Custom 3D print fashion is a growing trend with the world of fashion shifting to a new phase of design and production. While studying fashion design, Danit Peleg found that design and producing clothes through a desktop 3D printer is a great way to make her fashion ideas come to life, all in the comfort of her home. Learn two processes, equipment and materials she uses when making her clothes and find out why she doesn’t consider 3D printed fashion designing a job. We have done a few … [Read more...]
A 3D Print STEM Ambassador with Grant Mackenzie of CEL
I have a great interview with Grant Mackenzie. He is the sales manager for CEL who does what I've referred to in the past as the CEL Robox 3D Printer. Those of you that have listened to Tracy and I for a long time know that we saw their CEL Robox 3D Printer at CES in 2016. That's more than eighteen months ago, January of 2016. We were very impressed with this 3D printer. We had arranged and we're told originally we were going to get a review unit. For one reason or another, just the … [Read more...]
3D Printed Surface Textures
In today's episode, Tom Hazzard talks about 3D Printed Surface Textures. This episode was based on a question submitted by a listener, which is the idea of adding subtle or shallow surface textures to 3D models for 3D printing and methods that would preserve an object’s basic geometry. Listen to the podcast here: 3D Printed Surface Textures I wanted to respond to a listener’s email, who wrote in very recently, March 22nd. Actually, I also wanted to just point out, and this is a good … [Read more...]
3D Printer Software and Hardware Development
We had a rare opportunity to interview two employees of MakerBot on the record about a lot of issues around not just the new printers, but really all the things that are surrounding the 3D printer that are going on within MakerBot to support the user. When they dove in, they talked about the fact that just upgrading the printer and solving features wasn’t really enough to support the user overall. Whether you’re a prosumer, an educator, a hobbyist, it doesn’t matter where you’re coming in … [Read more...]
MakerBot, Behind The Scenes
Today, Tracy is going to interview Tom about his visit to MakerBot. They talk about the work environment at MakerBot, what kind of a workplace it is and how things are set up. Tom also discloses an announcement from MakerBot that is just being released today, March 20th. They discuss the new developments that the company are focusing on as well. Listen to the podcast here: MakerBot, Behind The Scenes Today, I’m going to interview Tom. Tom went to MakerBot and he got to go behind … [Read more...]
3D Print Product Development – REPLAY
Listen to the podcast here: 3D Print Product Development - REPLAY Head of Experience Design at MakerBot, Mark Palmer, gives insights into how nearly any business can integrate 3D print product development into their in-house design and prototype process. He goes into how 3D printing and having a 3D printer right on your desktop or workstation changes the way product designers and engineers create parts and models. Read the original transcript here. Listen | Download | View Hear the episode … [Read more...]