If you wondered what 3D printing is really good for, get “Fabricated,” a new book by Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman.
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MadeWithCode.com, a Google-operated site, let anyone design a small custom bracelet that they made and mailed out for free. Honest! – We got one. Ours is green and says “Bob and Joy.” It took a couple of months to arrive. Now they have other projects, such as animated “Yeti” figures. Click “Projects” to choose. Many are free, like the animated greeting cards.
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Instead of buying your own 3D printer, you can have Amazon print 3D objects for you for around $30 for most items.
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LocalMotors.com is sponsoring a contest to see who can design the best 3D-printed car. You have to enter before May 12 and the winning design gets $5000. The car will be printed at a manufacturing show in Chicago in September.
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Most of the stuff that comes out of a 3D printer looks like really low quality plastic toys. We’d call it junk, but that would produce a huge outcry from the hobbyists who love it. Okay, we’re calling it junk anyway.
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Unless you’re making frameworks for body parts, most of the plastic things that come out of 3D printers look like junk. So how about printing in metal? Now we’re talkin.
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