Ideas, projects and practical repair
EIB3D Insights
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CityTV showcasing thoughtful 3D Printing
Joanne Roberts of CityTV recently did an interview and showcase for “Making Life More Accessible with 3D Printing” I posted earlier about the good folks at Makers Making Change, and was happy to see the recognition and support. Kudos to our friends at Makers Making Change ( including Marc Hache) for their empathy driven awesome…
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Audi tools up with 3D Printing
Not about home repair per se, but crosses over when you consider what Audi is doing – using 3D printing to make tools they need faster, to get a specific job or task done faster. This same approach can be done with jigs for home or hobby tasks. There are literally thousands of these already…
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What do you Tonneau? – It works!
Ok Ok – Too silly. Here is a video snapshot courtesy of local makers D3D. I have a Ford Ranger with a Tonneau (box) cover that one of the clip down braces broke on – making it unsuable. Instead of spending $3-400+, I had D3D scan the part for me. With the STL created from…
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Solving Housing Affordability ?
Affordable home is 3D-printed in just five days – for the rquivalent of $21,800 USD I posted a while back about 3D printed homes. I know the EIB3D tag line is home parts 3D printed and this is more “whole homes 3D printed” but I thought sharing it might help extend the view with another…
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When and Where Tech actually helps…
Photo credit – A Filter Cap in use. (Image Credit: Nicolas Fernández) I love a story that underscores how technology is sometimes actually delivering on the promise to help better the world. Whether it is helpful home repair, useful custom stuff, assistive devices, land fill avoidance, heirloom preservation, or … improving accessibilty – to many…
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Cars (2) too ?
Excerpt from Hagerty – The Present and Future of 3D Printing in Restoration – Pistion picture from Hagerty with tag – 3D printed pistons – Mahle The opportunity to be less of a throw away world is getting traction across many disciplines, including the automotive restoration world. Check out this article from Hagerty – https://www.hagerty.com/media/market-trends/state-of-the-art-the-present-and-future-of-3d-printing-in-restoration…
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Makers rolling along..?
Just to give you an idea of the kinds of things that can be done, here are a few more pics of some of the stuff the crew has been doing so folks can keep their stuff. Ducks and Tusks, (Classic game parts and keepsake scultpture), cookware handles, tool cart parts, interior car trim, even…
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D3D and a Very Large Printer
The folks at Dreamworks 3D have been doing some amazing things. Now they are stepping up on a VLP (very large printer build) We will post periodic progress but this is a local project that promises to be intersting and hopefully very usable. Some thought needs to be given to building these large printers as…
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BykCar? A pedal powered electric wunderbike.
a pedal-powered bike-car with electric assist
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Friend of a Friend’s Broken Leg – No Problem
A golfing buddy of mine heard about some of the things we were doing at EIB3D, and asked if we could fix an old tripod that a friend of his had. The friend wasn’t able to get parts for this older tripod, but thought it should still be useful with functioning legs. After a few…