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Extruder Upgrade
5 Best Anet A8 Extruder Upgrades

One of the ways to enhance the print quality of the popular Anet A8 is by upgrading its extruder. Here, we list some of the best extruders that will take your printing experience to the next level.

by Brian Obudho
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Creality CR-X 3D Printer – Review the Specs

After the smashing success of the CR-10, Creality3D has doubled down with the new Creality CR-X, a similarly styled 3D printer with dual extrusion capabilities. Let's review the facts and check out the first impressions from the community.

by All3DP
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Great Scott!
[Project] Turn Back Time with a 3D Printed Delorean Clock From ‘Back to the Future’

Have you always wanted to travel through time like Marty McFly and Doc Brown in 'Back to the Future'? Well, Great Scott! Now you can with this amazing 3D printed Delorean clock. 

by Tyler Koslow
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Never Fear, the Bounce is Here!
How to 3D Print Rubber-Like Materials

3D printing isn't just limited to hard plastics -- from phone cases to adorable octopuses, rubber-like filaments open up a whole new world of printable ideas. But how do you print with flexible filament? Here are some tips and tricks.

by Tian Ooi
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Hot Stuff
3D Print Your Own Thermal Imaging Camera

Using a 3D printer, Arduino and off the shelf parts, the Ruiz Brothers at Adafruit show us how to build a thermographic camera with a classic snapper body.

by Matthew Mensley
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Coloring Outside The Layers
XYZprinting Unveils Full-Color Desktop 3D Printer For $3,000

XYZprinting unveils the new $3,000 Da Vinci Color 3D printer, using inkjet technology to inject color directly into filament as its printed.

by Tyler Koslow
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It's Alive!
3D Printed Strandbeest Has Motor, Will Crawl

Besides being mini, this Strandbeest uses 3D printing and motors rather than the wind and PVC pipes for its locomotion.

by Hanna Watkin
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Keep Calm and Carabiner
Make a Carabiner Clip: 7 Useful Designs to 3D Print

This is a list of useful carabiner clip designs which you can make on a consumer desktop 3D printer. Warning: not to be used for climbing!

by Bulent Yusuf
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From Crazy to Practical
15 Best PS3 Accessories to DIY or Buy

Got an old PlayStation 3 in the attic or even planning on buying one? Hold on, here are the best PS3 accessories you can DIY or buy.

by Max Gicklhorn
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Say Cheese
3D Rendering a Fake Image for a French Photo ID

Blurring the lines of identity and what is real, a French artist has used 3D modeling to fake a image for his government photo ID.

by Hanna Watkin
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Printing with a Purpose
10 Ways 3D Printing Supports the Blind

It seems that both designers and engineers are working with 3D printing technology to help those who are blind or partially sighted in a big way.

by Hanna Watkin
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Big Frickin' Gun
Handheld Railgun Created with Arduino and a 3D Printer

Is that thing real? It looks real. And dangerous. Maker David Wirth put together a fully functional handheld railgun in his workshop.

by Hanna Watkin
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3D Printed Food
Food 3D Printing Starts from the Sweet Ending

Let's go take a look at what some of the leading companies and innovators in this segment, ChocEdge, 3D Systems, Hans Fouche, RIB and more, have achieved so far in 3D printing of sugar and chocolate based sweets.

by Victor Anusci
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Upgrade, Downsize
A Maker Spent Nine Months Building the Core One Mini Prusa Won’t Make

Normally an upgrade in the universe of Prusa means upcycling parts from your printer into a newer, more capable (or bigger) printer. An industrious maker has flipped this concept on its head and repurposed a Core One kit into an on-brand-looking Core One Mini. Why? To prove they could.

by Matthew Mensley
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Buy, Print, Own
Why Don’t More Brands Release Finish-It-Yourself Products?

With the rise of affordable, accessible desktop 3D printers, co-printable or "finish-it-yourself" (FIY) products as we're calling them, logically should follow, shouldn't they? Everyone with a 3D printer has the power to manufacture essential parts of physical products, yet only a token few FIY products exist.

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Bambu Lab Took Down an OrcaSlicer Fork and Handed It a Bigger Audience

The prickly overlap between a subset of Bambu Lab users and the company itself flashed into the spotlight this month, following Bambu Lab pressuring a solo developer to take down an OrcaSlicer fork that reconnected the slicer to Bambu Lab's cloud infrastructure.

by Matthew Mensley
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Bake It Off
Why Upgrading to the New PrintDry Pro4 Makes Sense (Even if You Own a Pro3)

The Pro4's upgraded heating unit may finally deliver the solid temperature consistency your moisture-sensitive filaments have been asking for.

by Carolyn Schwaar
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Small, Yet Zoomy
9x Faster Micro 3D Printing: Inside BMF’s New MicroArch S150 Ultra

BMF announced the MicroArch S150 Series, pairing a new S150 Ultra with the existing S150 to create a two-tier accessible entry point into 25-micron-resolution resin printing.

by Matthew Mensley
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Switching It Up
Xometry Alternatives: Better Options in 6 Categories

We looked for better Xometry alternatives in terms of instant quotes, better pricing, transparency, color options, and faster delivery.

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No More Laptops: Shining 3D’s New FreeScan Omni Processes Everything In-Scanner

The latest handheld scanner from Shining 3D eliminates the workstation bottleneck, allowing engineers to capture, mesh, and export full reports entirely on-device.

by Carolyn Schwaar
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