What an amazing year for 3D printing! The second I saw a report on the Ultimaker in early 2011 I was sold on it. Everything I expected became true when we finally build ours in June. Only short time later we witnessed how layer heights decreased over and over again. Even...

Back in June we (Eva, Mariella, Marcel & myself) started to build an Ultimaker, print tons of fun stuff and finally got back to our original assignment: "How precise is this Open Source Rapid Prototyping Machine?" Now we finally finished up on Monday with a very well...

This blog post covers common observations on your first print results and provides recommendations how to improve quickly. Let's do this with help of a quite typical photograph: It's one of the first prints by Arthur van Hoff (Thanks for granting permission to use...

via richrap.blogspot.com It may sound odd, but it's really essential that you fail when doing 3D printing, It tells you so much about your machine, the boundaries you can operate in and how good or bad things can be. If all you do is print with safe settings or never...

Microsoft Research Cambridge is doing some incredible work with their Kinect devices. This will bring 3D scanning to a complete new level. Let's hope this is released to the community for further development. More information is said to be published at UIST & ISMAR...

I hope this chart helps to understand all the bits needed to complete your own Ultimaker/3D Printing tool chain. Commenting on the single steps: Get a 3D model!Design your own 3D model with a CAD program. Here are some free ones:- Google SketchUp (Easy to use entry...

Today is the day where a 20 Microns thin perimeter line was printed by Paul Candler on an Ultimaker! Looking forward where this will lead us... Have a look here for my latest prints with the already released "Ultra Quality" setting within Netfabb Engine Basic for Ultimaker...

I love these "Hello World" posts... it always means something exciting is about to happen.