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EIB3D Insights
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Back soon with updates, news and info
I know I know. I haven’t been active for a while. Apologies, but stayed tuned – new info and activity coming. Thanks for stopping by. Jay
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6000 Year Old Material Science – in a 3D Printer ?
“The material reminds us of wattle and daub, a home building material harking back 6,000 years” From our friends over at Tom’s Hardware comes this news of a 3D printed house – not from cement – but from soil. From a mixture of earth, slaked lime, and natural fibers, Japanese company Lib Work has created…
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Household Items from…Food…
“…we can eventually save 15 million pounds of food and reach out to more than 2000 households in need,” MIT unveilled a 3D printer that can turn food, that would otherwise go to scrap, into useful houselhold items. Who wouldn’t want a 3D printer that can make a coffee mug from banana peels. Ingenious, really!…
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One Blade to 3D…
Phillips Fixables – Fantastic! Another example of manufacturers starting to recognize the benefits of publishing their parts and supporting the right to repair. I love to see this, and hope even more manufacturers start to do it. This shaves costs (pun intended) on shipping, warehousing, part manufacturing, etc. – all adding to a greener way…
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Pellet Extruder Arrived
Well, after a very very long wait we finally received the GreenBoy3D Pellet Extruder. It came very unassembled and looks a bit overwhelming to be honest. The folks at Greenboy3D have been extremely busy improving, and shipping the extruder, so the wiki for assembly and installation is not available yet :(. Anyway, looking forward to…
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Starbucks in 3D
I know I haven’t posted in a while. Apologies. I won’t bore you with the reasons why as I can’t imagine it would matter :). Anyway, I thought this might be interesting as another example of the move to mainstream of applied 3D print technologies. Now you can get your caffeine bean fix in a…
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A car is an extension of your home..right….
Ok so not specifically about your car at the moment, but some of the headlines I am seeing lately certainly lend to my earlier posts about the benefits of distributed / hyper-local manufacturing and how we could start to see more and more manufacturers looking distributed manufacturing with 3D printing. Case in point: Daimler Truck…
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D3D Biggie3D – progress is happening
D3D ( Dreamworks3D), a local 3D printing and scanning company, continues to make progress on their custom built, huge 3D printer. Almost 1 metre square, this printer will no doubt be awesome. It will certainly be interesting. I think it has great potential to provide some unique opportunities for the company, its customers, and the…
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GreenBoy3D – Affordable Pellet Extrusion for all!
Kristian Friessen (aka Greenboy3D) has been working extremely dilligently on creating an affordable pellet extrusion system that looks so very promising. We hope to provide more detailed information about the extrusion system from personal experience soon, as one of them is destined to become part of a large concept printer that the folks at D3D…
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And now for a bit of fun – in 3D
You may have heard (or seen) me reference my good friend Edward VZ’s bold statement (sort of summarized) – 3D print anything and everything. As you may have seen in many of the blog posts here on EIB3D, the maker, and commercial manufacturing community, is doing just that. I have posted about 3D printing useful…