One of my first prints was of Abraham Lincoln's life mask. Technically the model I downloaded was a laser scan of a plaster copy of the 1865 Clark Mills original (currently residing in the Smithsonian) so it's several degrees removed from Honest Abe's actual face. Nonetheless, it's still pretty amazing to be able to hold this object and think there's a real connection, however tenuous, to the 16th president of the United States. This print is also when I first started payin

ML picked up this gramophone a while back on the cheap because it was missing a foot. I really like that there are no wires, no cables, no fuss - just good ol' fashioned acoustic amplification. While it's never really been an issue, I was looking for anything that would let me put my new printer to practial use. This was the very first thing I modeled from scratch and printed. In less than an hour I had measured, modeled, and printed the new part. Freakin' amazing. It pr

It's been about a year since I started 3D printing, which has given me a lot of time to reflect on both how much I've learned and how much the industry has developed in a short time. When Make: Magazine released their 2014 3D Printing Review issue, I didn't expect to be purchasing a 3D printer a few weeks later. I actually wanted to see the review on a different printer, but became enamoured with the Printrbot Simple instead. It won "Best Value", and was the only one where