Multi Material Printing

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Watch what can be done when 3d Printers are able to print in more than one material at a time. At the moment this technology is only available from the latest proprietary printers. Within the next few years open source printers will also be able to print in this manner.

Printing a bicycle with a 3D printer

Watch a working bike come into existence. The bike could have been printed completely assembled, unfortunately the printer was too small to house the entire thing. The proof is in the wheel hub – if they can print the hub with the bearings already inside, both free and operable, then it shows that the whole [...]

Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage. Purpose of regenerative medicine is to improve and support [...]

ReplicatorG

ReplicatorG is the software that drives your MakerBot Thing-O-Matic, or RepRap machine. You can give it a GCode or STL file to process, and it takes it from there. ReplicatorG has printed tens of thousands of objects and counting and is used by thousands of MakerBot Operators.  

OpenCo’s 3D Printing Workshop

Workshop Goals In this workshop it is our goal to introduce the concept of 3D printing and its many uses. We will quickly go over 3D printing’s history, look at OpenSource objects and 3D printing social media, and print an object.  You will be amazed at how easy and economical it  is to create your [...]