Everyone needs a vise! Makers, fixers, designers, artists… if you’re out there expressing your creativity, The Maker’s Vise can improve your workflow. www.makervise.com Speed The Maker’s Vise head glides effortlessly along its low-friction track. Once in position, just tighten the hex screw to clamp your objects. Use a short handle for low-torque and high-speed, or […]
Fab Lab Hub has secured special discounts on 3D Printlife’s innovative new environmentally-friendly filaments for Fab Labs and associated organizations within the Fab Lab Network. In addition, proceeds from filament sales go to help fund its non-profit work with Enable, Limitless Child International, and more. “Fab Lab Hub is thrilled to partner with 3D Printlife,” says […]
In order to face disability, either patients or caregivers become Makers. One goal: find innovative and accessible solutions for day to day challenges. Inspired by a successful maker project by Fabio Gorrrasi, who designed and prototyped a tutor for his daughter suffering from SMA, Sanofi Genzyme launched the contest MaketoCare, focused to celebrate ideas helping to improve […]
MetalFil – Ancient Bronze and MetalFil – Classic Copper are the latest PLA-based filament with a content of approximately 80% metal, available from Dutch 3D printing filament distributor Formfutura. This incredible high filling with metal powders enables every FDM 3D printer user to 3D print metal objects which are almost indistinguishable from genuine bronze and copper. […]
The Developer’s Kit for the World’s first low cost embedded electronics 3D printer is now shipping. Developed by a Harvard team led by bioprinting technologies expert Prof. Jennifer Lewis, and announced to the world in 2015, the Voxel8 extrusion 3D printer was welcomed by an enthusiastic response to the vision of enabling functional additive manufacturing with […]
On May 31, the EU institutions are hosting the first-ever Institutional EU Maker Faire, which will feature Makers, innovators, and entrepreneurs of all ages who are using cutting-edge tools to bring their ideas to life. Event co-organized by Startup Europe, an initiative of Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology (CNECT) and the EU […]
We continuously hear about 3D printing and about how cool it is, but have you understood what it really is? How is it possible to print real objects? Well, if you are asking yourself this questions and you want to learn more, an online course on 3D printing might just be the best solution for you! […]
When you consider which media ride the hype and which ones can create it, Motherboard, Vice’s tech website, certainly belongs to the second type. The same is true about knowing when to stop (riding the hype) and an article by Motherboard’s Angela Chen shows that that time has come for consumer 3D printing. The good […]
Ever since the low cost 3D printing industry exploded as a consumer phenomenon (because it has, hype or no hype), it became clear that some of the most fascinating and important applications were in the care for small groups of people with specific requirements. In few of these the benefits have been clear than in […]
The Toulouse FabLab ARTILECT continues to expand and a new component – ARTILECT LAB – was recently created to meet new professional requirements by accompanying the emergence of innovative technological projects. For the occasion, I was asked to create a 3D Voice Print work that would be revealed to the public during the inauguration ceremony of the […]
