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3d Printing
Jody Serrano
One of the unique challenges of 3D printing is that models that feature structures hanging in mid-air, like the spout of a teapot, also need temporary structures to support the soft extruded plastic until it hardens. This can result in a lot of wasted material, because those supports are just…
When we think of 3D printing we usually think of a little robot that squirts out endless lines of plastic onto a surface. But vacuum forming — smoothing a sheet of thin plastic over an object to make a hollow copy — has been around much longer and is the…
There are 3D-printing pens that let prolific doodlers turn their drawings into three-dimensional sculptures, but all users are really left with is a piece of art. Polaroid’s taking 3D-printing pens one step further by replacing extruded plastic with melted candy so that when your masterpiece is complete, you can eat…
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