Repairs, replacement parts, and maker ingenuity.

“…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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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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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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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 ( 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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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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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…

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The folks from 3D Natives published this article about 3D printing in agriculture. Some of the applications are along the lines we have posted about before – manufacturing devices, custom tools, and drones. Others are interesting ways of using 3d printing that we may not have highlighted – and are awesome. Bioprinting aside (and that…

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Probably a great time to share this considering it seems to be Winnipeg Wasp season. Soeren Kroll (kr0llx) on Thingiverse posted an easily printable, useful design of a beer can wasp protector than I tried the other day. One piece printable awesome design that works great – https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:6170789

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I have posted a fair bit about ways that 3D printing is being used as a formidable tool in the green economy. I have also (probably more than once) called your attention to 3D printing in construction/housing as a more sustainable/greener/cost effective way to manufacture homes and help address housing issues plaguing so many places.…

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The folks at 3D Natives posted this great article that hits on a number of the same reasons that EIB3D is doing what we do. Here is a summary of the 10 Reasons and fundamentally why EIB3D thinks home parts 3D printed is a great idea. #1: Reduction of Waste and Material #2: Local Production…

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