Category 3D Printers

CraftBot 3D Is Another Take On Making An Affordable, Accessible 3D Printer

screen-shot-2014-07-09-at-1-50-18-pm[1] You wait ages for an affordable 3D printer and then two come along at once… Yesterday we covered Mota 3D‘s Kickstarter campaign to raise $100,000 to get a fully featured, high-res RRP $600 3D printer to market. Today meet CraftBot 3D, whose makers are seeking $40,000 via Indiegogo to make an “easy to use affordable” 3D printer. How affordable? It starts at $399 for […]

A 3D Printer That Turns Coke Bottles Into Whatever You Can Imagine

A 3D Printer That Turns Coke Bottles Into Whatever You Can Imagine Star Trek’s replicators were not only able to produce any food or products our far-off descendants wanted, they were also able to make it from any kind of waste products. It was the ultimate recycling scenario, one that the new Ekocycle Cube 3D Printer hopes to emulate by using a new filament made in part from recycled plastic […]

3D Print Head Makes It Easier To Print Nutella

3D Print Head Makes It Easier To Print Nutella As a man who loves things that come out of tubes, I am excited about the Discov3ry Extruder. Designed as an add-on to popular 3D printers, the system is essentially a plunger connected to a nozzle that squirts out pastes of various types including icing, Nutella, spackle, and silicone. The product just launched on Kickstarter and has […]

Tinkercad Raises $1 Million, Aims To Popularize 3D Printing

tinkercad-plane-small-window Tinkercad, a startup that aims to introduce browser-based 3D printing CAD to the masses, has landed $1M in seed funding from True Ventures, Jaiku founder Jyri Engestrom, Delicious founder Joschua Schachter, Eghosa Omogui and Taher Haveliwala. The company’s mission is to ‘reach and teach’ a wide audience on the use of CAD software and creating ‘fun and meaningful’ […]