Perhaps it’s a little too early to be expecting an onslaught of hacks made from ‘discarded 3D printer parts’, but we’ll take them as they come. Using standard RepRap 3D Printer parts, Air Hockey Robot creator/madman Jose Julio has created the ultimate Air Hockey DIY project that will certainly put to use those air hockey…

The swollen artery of 3D printers on the market keeps expanding. I would say it has burst open, spewing endless configurations of plastic, epoxy or powder binding possibilities across your workshop/office floor. You would think there’s not much innovation or improvement left with the explosion of 3D printers we’ve seen… unless you have actually used…

Innovation like this makes me excited! Solidsmack reported recently on how Optomec was experimenting with depositing metal on plastic and how damn cool (err, hot!) that was. Well, out in the land of RepRaps where printers of different breeds roam and their 3D Printistas tinker, manufacture and share ideas and objects, 3D printing metal on plastic…