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Revopoint Miraco 3D scanner Review Featured

Revopoint Miraco 3D Scanner Review

Revopoint Miraco 3D scanner review - we check out the features of this all-in-one, portable unit that can scan both small and large objects

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Beginners guide to Blender for 3D printed tabletop

Beginner’s Guide to Blender for 3D Printed Props and Tabletop Gaming (Part 1)

Blender is a fully featured 3D design tool with abilities ranging from regular CAD and sculpting all the way through to fully rendered movie-quality CGI animation. Now, obviously, Z-Brush is highly …

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Blender Part 2

Previously we looked at the Blender UI, now we need to start creating! A cool aspect for beginners is you can start with primitives (objects like cubes and spheres). For more info about that …

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Blender Part 3

While in part 2 of this tutorial we touched on how to create objects in Blender, now we want to make them look exactly how we imagine in our minds eye, which means editing, sculpting, and smoothing …

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Adafruit Arcade Button Enclosure

Laser Cut Box for the Massive Adafruit Arcade Button

The “Massive Adafruit Arcade Button” is one of my favorites, I just find it comically large. Therefore whenever I get a chance to specify this particular button, I jump at it. As luck …

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modify stl files with python code

Modify STL CAD files for CNC or 3D Print using Python Programming

We are pretty familiar at this point with the 3D design creation workflow. Drawing, dragging and dropping CAD files using a mouse and a package such as Fusion 360, or a browser-based application, such …

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K40 laser

Best K40 Laser Upgrades: Upgrading for quality and abilities!

Upgrading my K40 laser cutter to have better quality and abilities

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Prusa mk42 clone

Finally, Prusa Mk42 Heatbed for the Prusa Mk2/Mk2.5, and Pinda Sensor Clones!

The Prusa Mk2/Mk3 3d printers are renowned as top quality, but buying parts is a painfully expensive deal due to the long journey and single supplier. That just changed!

Read moreFinally, Prusa Mk42 Heatbed for the Prusa Mk2/Mk2.5, and Pinda Sensor Clones!
T8 CNC kit

T8 CNC Kit Review

The T8 CNC is a desktop CNC kit built with aluminum extrusions, open source Arduino hardware, and GRBL software. If you were looking to learn CNC, perhaps this little $200 CNC mill could be a good …

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