Eufymake E1 Review: For The Price, This Creative Tool Is A Real No-Brainer

www.slashgear.com: UV printing is a really compelling concept, with a lot of potential versatility for creators to manufacture all sorts of unique artworks. The Eufymake E1 is the first UV printer to bring UV printing to a relatively affordable and approachable point (for the average consumer). The possibilities it offers are exciting indeed, particularly to hobbyists and artists looking to create high quality products in their own homes.

Flashforge AD5X Is a Best-Selling Printer for a Reason

Make:: “Multicolor Is Hot!” proclaimed the cover of Make: Volume 88, highlighting the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon AMS system that finally broke multi-material printing through to the masses. But with its original price of almost $1,500, a large swath of the maker audience was excluded from the multi-material mania by cost.

New Law Would Demand 'Firearm Blocking' Tech In Every 3D Printer

www.slashgear.com: As 3D printers from a number of brands get better and less expensive, there's always the question of 3D-printed guns. After all, 3D printers are showing up in combat roles. To counter this, at least in California, Assembly member Rebecca Bauer-Kahan introduced a bill that would mandate that every 3D printer sold in California be coded with "firearm blocking features designed to prevent the printing of dangerous gun parts and ghost guns."

Adafruit Warns New Ghost Gun Laws Could Have Unintended Consequences for 3D Printers

gizmodo.com: In a series of blog posts, the open-source hardware company Adafruit criticized the recently introduced legislation in Washington state and New York, calling the measures misguided, overly broad, and potentially harmful to the open manufacturing industry.

4 3D Printed Tools That Are Actually Useful

www.slashgear.com: 3D printers have come a long way in recent years, allowing users to print just about anything they can think of. Typically, this leads folks to use them for fun hobby-based projects, like miniatures and environments for tabletop games, fidget toys, and other trinkets with little use.

How To Design 3D Printed Pins That Won’t Break

Hackaday: Sure, one can make pins stronger simply by upping infill density or increasing the number of perimeters, but those depend on having access to the slicer settings. If someone else is printing a part, that part’s designer has no actual control over these things. So how can one ensure sturdier pins without relying on specific print settings? [Slant 3D] covers two approaches.

New CMU 3D-Printing Simulator Constructs Stronger, More Efficient Concrete Buildings

News - Carnegie Mellon University: When natural disaster strikes, a building’s survival often depends on how it’s built. Engineers at Carnegie Mellon University have created a fast, highly accurate simulator for spray-based concrete 3D printing that could enable stronger, more complex and less wasteful construction by predicting how concrete behaves and solidifies, even around rebar.

3D-printed construction hits the mainstream with Icon's Texas homes

newatlas.com: As 3D printing has matured from niche hobby to mainstream building technique over the past few years, Icon has positioned itself as a major player in the field. Shortly after unveiling plans to print a simulated Mars base with NASA and the Bjarke Ingels Group, the firm has now put the finishing touches to a development of 3D-printed homes in East Austin, Texas.

3D Printering: Is Hassle-Free Bed Leveling Finally Here?

Hackaday: 3D printers have come a long way over the past several years, but the process of bed leveling remains a pain point. Let’s take a look at the different ways the problem has been tackled, and whether recent developments have succeeded in automating away the hassle.

Environmental Considerations for FFF 3D Printing

Fusion 360 Blog: 3D printing is often viewed as an environmentally friendly manufacturing method because of its reduction in waste material. It’s also shaking up supply chains by allowing localization, consolidation, and reduced inventories. However, every manufacturing process has an environmental impact, and additive manufacturing is no exception. In this article, we’re going to look at the FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) process and how making changes to your workflow could reduce your parts’ impact on the environment.

Best 3D Printers for Home Office or Design Studio: Top Brands, Reviews

Rolling Stone: 3D printing is a modern marvel, providing you with the ability to print original creations and designs by other users out of all sorts of different materials. Best of all, there’s no need to go anywhere to get it done – a 3D printer fits right into your home or office workstation, connecting to your computer via USB or WiFi, and letting you see what was just a blueprint a few minutes ago now coming to life right before your eyes.

Tested From Home: Foam and 3D-Printing Projects!

Tested: Bill from Punished Props Academy checks in with suggestions for foam and 3D printing projects to work on while we're sheltering-in-place at home. These range from easy-to-make hand props to elaborate prop replicas from some of our favorite movies and video games.

The wonders of 3D printing explained

www.702.co.za/articles: 3D printing has added more functionality to products, and it has allowed for greater depth in designing parts.

This is according to Marius Vermeulen, Project Manager for Additive Manufacturing at Aerosud Innovation and Training Centre.

How Pittsburgh couple turned their 3D printer into Infinite Labs for the battle against coronavirus

News | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: By now, it's no secret that the country is undersupplied for the current pandemic, perhaps best evidenced by the lack of medical-grade masks available for the people who need them the most. Every day, new photos circulate on social media of doctors wearing handkerchiefs to cover their faces and trash bags to cover their bodies because they have nothing else. To help provide some layer of protection, many people are jumping in to create DIY masks in whatever way they can.

Adam's Finger Accident - Still Untitled: The Adam Savage Project - 3/31/20

Tested: Longterm haircut and beard trimming strategies are discussed this week as we enter week three of working from home. Adam tells the harrowing tale of a hand injury he sustained late last week that was truly frightening, Norm finishes the West Wing, and we point to some resources for makers 3d printing PPE for health care workers.

Shop Tips: Learning Injection Moldmaking

Tested: Sean's latest shop tip is a path to learning some of the nuances of injection molding for manufacturing using Protolabs' design aids. These parts samples help you learn about materials, surface finishes, and other design elements that go into injection molding--they're great learning tools!

SparkMaker FHD $250 3D Printer Review!

Tested: Sean tests and reviews the SparkMaker FHD resin 3D printer, which is currently available as a pre-order for $250. At that price, it's an attractive low-cost resin printer, and we were happy with both its software and print quality.

Modeling and 3D-Printing Wonder Woman's Tiara for Cosplay!

Tested: Darrell's latest project involves the modeling and printing of a custom Wonder Woman Tiara for cosplay! Darrell walks us through his process adapting the model with some unique design elements and the trials and tribulations of smoothing out and finishing the 3D print to meet his satisfaction.

US military uses 'world’s largest' 3D printer to build concrete barracks

www.designboom.com: the US marine corps systems command (MCSC) has constructed a prototype concrete barracks in under two days with what it calls the world’s largest 3D printer. the 3D printer was used to build a basic barracks hut measuring 500 sq ft (46 sq m) in just 40 hours.

Russian firm announces world's largest construction printer

newatlas.com: A Russian firm has announced commencement on the world's largest 3D construction printer, capable of printing an entire six-storey building before you can say "regulatory compliance". The S–500 is the work of the AMT-SPETSAVIA group in Russia.