Creating 1800s style Lithophanes on a Form 1

3D Printing

Aug 7, '18

We rarely hear about photographers using 3D printing in inventive ways, that is until we ran into an order from Florida-based photographer Sandra Canning. Sandra is working with @ in Miami to organize an art exhibit around 3D printed lithophanes. [tumblr_inline_n8ui8uekku1rh3qcw.jpg] The original …

Maker Tales : 3D Tattoo Printer

Show and tell

Aug 7, '18

Students of the ENSCI, L’Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle in France, have been developing a 3D printer. Not your average FDM printer, but one that can make you a tattoo! The brains behind this ingenious project are Pierre Emm, Piotr Widelka and Johan Da Silveira. Their hope is th…

With the end of the Formlabs v 3D Systems patent suit, what does the future hold for manufacturers.

3D Printing

Aug 7, '18

An ongoing issue for printer manufacturers is the wide array and broad nature of patents in the industry. This means that when creating a 3D Printer especially one with laser-based stereolithography techniques you can be subject to the bigger players piling lawsuits on top of you. In my belief the o…