Posts tagged 3d-printing 
Attach more things to your head with Oculus Rift sensor, camera clips
Oculus Rift dev kits have been out in the wild for just under a month and the gameplay videos and mods keep trickling in. The latest mod comes for the hardware itself, two clips to add extra motion sensors or cameras to the back or front of the headset, both 3D-printed. Hackaday's Caleb Kraft ...
PBS uses Minecraft to explain a 'post-scarcity economy'
Don't you hate finding out the games you enjoy playing are actually a ruse to teach you about theoretical economics? Apparently that's what Minecraft has been doing all along, at least as it's presented in the above PBS Idea Channel video. It's the betrayal of outNumbered! all over again. Idea ...
Mineways: Create 3D prints of your Minecraft creations, or pay someone else to
3D printers are, indisputably, super awesome. They're boxes full of magic, hope, and lasers, which create substance from nothing and reality from dreams. Coincidentally, Minecraft basically does the exact same thing, by providing the user with a cuboid sandbox for their imagination to run wild ...
Kinect plus 3D printing equals instant miniature you
Thanks to an inventive, and kind of bizarre, project, people have immortalized themselves as Kinect sees them. The Fabricate Yourself project uses 3D models captured by Kinect as the basis for a 3D-printed figure. Designer Karl D.D. Willis came up with the project as an interactive ...
Joyswag: Personalized DS stylus from Shapeways [update]
[Update: The contest is closed! Keep an eye on your email to see if you've won.] Shapeways uses 3D printing technology to fabricate items based on submitted 3D models -- like the custom Nintendo-themed DS styli we've featured. The site has graciously offered to activate its futuristic alien ...
