than customizing and 3D printing your own chess set? Read on to learn how to create your own 3D printed chess pieces and take a look at Jonny’s stunning result: a 3D printed chess set in steel! (more…)
