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Rocketboom Tech correspondent Ellie Rountree talks to Bre Pettis, and Zach Hoeken about their new company, MakerBot Industries (www.makerbot.com), building open source robot kits that allow you to do rapid prototyping and 3D Printing at home. Music Can Opener by The Discoghosts www.upitup.com For an extra piece of fun from this shoot, go watch Ellie and the Flaming Bunny! www.youtube.com

Printing some BrainBot parts

3D Printing of, human head, Geodesic dome, Statues. Rapido3d, London based laser scanning, 3D Printing, and Large CNC machining. www.rapido3d.co.uk

Here is a sped up printing of Lady Liberty! This took 6 hours to print!

Dimension 3D Printing Group Introduces the uPrint™ Personal 3D Printer As a personal 3D printer, uPrint makes 3D printing immediate and convenient through every design iteration. There’s no waiting in queue for a shared printer and no waiting for models to arrive from an outside service.

Watch the complete process of 3D printing on the Objet Connex500 Polyjet Machine compliments of Vista Technologies www.vistatek.com. From Programming to testing material properties of these rapid prototyping parts. These parts also display overmolding, living hinges and fine detail lettering.

www.objet.com Desktop 3D Printer Alaris™30 offers an exclusive combination of high-quality, finely detailed models in a compact, office friendly system. Based on Objets proven polyjet™ Photopolymer Jetting technology, the Alaris30 creates true-to life parts of any kind with extreme accuracy. A one-of-a-kind 3D Printing System.

I’ve designed this part to fit a PTFE tube onto. To download this part yourself, follow the link below: www.thingiverse.com It is being printed on a reprap open source 3D printer. This machine is designed so that the majority of the parts can be printed. The entire design is digital and available online for everyone to improve. Everyone with a working reprap can create upgrades and share them with other reprappers, extending the open source principle from software to hardware! Everything, including the circuit boards used, CAD files, documentation and software is open source. More about this part: This is a holder for a 5 mm PTFE cable that serves as a guide for the filament. The PTFE tube has such a low friction, that you can hardly attach it to anything. The plastic feedstock will travel from a driving mechanism to the extrusion head, through this flexible tube. The PTFE, aka Teflon, a very low friction. This solution will allow you to have multiple extruders on your machine without the moving mass becoming too heavy. The lighter it is, the quicker you can move the heads, eg when you’re not extruding. The machine will need less current to run the motors, it reduces stringing when not extruding. Even more so, it reduces the weight of the X-axis so much that a much simpler and lighter Cartesian bot is possible. The steel rods wouldn’t necessarily be needed, allowing a much larger ratio of self-replication. The Bowden cable itself could be printed in several modules that …

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3D Printing of a Laser scanned wooden statue, 1meter tall, scaled down and printed on our Zcorp Z450 3d Printer. Rapido3d, London based laser scanning, 3D Printing, and Large CNC machining. www.rapido3d.co.uk