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Custom Rigged Kayak - Own Your Hobbies

Custom Rigged Kayak - Own Your Hobbies

  • Ryan Lutz
  • Apr 6, 2017
Learn how 3D printing can enhance your hobbies in this detailed account of a man, his kayak, and the open ocean.
If you’re like me, no feeling quite measures up to that of being out on the open water. I love water sports, so after a friend took me out kayak fishing a couple of years ago and showed me firsthand the kinds of big fish I could catch two miles out on the ocean I decided to invest in my own kayak that I could outfit for fishing.... (More)
MatterCAD - Design Your 3D Parts In C#

MatterCAD - Design Your 3D Parts In C#

  • Lars Brubaker
  • Nov 27, 2012
MatterCAD is a simple parametric CAD tool that allows you to create 3D parts using C#. There is a fully functional command line tool that you can use today. We are also starting work on a graphical version similar to OpenSCAD.
Any programmer wanting or needing to model custom 3D parts has probably stumbled across OpenSCAD, a program that allows you to generate parts using basic scripting.  OpenSCAD is a wonderful tool and for a while we used it exclusively in designing parts, but we missed the ability to use a fully featured programming language.  Eventually we started creating a homegrown utility that would a... (More)
MatterCAD API Documentation

MatterCAD API Documentation

  • MatterHackers
  • Nov 26, 2012
Documentation for the MatterCAD API
Below is the documentation for the MatterCAD API.  You can find the source code to MatterCAD on BitBucket. And an article describing a little bit about it here on our site.... (More)
A 3D Printed Valentine

A 3D Printed Valentine

  • Kevin E. Pope
  • Feb 12, 2013
Being the significant other of some that has access to a 3D Printer has it's risks - including the relatively high probability that your romantic Valentine's Day gift will somehow involve 3D printing.
The folks over at Y-Axis Magazine, a new magazine covering consumer 3D printing, recently stopped by our offices to see what we were up to for Valentine's Day.  Here are a few of the simple ideas we cooked up.... (More)
Have Printer – Will Travel

Have Printer – Will Travel

  • Roy Smith - Guest Contributor
  • May 14, 2013
The Smithbot gets hands-on, exploring the latest 3D printing controversy.
These days, if you own a 3D printer, you’ve probably been asked, “Have you printed a gun yet?”  If you’re at all like me, you’ve probably answered, “Are you out of your mind?? Of course I have!” (More)
How to Make Your Friends into Flakes

How to Make Your Friends into Flakes

  • Roy Smith - Guest Contributor
  • Dec 12, 2013
Roy (aka "The SmithBot") fills us in on a fantastic DIY holiday gift idea - custom snowflakes that incorporate hidden names within the design. All made possible by the science of 3D printing (and 3D printers like you).
You can print custom 3D snowflakes with the names of your friends and family members magically hidden within their snowy crystals!  Follow these easy steps, and your friends will be impressed. So will you! (More)
How to 3D Print a Map of Anywhere in the World

How to 3D Print a Map of Anywhere in the World

  • Roy Smith - Guest Contributor
  • Sep 9, 2013
Roy (aka "The SmithBot") presents us with a hands-on guide to turning your neighborhood, city, state, or favorite National Park into a 3D printable topographic map.
A few months ago my friend Barney said, “Can you 3D print Thousand Palms Canyon?”   I knew what he meant: all the hills and gulleys and landscape features we’re familiar with. “No,” I said. “That’s impossible.” But the idea kept bugging me. Why not? So I did what any of you would do in the middle of a sleepless night: I went online. Huh! Not imp... (More)
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