3D Printing Projects: Toys, Bots, Tools, and Vehicles To Print Yourself
Description
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.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. In Make: 3D Printing Projects, you’ll: Print and
assemble a modular lamp that’s suitable for beginners–and quickly gets you
incorporating electronics into 3D-printed structures. Learn about RC vehicles
by fabricating–and driving–your own sleek, shiny, and fast Inverted Trike.
Model a 1950s-style Raygun Pen through a step-by-step primer on how to augment
an existing object through rapid prototyping. Fabricate a fully functional,
battery-powered screwdriver, while learning how to tear down and reconstruct
your own tools. Get hands-on with animatronics by building your own set of
life-like mechanical eyes. 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. Build and customize a bubble-blowing robot,
flower watering contraption, and a DIY camera gimbal. Read more
Features:
Product Details:
- Publisher : Make Community, LLC; 1st edition (December 8, 2015)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 281 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1457187248
- ISBN-13 : 47
- Reading age : 11 – 17 years
- Item Weight : 1.21 pounds
- Dimensions : 7.5 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #150,425 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #21 in 3D Printing Books #55 in Model Building #66 in Architectural Drafting & Presentation
- #21 in 3D Printing Books