3D Printing Projects: Toys, Bots, Tools, and Vehicles To Print Yourself

3D Printing Projects: Toys, Bots, Tools, and Vehicles To Print Yourself

<div><p>Even if you've never touched a 3D printer, these projects will excite and empower you to learn new skills, extend your current abilities, and awaken your creative impulses. Each project uses a unique combination of electronics, hand assembly techniques, custom 3D-printed parts, and software, while teaching you how to think through and execute your own ideas.</p> <p>Written by the founder of Printrbot, his staff, and veteran DIY authors, this book of projects exemplifies the broad range of highly personalized, limit-pushing project possibilities of 3D printing when combined with affordable electronic components and materials.</p> <p>In <i>Make: 3D Printing Projects</i>, you'll:</p><ul><li>Print and assemble a modular lamp that's suitable for beginners--and quickly gets you incorporating electronics into 3D-printed structures.</li><li>Learn about RC vehicles by fabricating--and driving--your own sleek, shiny, and fast Inverted Trike.</li><li>Model a 1950s-style Raygun Pen through a step-by-step primer on how to augment an existing object through rapid prototyping.</li><li>Fabricate a fully functional, battery-powered screwdriver, while learning how to tear down and reconstruct your own tools.</li><li>Get hands-on with animatronics by building your own set of life-like mechanical eyes.</li><li>Make a Raspberry Pi robot that rides a monorail of string, can turn corners, runs its own web server, streams video, and is remote-controlled from your phone.</li><li>Build and customize a bubble-blowing robot, flower watering contraption, and a DIY camera gimbal.</li></ul></div>