For 3D printers that aren't already enclosed, why is easily adding a cheap and effective enclosure still not a completely solved problem? The reason is simple: unless one's needs are very basic, enclo...
Tesla coils are always a hit around here at the office. Giant ones that play music with modern-day chain mail wearing DJ's, ones thrown together in garages by self-proclaimed mad scientists... But hav...
For 3D printers that aren't already enclosed, why is easily adding a cheap and effective enclosure still not a completely solved problem? The reason is simple: unless one's needs are very basic, enclo...
Most of our beloved tools, such as Slic3r, Cura or KISSlicer, offer scripting interfaces that help a great deal if your existing 3D printing toolchain has yet to learn how to produce decent results wi...
STL files are everywhere. When there's something to 3D print, it's probably going to be an STL. Which, as long as the model is good just as it is, is no trouble at all. But sooner or later there will...
When is a hot glue stick not a hot glue stick? When it's PLA, of course! A glue gun that dispenses molten PLA instead of hot glue turned out to be a handy tool for joining 3D-printed objects together,...
When is a hot glue stick not a hot glue stick? When it's PLA, of course! A glue gun that dispenses molten PLA instead of hot glue turned out to be a handy tool for joining 3D-printed objects together,...
Featured in many sci-fi stories as a quicker, more efficient way to record and transfer information, barcodes are both extremely commonplace today, and still amazingly poorly understood by many. Origi...
If you ask most people who invented the mouse, they won't know. Those that do know, will say that Doug Englebart did. In 1964 he had a box with two wheels that worked like a modern mouse as part of hi...
[caption id="attachment_392316" align="alignright" width="400"] [Boltz999]'s carrot interconnect.[/caption]If there's one thing that gives us joy here at Hackaday it's a story of audio silliness. Ther...
When is a hot glue stick not a hot glue stick? When it's PLA, of course! A glue gun that dispenses molten PLA instead of hot glue turned out to be a handy tool for joining 3D-printed objects together,...
Non-planar layer Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is any form of fused deposition modeling where the 3D printed layers aren’t flat or of uniform thickness. For example, if you're using mesh bed le...
OctoPrint is arguably the ultimate tool for remote 3D printer control and monitoring. Whether you simply want a way to send G-Code to your printer without it being physically connected to your compute...
3D models drawn in Blender work great in a computer animated virtual world but don't always when brought into a slicer for 3D printing. Slicers require something which makes sense in the real world. A...
When is a hot glue stick not a hot glue stick? When it's PLA, of course! A glue gun that dispenses molten PLA instead of hot glue turned out to be a handy tool for joining 3D-printed objects together,...
Adjust the phase current, crank up the microstepping, and forget about it -- that's what most people want out of a stepper motor driver IC. Although they power most of our CNC machines and 3D print...
When is a hot glue stick not a hot glue stick? When it's PLA, of course! A glue gun that dispenses molten PLA instead of hot glue turned out to be a handy tool for joining 3D-printed objects together,...
Tesla coils are always a hit around here at the office. Giant ones that play music with modern-day chain mail wearing DJ's, ones thrown together in garages by self-proclaimed mad scientists... But hav...
SLA printing in resin is great, but part washing can be a hassle. The best results come from a two-stage wash, but that also means more material and more processing steps. Fortunately, there are ways ...
Join Hackaday in Belgrade, Serbia on May 9th, 2020 for the Hackaday Belgrade conference! The biennial hardware conference is just seventeen weeks from now. Early Bird tickets will go on sale shortly, ...
Join us on Wednesday, January 22 at noon Pacific for the Austere Engineering Hack Chat with Laurel Cummings! For most of us, building whatever it is that needs building is something that occurs in ...
Commercial R/C aircraft have been getting smaller and smaller with each passing year. In the early 2000's, a palm-sized plane or helicopter was the dream of many an R/C enthusiast. Today, you can pick...
When is a hot glue stick not a hot glue stick? When it's PLA, of course! A glue gun that dispenses molten PLA instead of hot glue turned out to be a handy tool for joining 3D-printed objects together,...
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If you are looking for simulation software, you are probably thinking LTSpice or one of the open-source simulators like Ngspice (which drives Oregano and QUCs-S), or GNUCap. However, there is a new fr...
CircuitPython reached a major milestone last week as it welcomed its 100th board into the fold: the wristwatch form factored badge designed for the 10th annual Open Source Hardware Summit, which takes...
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Fair warning: any homeowners who have thermostats similar to the one that nearly burned down [Kerry Wong]'s house might be in store for a sleepless night or two, at least until they inspect and perhap...
Join Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams as they riff on the coolest hacks from the past week. Clocks and 3D printing seem to keep coming up this week as we look at using an FPGA plus GPS receiver for bet...
Imagine for a second it's the mid-1980s and you're looking in to desktop publishing setups. Those new LaserJets and LaserWriters are pretty cool, but imagine the desktop publishing world if you co...
The world's first 3D-printed hotel suite is located in the Philippines. This is just the first in a series of 3D-printed buildings the designer hopes to create in the area.
TETRIX 3D-Printer: The TETRIX 3D-Printer was designed as an educational tool for middle and high school technology students, robotics teams, and adults. The purpose of constructing the printer is to train people's building, tool usage, electronics, CAD, and programmin…
If you need to know the forecast, generally you can look outside, listen to a weather report, or take advantage of the wide range of online services available. For something local to your dwelling place, however, this 3D-printed weather measurement device gives a great way to see what’s going on. The system features a 3D-printed […]
Всенаправленное колесо, поликолесо, это составное колесо с небольшими роликами, расположенными по окружности, перпендикулярными к направлению вращения...
DIY 3D Printed Dremel CNC: When I got my first 3D printer I was extremely happy with all the new possibilities to create things but after some time I noticed the limitations of 3D printing. Plastic is easy to melt, sometimes it's not mechanically resistant enough and most imp…
Все больше людей в Японии спешат воспользоваться новомодной услугой - трехмерной печатью их точных копий в маленьком масштабе. На японском рынке появ...
3D printed houses are a reality! Check out our selection of the most amazing 3D printed houses, buildings, and projects worldwide.
Everyone learns (and some readers maybe still remember) the quadratic formula. It's a pillar of algebra and allows you to solve equations like Ax2+Bx+C=0. But just because you've used it doesn't mean ...
This week, we're starting off with OpenSCAD, a 3D modelling program that's more like programming than drawing. A lot of useful 3D printable objects - including the parts for a lot of RepRaps - are des...
Just a few short months ago, 3D printing with stereolithography was an uncommon and very expensive proposition. Consumer-oriented SLA machines such as the Form1 and the B9Creator are as expensiv...
