New i3 Render

17 May 2013

When we were making build manuals of the Prusa i3 printer in Blender, the temptation of making a nice render out of it was irresistible. Have a look at the result and wonder how we printed this Tux :)

Workshop march 2/3 in Berlin

12 March 2013

Here is a little fotostream from the worshop on march 2/3 in fablab-berlin.

There where 6 teams of 2 poeple each constructing there new reprap i3 3D printer. 
After two days of hard work installing software a new offspring of 6 i3 printers was born.

open3Dengineering in ZDF mo:ma

06 February 2013

ZDF mo:ma interviewed open3Dengineering about 3D Printing. Along with Shapeways and the Frauenhofer institute, we were asked our opinion about 3D printing in the future.

Ford engineers 3D print

02 January 2013

The engineers of Ford research and development now use open source 3D printers on their desk. 

One printer for every engineer to speed up workflow and enhance quality.

Xmas gifts with RepRap

10 December 2012

I just had a look on thingiverse to find some xmas gifts for this year.

One of my favorite where this nice 8bit pacman cookie cutter set. A perfect present for all members of the 8bit generation that are also in to cookies. 

If you got pirates in the family, take a look at the neet little Piratebay ship by zenix. It is definitely more difficult to print, but since everybody is scared of using the piratebay cause every shared file is somehow considered a copyright infringement ( read the comments on thingiverse under the Piratebay ship and you get my point ). You can make a stand and express your feelings toward openness and your open minded pirate friends.  

Open Science Summit 2012

06 December 2012