3D printing has started to become the talk of the town; so why not throw a workshop and teach others how to use it for their own personal projects? After all, we have 2 of them and have spawned about 18 of these self replicating machines with many other prototypes, trinkets, gadgets, and gizmos that […]
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LulzBot 3D Printer At Our Space
February 6th, 2013 
lizbaumann
This past fall we had a visitor from the Loveland-based company Aleph Objects, Inc. which makes Lulzbot 3D printers. After the visit, they offered to sponsor us by providing us with a LulzBot AO-100 3D Printer Package. The printer was basically ready to go – nearly no assembly time and already calibrated. We were printing […]
Creating Physical Reality: 3D Printing with the Reprap Prusa Mendel
May 9th, 2012 lizbaumann
We now have a working Reprap Prusa Mendel 3D Printer at the space! 3D printing aka additive manufacturing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file driven by a computer. Plastic is fed from a reel and heated and extruded onto a surface where it is additively layered to create […]
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