If you will be attending Maker Faire Bay Area in San Mateo, CA, this weekend, please check out my talk at the Make: Live stage at 5pm! “A Field Guide to the Diversity of the 3D Printed World: Design and Modeling for 3D Printing“. I have been collecting stories, images, and more from compelling uses cases for 3D printing for a wide variety of fields/industries, and will be sharing a fun slideshow “field guide” of some of the highlights of my investigations so far!
When people ask “What’s 3D printing for?” they expect simple answers. But in the wild, designers find uses for 3D printing in a vast range of fields. Here’s a quick survey from my book-in-progress “Design & Modeling for 3D Printing” (MakerMedia 2014).
Presenter: Matthew Griffin is currently writing “Design & Modeling for 3D Printing” for Make:Books. He is Director of Community & Support at Adafruit Industries.
Every Thursday is #3dthursday here at Adafruit! The DIY 3D printing community has passion and dedication for making solid objects from digital models. Recently, we have noticed electronics projects integrated with 3D printed enclosures, brackets, and sculptures, so each Thursday we celebrate and highlight these bold pioneers!
Have you considered building a 3D project around an Arduino or other microcontroller? How about printing a bracket to mount your Raspberry Pi to the back of your HD monitor? And don’t forget the countless LED projects that are possible when you are modeling your projects in 3D!
The Adafruit Learning System has dozens of great tools to get you well on your way to creating incredible works of engineering, interactive art, and design with your 3D printer! We also offer the Printrbot Simple Metal 3D Printer in our store. If you’ve made a cool project that combines 3D printing and electronics, be sure to let us know, and we’ll feature it here!