21st century light bulb - lab glassware, LED diodes and 3d printed parts

Cool DIY project. Used laboratory glassware, LED lamps, 3d printed conectors ... low price ...

Project homepage:
http://chaozlabs.blogspot.com/2013/01/21st-century-light-bulb.html

3D printed vacuum tube socket

3D Printing and the Future of Shopping

Video of 3d printed music records by Wired

Signing 3d printed objects

Chris came up with innovative way to sign 3d printed objects.

Felicia Day and Leap 3d user interface

... I can see this technology interfacing with 3d design programs or even guiding your printer as it prints ... and if it captures fingers, could it be used as 3d scanner?

DIY friction plastic welder by Fran

Weld plastic with this DIY welder. It is some serious DIY magic.

http://www.frantone.com/designwritings/design_writings.html#welder

Hot glue gun extruder

3$ extruder! Flash of genius!




From the video description:

Hot Melt Glue Gun HMA (Hot Melt Adhesive) Extruder to make a 3D Printer. It is based on a $3 Walmart Low Temperature Mini Hot Glue Gun. The extruder is driven around by a 3 axis CNC router made from plans from http://solsylva.com/cnc/13x13x5.shtml . The whole thing is driven by an Arduino Uno with a custom set of Shields, a single stepper driver based on a ULN2803 and a parallel port adapter board to drive a 3 axis HobbyCNC stepper driver board. I am using the Teacup firmware that has been customized to driver the ULN2803 stepper driver for the extruder (E axis). All is orchestrated by Pronteface on the PC side with G-Code by Slic3r (converts STL 3D Model to G-Code for Pronterface).

Complete step-by-step guide:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Hot-Glue-Gun-Extruder-for-Your-CNC-Machine-or-3D-P/?ALLSTEPS

via http://www.homemadetools.net/glue-gun-fdm

Update: I was told in comments on Reddit that this is nothing new. Basically RepRap started its development with hot glue guns. There is much more information in "A history of RepRap development":

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22464622/A%20History%20of%20RepRap%20Development.pdf

Great work and cool DIY project anyway! 

How a 3d printing extruder works

By Garen Phillips

Solidoodle extruder calibration

Ian Johnson has a great video tutorial on how to calibrate Solidoodle extruder.

http://www.solidoodle.com/how-to-2/how-to-update-firmware/

3D Printing coffee cups in timelapse video

Hothardware guide to Up Mini, Cube 3d and Solidoodle 2

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/The-Definitive-3D-Printer-Roundup-Cubify-Up-Solidoodle/

How to remove model stuck to the print surface

... it's easy: with ice and hammer. BusyBotz has the video tutorial.



He also uses spatula to remove them.

Speed and temperature settings and 3d print quality

Youtube user microcubology  (Richard) on his experience with print speed, temperature and their effects on print quality.

Ultimaker workflow