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Traditional Manufacturing Meets 3D Printing

100 micron layer height? 50 microns? FDM printers are getting better resolution every day, as a result of open source collaboration, customer demand, and big R&D budgets. But it’s safe to say that this rate of innovation won’t last forever,

Posted in 3D Printers, 3D Printing, Additive manufacturing, bfb-3000, CAD, Fused Deposition Modeling, Open Source hardware

3D Printer Review: Lulzbot AO-100

This makes the 7th desktop 3D printer that we’ve had the pleasure of playing with and reviewing. To put this in perspective for you, the other machines we’ve build & hacked are the Printrbot LC, Mendelmax 1.5+, Solidoodle 2, Replicator

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Posted in 3D Printers, 3D Printing, 3D Printing software, 3d scanning, Additive manufacturing, AO-100, bfb-3000, Electronics, Fused Deposition Modeling, Lulzbot, make magazine, Makerbot, mendelmax, mendelmax 1.5, Open Source hardware, pololu, printrbot, pronterface, RAMPS 1.4, replicator 1, Replicator 2, Reprap, reprap, slic3r, solidoodle 2, tosduino