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I recently turned my research on 3D printed PPE into an AI-generated podcast—and it changed how I think about sharing science. In this post, I explore how podcasting academic work makes complex 3D printing research more accessible, and introduce Podcast My Paper, a tool that lets researchers easily convert their papers into custom podcasts, complete with voice, tone, and even video options.

If you came across the launch of 3D Print My Shirt on Kickstarter, you know we set out on a bold mission to revolutionise custom apparel using 3D printing technology. Our Kickstarter campaign was an exciting step toward making this vision a reality, but despite gaining a passionate following and raising 56% of our funding … Continue reading 3D Print My Shirt: The Next Chapter – Now Live on Etsy!

3D printing has already reshaped industries like manufacturing, healthcare, and even food. Now, it’s turning heads in the fashion world. With the launch of my new Kickstarter project, 3D Print My Shirt, I’m thrilled to bring the innovation of 3D printing to a wardrobe staple: the humble T-shirt. Why 3D Printing? Why T-Shirts? For years, … Continue reading Revolutionizing Fashion: 3D Printing Meet…

I’m extremely excited to share some news with you all! For the past 2 years I’ve been writing a book that is specifically focussed on 3D printing strategies and case studies for product designers. I’ve been lucky enough to work with Prof. Jennifer Loy and Prof. Olaf Diegel, both very well known leaders in the … Continue reading Book: 3D Printing For Product Designers

In my previous post I detailed my first efforts creating a 3D printable NFT collection. At that stage I had created all the 3D models and shared them on the OpenSea platform, but I hadn’t 3D printed any of them. Well, now I have! Having created and 3D printed countless voronoi and lattice structures, I … Continue reading 3D Printing my NFT Collection

Welcome to my first post about NFT’s and 3D Printing! If you’re new to NFTs like me, I hope you find this interesting with a few little tips and tricks along the way. If I can say one thing about NFTs (aka. Non-Fungible Tokens), it’s that they’re difficult to wrap your head around. Even just … Continue reading My First NFT Collection for 3D Printing

Recently there’s been quite a lot of attention on the use of 3D printing to manufacture artificial eyes (aka. ocular prostheses). This has largely been due to an announcement out of the UK that the world’s first 3D printed artificial eye was implanted in a patient. Quite a cool milestone and application of 3D printing, … Continue reading The Rise of 3D Printed Prosthetic Eyes

Let me start this off by agreeing with you – yes, this is a weird idea! But when you work at the Herston Biofabrication Institute and spend most of your days working on neurosurgery and other medical projects, it hopefully makes a bit more sense why anyone would 3D print a “Merry Xmas” brain to … Continue reading Xmas Brain Decoration

Authors: James Novak, The University of Queensland | Andrew Novak, The University of Technology Sydney ** Please note: this is a copy of an article I wrote for The Conversation, published on 3rd September, 2021, and is shared under a CC-BY-ND license. You can access the original article by clicking here.** Major sporting events like the Paralympics are a breeding … Continue reading From bespoke s…

It’s official – my entire house now uses 3D printed light covers! If you follow this blog you may have seen some of my previous indoor light covers, featuring a 3D scanned sea urchin shell and a pineapple. Of course, I couldn’t stop with indoor lights, especially since the outdoor wall-mounted lights on my house … Continue reading 3D Printed Outdoor Lights in PETG

My desk is covered with 3D prints, some of them my own designs, and others are just cool examples of what can be done with a home 3D printer. This is one of those examples. Stian Ervik Wahlvaag (@agepbiz) has created a clever range of 3D printed vehicles known as “Tiny Surprise Eggs” – why? … Continue reading 3D Printed Toys with Moving Parts

3D printing is a slooooow process. While 3D printing geeks like me can spend hours watching a printer lay down layers of plastic, it often turns manufacturers off who are used to rapid manufacturing process like injection moulding where parts can be pumped out every few seconds. However, there is a way to produce products … Continue reading 3D Printing Build Farms

If you’re into 3D printing, no doubt you are familiar with some of the ways it is being used in sports. Some of my own products (above) have included a 3D printed bicycle frame, smart bicycle helmet and surf fins, while in the media products have included shoes, golf clubs and shin pads. However, as … Continue reading 3D Printing in Sport – Hit or Hype?

Anyone with a 3D printer will no doubt be familiar with Thingiverse, an online database of files that can be searched, downloaded and 3D printed; a universe of things. I’ve been using it for 7 years, and you can find many of my projects from this blog available there. While the platform isn’t without its … Continue reading Popular 3D Prints on Thingiverse

Brackets are pretty boring, I know, but being able to 3D print exactly what you need, for just a few cents, just makes good sense (see what I did there?). I wanted to mount a LED strip underneath my kitchen bench top, but also wanted it to run off batteries so I didn’t have chunky … Continue reading 3D Printed Mounting Brackets

3D printing light covers and lamps are always fun projects, you can’t really go wrong. Continuing from a previous post where I outlined the process of designing sea urchin light covers for my house, I’ve still been wanting to design another light cover to mix things up so each room isn’t the same. Enter the … Continue reading 3D Printed Pineapple Light

Recently I was asked to put together a Meshmixer tutorial for students studying additive manufacturing at Deakin University. The result: a 20min demo project to show you how to turn a pretty standard brake lever into something really cool for 3D printing. If you scroll through the tutorial section of this blog you will find … Continue reading Meshmixer Tutorial: Brake Lever Lattice

Early followers of this blog may be familiar with several projects to 3D print kiteboard and stand up paddle (SUP) board fins, including some fins you can freely download if you’re into kitesurfing. It’s been a little while between posts on this topic, however, I have been busy in the background producing a system to … Continue reading Customising Surf Fins for 3D Printing

As the graphic above shows, 3D printing a face shield is twice as fast as 3D printing a face mask. How do I know? In my latest journal article called A quantitative analysis of 3D printed face shields and masks during COVID-19, I documented 37 face shields and 31 face masks suitable for fused filament … Continue reading 3D Printed Face Shields vs. Masks

Sometimes you see a design online and just have to 3D print it! This is an amazing 3D topographic map of the Hawaiian island Oahu, and for anyone that’s been there you should be able to make out the airport, Pearl Harbour and Waikiki areas. Thanks to Eric Pavey who created this model and detailed … Continue reading 3D Printed Oahu, Hawaii