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As I started exploring what was possible in the Thingiverse I quickly saw a trend of people “upgrading” their 3D printers by building and printing items to get more use out of them. I’ve become addicted to printing these things because it’s just so cool to build parts on the device itself that will later […]
One of the questions we get often from faculty and students is “How much does this all cost?”. Not only are they probably wondering about how much it costs to buy a device like this, but whether the software costs money, and more importantly how expensive is the raw material in relation to how much […]
As if the very idea of printing 3-dimensional objects out of plastic isn’t crazy enough, there’s another aspect to it that never fails to blow minds when I talk about it to faculty, staff, and students at UMW. The Makerbot supports 3 different types of material with it’s hotend extruder nozzle, ABS, PLA, and Water […]
In the Fall of 2011 over a Chipotle lunch, George Meadows and I were talking about the possibilities that 3D printing affords and just how far the technology had come in terms of price and ease of use. Just a few months later he had received funding from the Dean of Education to purchase a […]