In CONTESTS

Design a Kick-Ass Robot and Have it 3D Printed by Stan Winston's Legacy Effects Team

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Been feeling a little inspired to sketch out some robot designs after recently seeing Pacific Rim? Me too. Lucky for us, the studio behind all of the animatronics used in Pacific Rim (on a side note: holy crap, they actually used animatronics for those scenes?), Legacy Effects, has been celebrating Robot Month with a 3D printed robot contest where you have a chance of having your design printed by the same guys responsible for the Pacific Rim robots…and on the same machine that they use for all their movie robot designs. Interested in bringing home a little bit of sci-fi movie memorabilia bragging rights? Here’s the details.

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In FAB

All-in-One 3D Copy Machine Set to Launch on Kickstarter September 4th

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Computer Science Ph.D. students Kai Chang and Jens Windau of tech startup AIO Robotics have just announced that they’ve been developing an ‘All-in-One’ 3D copy machine similar to that of what we have seen with 2D printers. The ‘copier’ from Chang and Windau would essentially let you be able to scan, print, copy, and fax 3D objects directly from one machine without the need of transferring to other different machines. With the MakerBot Digitizer just days away from a release, will the Zeus All-in-One be MakerBot’s biggest threat?

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In FAB

3D Systems Launches Cubify Sculpt (and Why it's So Important.)

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When you’re thinking about squeezing those mashed taters between your fingers and your elbow skin starts to flare, it usually means one thing. You have a hankering for some completely unfettered week-night sculpting insanity. Now, you have quite a few options out there, the newest of which is Cubify Sculpt. 3D Systems announced the new program as part of their Cubify community site which offers up 3D printing and 3D printers.

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In RADIO

SolidSmack Radio | Take Cover

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This week’s Spotify-powered SolidSmack Radio Playlist brings an entirely new face-smack of great music to help propel you through those laborious, tedious design tasks for the next few days. This week we’re taking things in a different direction with a face-slam of various classic cover songs. We’ll start with the Poolside covering Neil Young and move through Hot Chip covering Marvin Gaye, Passion Pit covering the Smashing Pumpkins, and others before wrapping up with a Bob Dylan Classic.

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In RESOURCES

'The Art of 3D Print Failure': This Open Source 3D Printing Troubleshoot Collective Rocks

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It happens to the best of us. You think you’ve done everything right with setting up your print bed, your file resolution, the amount of available filament, alignments, etc. However you walk in to your office the next morning with so much anticipation for the perfect 3D print and yet—it looks as though Godzilla had a dance party on your print bed overnight. You are not alone. The Art of 3D Print Failure is the open-source 3D print fail blog that not only highlights the beauty and ‘art’ of 3D printing failure, but also serves as one of the best resources for 3D print troubleshooting.

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