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MakerBot Digitizer pre-orders open, shipping mid-October for $1,400

August 23, 2013 no comments

MakerBot tipped off some of its loyal fans last week by way of newsletter, but now the Digitzer’s arrival is officially officially. The next piece of the Brooklyn company’s ever-expanding...

FABtotum 3D prints and scans, mills, takes one step closer to self-rep...

August 21, 2013 no comments

Granted, the name’s a bit of a groaner (and we now have pictures of Bukowski sitting in front of a CAD program in our heads), but this box is capable of a pretty impressive array of maker activ...

Ford engineer builds vibrating shift knob using 3D printer and an Xbox...

July 29, 2013 no comments

You’re not going to find it in the next car you drive off the lot, but a Ford engineer has developed a fairly novel approach to making a manual transmission a bit easier to adjust to: a vibrati...

Disney Research’s AIREAL creates haptic feedback out of thin air...

July 21, 2013 no comments

Disney Research is at it again. The arm of Walt’s empire responsible for interactive house plants wants to add haptic feedback not to a seat cushion, but to thin air. Using a combination of 3D-...