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August 1, 2013 Andy Cush

It was only a matter of time before a mainstream retailer dipped its toes into 3D printing, but it still feels like a big step. UPS announced that six of its San Diego outposts would get in-store 3D printers for customer use, with more cities being added to the program “in the near future.” Significantly, […]

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July 30, 2013 Andy Cush

DFA, in this case, stands for “Distributed Flight Array,” but it’s hard not to think “Death From Above.” The acronym refers to a fleet of partly 3D-printed drones that, among other things, have ground mobility, and can detect each other’s presence, then form into a larger, modular unit. Once together, the individual robots’ propellers work […]

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July 25, 2013 Andy Cush

You’ve seen fully-3D-printed pistols and automatic rifles with 3D-printed magazines; now, here’s a rifle made entirely of 3D-printed parts. And it works… kind of. In the above video, a YouTube user identified only as ThreeD Ukulele fires his creation, the first of its kind. To the casual observer, it looks like everything goes as planned, but […]

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July 22, 2013 Julia Dawidowicz

A new project from McGill University’s Input Devices and Music Interaction Lab allows users to create sounds simply by moving and touching their own bodies. These “prosthetic digital instruments” act as extensions of the human body, and were created by  a 3D printer. “The goal of the project was to develop instruments that are visually striking, utilize […]

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July 9, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Starting this summer, New York University will be hosting its very own intensive 3D printing class. Throughout the length of the course participants will learn the fundamentals of this emerging technology in addition to the capabilities of different types of printers and material properties. Turning creative ideas and designs into realistic models has been made possible by […]

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June 26, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Brooklyn’s MakerBot is not the largest 3D printing company in the world, but its efforts to transform a relatively niche, industrial technology into a genuine mainstream revolution — in which regular people can design and print physical objects as easily as they now print photos — have made it the most visible avatar of the […]

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June 12, 2013 Andy Cush

As the hubbub surrounding 3D-printed guns reaches fever pitch, one New York City Councilman is pushing legislation that would heavily regulate the weapons. The bill, which will be introduced today by Brooklyn Democrat Lew Fidler, would ban manufacture of the guns without a gunsmith license and require owners to give their weapons an ID number and […]

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May 31, 2013 Andy Cush

Pirate 3D, a startup out of Sinagpore, raised $200,000 dollars in just hours on Kickstarter yesterday. Why? Because it promises to make 3D printing more accessible than ever, with a printer called the Buccaneer that will retail for just $347 and could begin shipping as early as December. Pirate 3D also hopes to lower the barrier […]

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May 30, 2013 Kyle Chayka

Still freaking out about NASA’s latest efforts to 3D print a pizza, there’re even sweeter developments in the emerging technology. It is now possible to 3D print with sugar as a medium. New micro-design firm the Sugar Lab originally intended to 3D print an entire birthday cake for a friend. Due to their initial failed attempts, the team decided to compromise […]

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May 28, 2013 Marina Galperina

Just when you think everything that could be 3D-printed has been 3D-printed and every “Unknown Pleasures”-related artwork has been arted, here’s a 3D-printed “Unknown Pleasures”-related art work. It’s perfect. Michael Zoellner intricately adjusted the file specifications to get the model just right: “I even tried to visualize PSR B1919+21’s waveforms, but in the end I spent an evening tracing the waves by […]

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