On December, 2014 Barilla launched a contest to get ideas about new 3d-printed pasta: More than 530 international product designers from more than 20 countries took up the challenge, producing 216 design concepts to be evaluated by...

Microsoft Kinect for Xbox revealed itself as an excellent scanner, with which to acquire the shape of items. Let’s see how to use it along with ReconstructMe, that in its more recent versions allows the creation of...

In what may be one of the most detailed and largest prop/costume projects we have seen to date, a 20-year-old Marvel Comics enthusiast named Ross Wilkes has created a 3D printed life-sized Iron Man suit. The project...

Today we present the heater capable of keeping two syringes loaded with chocolate always ready for using with the 3Drag. A couple of months ago we tried to surprise you by showing another astonishing transformations of our...

  Google Science Fair is a global online competition open to individuals or team from 13 to 18 years old. Submit before May, 19th to change our World! Here a video about what Science Fair is. Check...

Did you know you can find some interesting groups on Groups – Thingiverse? Since a few days you can now share your mods, prints and …whatever you like in a group which is dedicated to 3Drag users!    ...

Interesting infographics from Line//Shape//Space explains how in house 3dprinting is already competitive! And they didn’t even take into account that open source efficient 3dprinters ship for even less than 2000 $ (look at ours) There are still...

A recent research, from two important universities in Spain and in Germany, states that learning a new language stimulates the same part of the brain as having sex or eating chocolate. Of course we cannot help you...

A truly amazing infographic from the Winnipeg Free Press on 3Dprining uses 3Drag as a printer model: thanks guys! !   INFOGRAPHIC: The basics of 3D printing – Winnipeg Free Press.

Here we are, eventually the contest has come to an end and after a short consultation we have chosen the winners! Before announcing them, a few words. First of all, thanks to everyone who submitted his contribution....

  Maitre Chocolatier is born or made? Well, when it comes to creating original chocolate mixes you will probably be born, but if you want to...

Roland Hoffert, from www.eytec.de, submitted us this 3Drag (Velleman K8200 version) hack to improve the z-wobble issue, one of the most known problems affecting the RepRap family printers. Roland identified one of the weak points that could...

Karl Seiss from Austria made a very clever hack to a K8200 3DRag printer, turning it into a CNC drilling and milling machine. We didn’t receive from the author many details, anyway it used Proxxon long shaft...

Giacomo Falaschi sent us his Falla3D new printer project: you can have more details on the project by looking to this interview here. Fa)(a is a fully modular and scalable printer, able to print with any material...

This is an unusual project submitted by prof. Hesam Hamidi, who built a linear Delta printer by using recycled parts from old scanners and dot matrix printers. This FDM 3D printer has been designed and built in...

Breaking news: we got nominated as Maker of Merit at Rome Maker Faire! 3Drag, our beloved, affordable, fully open source 3Dprinter got awarded with Maker of Merit award!

Alessio Fusi hacked his 3Drag/K8200 printer by replacing the original threaded rod with a trapezoidal rod, assembled with a gearbox between it and the stepping motor with a reduction rate of 50:20. In a short time, Alessio...

Richard Tegelbeckers joined the 3Drag 3dprinting contest by sending us his project, a 3D Delta printer named DeltaTrix 3D, under the category 3D Making. The project is based on the fully open source linear Delta printer, power...