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3D printing is becoming a very popular hobby as prices for printers have become much more varied, which has made them more accessible to more people. There are also many websites, blogs, and YouTube Channels, that cater to all aspects of 3D printing, some of them focusing on a specific type of model building like… Continue reading 3D Printer Makers

In 3D printing you take a model and you use what’s called a slicer; this slicer takes the software and turns it into what’s called G-code. That G-code is the instructions for the 3D printer (or for a CNC machine or for a laser cutter… etc, they all work on the same principles). With the… Continue reading How 3D Printing Works

With products like Amazon Alexa and robot companions like Buddy becoming more and more commonplace inside peoples homes as well as in the bigger world around us, we are seeing AI (Artificial Intelligence) advancements moving rapidly and permeating most of the ways that we interact with our environment. Here are three different ways we are… Continue reading New Growth in Artificial Intelligence

The Maker community is a long-standing space where people take DIY to the next level. Makers explore engineering in a non-constrained environment and give others jumping-off points for getting into things like electronics, woodworking, or 3D printing. Maker blogs and YouTube channels showcase incredibly smart and creative people, problem-solving in new and interesting ways through… Continue reading 3 Unique Maker Youtube Channels to subscribe to Right Now

As mentioned in the previous 3D printing/droid post, setting up the printer with basic functionality took about three hours to go from putting it together to running and spitting out a mess of spaghetti. Once it was clear the machine was heating and functioning at a minimal level, then the real work of fine-tuning the… Continue reading Setting Up A New 3D Printer!