You're in luck this week if you were wondering which 3D Printer you should put on your Christmas wishlist! MAKE: has released the Ultimate Guide to 3D Printing, and it's rather fabulous and informative. Buy it here.
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Infrastructure
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"The "spongy" bone found near joints is strong but light. Yong Mao of the University of Nottingham, UK and colleagues discovered that this fractal patterns that is self-similar on all length scales can be used to help in building highly efficient load-bearing structures."
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3D Printers
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"Objet has just launched the massive Objet 1000 3D Printer with a 1000 x 800 x 500 mm build volume, this is 10 times the build volume of the next largest system from the company the Objet Connex500."
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"William has filed patent application for the design of PiMaker. In answering many questions and concerns from the community, he explained in his latest post that the patent was to prevent other commercial companies from utilizing their designs in their own printers.
But he will "publish the design files of the PiMaker (as well as UltraBot design) on Thingiverse in a non-commercial license so that hackers/hobbists will be able to use the design, modify it and adapt it to their own use... as long as no commercial interest is involved."
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Return of the 3D Printed Gun...
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"A group of 3-D printing gunsmiths have taken another step toward making a gun you can download off the internet. This weekend, the desktop weaponeers took a partially printed rifle out to test how long its plastic parts survived spewing bullets. The result? Six rounds until it snapped apart."
Read more on Wired
Submitted by @unearthlymike
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