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 [...]

Native Apps or HTML5 Apps

If you read about mobile application strategy , you’ll find that there is a crucial choice: develop a native application for each mobile platform  or a web application to to cover all platforms at once. With ether option there are significant costs, both for development and time to market. More and more authors, select a mobile strategy [...]

Adobe trying to push HTML5 Edge

Adobe recently launched a new tool called Adobe Edge, enabling creative professionals to design animation content with web standards like HTML 5, CSS and JavaScript instead of Flash. Pushed as an alternative to Flash, not a replacement, Edge web design software is Adobe’s big bet on how they continue to strengthen its position as the [...]