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OUYA Video Game Console teams up with MakerBot to Offer Custom 3D Print Options

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After having raised over $8 million on Kickstarter ($8,596,474 to be exact) from the original goal of $950,000, the wildly successful OUYA open-source video game console will be launching with a bang from San Francisco this week. In celebration of the launch, OUYA teamed up with MakerBot and Thingiverse to offer the option to 3D print your own OUYA enclosure. Yes, if you were one of the thousands to pre-order the OUYA from Kickstarter, the Yves Behar-designed box is now open for your downloadable .STL and .3DM modifying pleasure.

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3D Part Source: The Drag and Drop 3D Shape Search Engine For All Your Sourcing Needs

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For designers, finding parts for a project can be a cumbersome experience. While McMaster-Carr and other part suppliers have convenient downloadable CAD models of their inventory, it can still be a time-sucker to search those inventories if you’re still in a conceptual stage. The new 3D Part Source search engine developed by 3D Industri.es aims to put an end to the task of wading through endless specs and catalogs to find approximations of the part you are seeking–and also put a few pennies back in your pocket.

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In DESIGN

Moniker Guitars Lets You Design Your Own Custom Electric Guitar

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Moniker Guitars of Austin, Texas make some of the most beautiful (and unique) solid body electric guitars I’ve ever seen. Plus, they allow you to customize your very own guitar through their online configurtator–Keeps you from gouging yourself with a carving knife trying to whittle one out of that maple stump. These guitars are high class and completely configurable, right down to the text and graphics. They also happen to have a Kickstarter campaign for their new line of semi-hollow body guitars.

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Click. Print. Gun. | Watch the Full Documentary on Cody Wilson and 3D Printed Weapon Manufacturing [video]

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Having recently been approved for a Type 7 Federal Firearms Licence (FFL), Cody Wilson just can’t seem to stay out of the news these days (not that he has a problem with that). Currently Wilson is awaiting his early-April approval for his Class 2 Special Occupational Taxpayer (SOT) add-on which will allow him to manufacture and deal firearms under the National Firearms Act. To add fuel to the media fire, the popular counter-culture media hub VICE just released an honest and raw 25 minute documentary where perhaps for the first time, we get to see the real Cody Wilson and why he is so passionate about the 3D printing revolution.

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Tinkercad to Shut Down, But Lives On… The Advent of Airstone.

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I am devastated, DEVASTED I tell… yet also quite hopeful. A bitter-sweet day for all. The most advanced web-based 3D modeling site and, really, the only great hope for 3D creation on the web, at the moment, has announced they are closing shop to pursue a new venture. In place of models created by users, the Tinkercad homepage now shows the closure announcement and the dates the door will close. Pretty clever of the good chaps at Tinkercad, because this makes it the perfect environment to announce their new venture and how Tinkercad will live on.

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