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t is now possible to buy a low-end 3D printer for $1,500:
We have been developing the UP! printer for more than one year, it is completely based on our own efforts, we have not used open-source solutions for this design. We understand and follow the RepRap and Fab@home projects with great interest, however these designs follow a quite different direction than we have chose for the UP! printer development.
You can see the printer in action in this video…
This weekend we (the Brain family + Grandpa) went to the Maker Faire in Durham, NC. Compared to the big Maker Faires in San Francisco, this was a small event. But it still contained the essence of any Maker Faire – people with a DIY mindset showing off their work, often highly technical. By far [...]
It hasn’t been a year since Google and HTC unveiled the G1, the first smartphone to use the Android operating system. But back in late 2008, many of us thought that the Android OS would sweep through the smartphone market. We imagined dozens of phones spread across all the major carriers. But that hasn’t happened yet.
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