Spooky 3D Printed Pumpkin - Happy Halloween from the team at Filabot!
3-D Printing

Spooky 3D Printed Pumpkin - Happy Halloween from the team at Filabot!

The end of October is upon us, and all of us here at Filabot (and Massive Dimension) would like to wish you a very happy (and spooky) Halloween! Hopefully, you have a big pile of candy and a most e...
Experiment: Superworms & Styrofoam
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Experiment: Superworms & Styrofoam

Filabot was born from the recognition that our planet was facing a critical problem in the form of an ever-increasing and already staggering amount of plastic waste. The entire Filabot product line...
Casting Part II : Investment Casting from 3D Printed Wax
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Casting Part II : Investment Casting from 3D Printed Wax

This is the follow-up to a two-part blog installment, the first part of which was shared last week. If you didn’t catch the first post, you might want to go here  and read from the beginning! Where...
Casting Part I : Printing with Wax
EX2

Casting Part I : Printing with Wax

Working within the umbrella of additive manufacturing offers the unique opportunity to utilize the technology you have created as a tool to aid further development and support new products. Perhaps...
Wood Fill PLA Pellets Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report
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Wood Fill PLA Pellets Tolerances Compared: Material Extrusion Report

Here is one for all you additive addicts out there! Wood and plastic are often placed conceptually as antithetical materials due to their contrasting qualities- endlessly variable vs.. homogeneous ...
Printing with Coffee Part II
3-D Printing

Printing with Coffee Part II

After diving into the research on compounding PLA with spent coffee grounds accomplished at Washington State and assisted by our Filabot EX2, our brains were buzzing with the idea of making some of...
University of Utah Update: Chair Prints with Recycled PETG Filament Part 2
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University of Utah Update: Chair Prints with Recycled PETG Filament Part 2

For the final project with the Design of University of Utah Digital Assemblies  class, students were tasked with a chair design that incorporated recycled PETG filament, compounded with color pigme...
University of Utah Update: Chair Prints with Recycled PETG Filament
3d recycling

University of Utah Update: Chair Prints with Recycled PETG Filament

For the final project with the Design of University of Utah Digital Assemblies class, students were tasked with a chair design that incorporated recycled PETG filament, compounded with color pigmen...
University of Utah Update: Chair Experiments with Recycled PETG Filament
3d Recyling

University of Utah Update: Chair Experiments with Recycled PETG Filament

IMPORTANT NOTE: We're back to posting the University of Utah/ binary collaboration posts on Filabot after several weeks on Massive Dimension. If you haven't read the last few posts, please click th...