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Interesting BBC Video Demonstration of 3-D Printing

Interesting BBC Video Demonstration of 3-D Printing

A BBC reporter went to a prototyping lab in London — and made a 3-D replica of his face. Continue reading

Printing out the orbital infrastructure

Printing out the orbital infrastructure

3-D printing is going viral. With 3-D fabrication technology at for the desktop, for LEGOs, and for nanoscale materials, it was only a matter of time before the paradigm found its way into space—and corporate science fiction. But this promising technology still has to prove itself in terrestrial infrastructure first. Continue reading

Cupcake CNC Machine Kit

Jakob Lodwick, founder of Vimeo and online entrepreneur, has thrown a lot of money at DIYers Bre Pettis and Zack Hoeken. So much, in fact, that they decided to start a robot company called MakerBot Industries. The company’s first product is the Cupcake CNC machine kit. As it implies, it’s a kit that lets you build your very own CNC machine, thus letting you print out 3-D objects in the comfort of your own home. The kit runs $750, which... Continue reading