Schlagwort: Printables
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Weekend Project: Create a 3D Printed Pocket Microscope from E-Waste
Reading Time: 4 minutesHave an ancient DVD or CD drive collecting dust in your garage? You can use your 3D printer and a recycled lens to create an e-waste pocket microscope. For those of us living in the modern world, it’s hard to imagine surviving without the electronics that have become such an integral part…
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Weekend Project: Make Your Garden Glow with 3D Printed LED Flowers
Reading Time: 4 minutesWant to give your 3D printer the green thumb? Autodesk and Instructables content creator Becky Stern shares a project on how to make 3D printed light-up flowers with LED lights. FDM desktop 3D printing has opened up a new world of possibilities when it comes to making customizable and decorative objects. By…
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Weekend Project: Five Things to 3D Print for Your Cinco De Mayo Celebrations
Reading Time: 4 minutesAre you getting ready to celebrate the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo this weekend? Prep for the festivities, which usually entail endless margaritas, music, and food, with some of these Cinco de Mayo-themed 3D prints! Today is May 5th, and while that might seem like an ordinary day to a majority…
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Weekend Project: Create Your Own 3D Printed LED Mason Jar Lanterns
Reading Time: 4 minutesInstructables content creator Becky Stern shares her latest 3D printing project: LED Mason Jar Lanterns. This beginner-level project will help you improve your design and DIY skills, and you’ll have some lovely new lanterns to light up your home! If there’s one type of container that has become synonymous with the stereotypical…
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Weekend Project: Shred the Streets with Your Own 3D Printed Longboard
Reading Time: 3 minutesLulzbot shows us how to build a fully functional longboard using 3D printing technology. You can follow along with their surprisingly simple instructions or use them as a basis to build your own board. Ever want to use your 3D printer to create a functional mode of transportation? On today’s edition of…
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Gramazon: Turn Your Amazon Echo Dot Into a Gramophone with 3D Printing
Reading Time: 3 minutesRecently purchased an Amazon Echo Dot but not in love with its eerie futuristic attitude? Maker Baard Fleistad has created the Gramazon, a 3D printable gramophone attachment to give your AI device a 1920s makeover. Small, black, and round, the Amazon Echo Dot is an inconspicuous addition to the household, that is until it…
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Weekend Project: 3D Print a Mechanical Hummingbird
Reading Time: 4 minutesIt’s time to leave the nest and make yourself a stunning and challenging DIY desk ornament. Maker Greg Zumwalt has created a complex 3D printed mechanical hummingbird-themed automata toy–and you can too. One of the many advantages of 3D printing is its ability to manufacture complex geometries in a single print. But…
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Weekend Project: 3D Print Your Own Animated Physics Toy
Reading Time: 3 minutesLooking for an awesomely interactive project to 3D print this weekend? The Ruiz Brothers and Phillip Burgess have shared Animated LED Sand, a DIY physics toy featured on Adafruit. Although the laws of physics are an integral part to our understanding of the nature and universe that surrounds us, learning about Newton’s…
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Weekend Project: How to Properly Polish & Oxidize Your Metal 3D Prints
Reading Time: 4 minutesMetal 3D printing filaments are perfect for busts, figurines, and other 3D models. But in order to achieve that true metal look, you have to know how to properly post-process your metal 3D print. This weekend, get familiar with polishing and oxidizing techniques that will help your 3D print shine. There are a…
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Weekend Project: 3D Printed Mini Bluetooth Speakers
Reading Time: 4 minutesEver wanted to use your 3D printer to create the ultimate speaker box? Coder and tinker Yasthil Bhagwandeen shares a new Instructables project on how to build your very own 3D Printed Mini Bluetooth Speakers. Now that sounds cool… 3D printing technology is disrupting how a wide range of consumer goods are produced,…
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Weekend Project: 3D Print Your Own NERF Thirst Zapper Gun From Fallout 4
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith just a spring and a 3D printer, Croatian digital artist and maker Vedran Marjanovic Wekster shows you how to create a NERF-ified version of the Thirst Zapper gun from the video game series Fallout. In the post-apocalyptic setting of the critically acclaimed video game Fallout 4, the main character– referred to as “Sole…
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Open Source 3D Printed Clip-On Microscope For Smartphones
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is an open source design for a smartphone camera microscope which can be customized, downloaded and 3D printed. A team of researchers at RMIT University in Australia have developed a 3D printable clip-on microscope for smartphones. The design of the microscope has been shared on the Centre for Nanoscale BioPhotonics website.…
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Weekend Project: 3D Printing Sticks for PLA Hot Glue Gun
Reading Time: 4 minutesWho needs a 3D printer when you have a hot glue gun? A new Hackaday project from Donald Papp shows us how to use molten PLA filament to glue 3D printed objects together. When 3D printing ambitiously sized projects, hot glue guns come in handy as a tool to join two separate…
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Weekend Project: 3D Print Your Own RetroPie Nintendo Switch
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe Nintendo Switch games console is an undeniable success. But, retailing for a few hundred dollars, its does require a significant chunk of change. Why not build your own for a fraction of the cost instead? Here’s how (disclaimer: the PiSwitch will not play Nintendo Switch games). Home hackable gaming has never…
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Weekend Project: 3D Printed Harry Potter Spectrespecs with LED Lights
Reading Time: 4 minutesEight-year-old maker Purple Oranji turns Adafruit NeoPixel goggles into a pair of 3D printed Spectrespecs, the zany light-up shades featured in the Harry Potter movies. This weekend project is the perfect way to show your kids that a 3D printer is just as extraordinary as a magic wand. When author J.K. Rowling…
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3D Print a Universal Cable Fix to Repair any Broken Cables
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re faced with a broken cable, maker Marius Taciuc has a 3D printed enclosure solution. Although can’t beat a replacement cable, it’s a great short-term universal cable fix. Cables are fragile. They can be cut, ripped apart, or — most commonly — have a loose connection. Most makers just use just some…
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Weekend Project: A $20 DIY Heated DryBox for 3D Printing Filament Storage
Reading Time: 3 minutesWant to keep your filament in tip-top shape? Engineer and 3D printing enthusiast RichRap shows us how to create DIY Heated DryBox for 3D Printing filament for under $20. No matter how finely tuned your 3D printer is, the quality of your prints are highly dependent on the state of the filament you’re…
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Weekend Project: 3D Print Your Own Mechanical Laser Show!
Reading Time: 3 minutesLooking for a weekend DIY project? Check out this awesome 3D printed hand-powered mechanical laser show created by software developer Evan Stanford. Is your 3D printer sitting idle this weekend? Want to find a amusing project to show your friends and family just what this technology is capable of? What better way…
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3D Print Your Own Raspberry Pi Airplay BoomBox
Reading Time: 3 minutesCreate your own Raspberry Pi Airplay Boombox using a 3D printer, the Raspberry Pi Zero W, free software, and electronics. However, be warned that soldering and electronics knowledge is required for this project. Adafruit Industries have come up with a design using the Raspberry Pi Zero W which is both cute and practical –…
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50 Cool Things to 3D Print Which Are Actually Useful
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLike us, you’re tremendously excited by the possibilities of 3D printing. Unfortunately, the landscape is cluttered with trinkets, doodads and ornaments. We’re in danger of drowning in 3D printed objects that nobody wants or needs. Fight the tide of mediocrity! Let’s make stuff that’s actually useful! Here’s a list of cool…
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Edgytokei is a 3D Printed Clock Inspired by Nunchucks
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis is a clock design inspired by martial arts weaponry banned from playgrounds all over the world. What could possibly go wrong? Meet the Edgytokei, made with Arduino and 3D printing. Don’t Miss: 3D Printed Clock: 19 Great Projects to Tell the Time Designer Ekaggrat Singh Kalsi created a faceless clock that is…
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3D Printed Hovercraft Project Gets off the Ground
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the latest update to his 3D printed hovercraft project, Ivan Miranda details how he arrived at a working model that genuinely floats. Over the last couple of months, YouTuber Ivan Miranda has been putting his array of 3D printers to good use. Over a five part series he’s assembled a remote…
