Instructables: Just Released Lego 3D Printer 3.0 is More Complex & Eight Times Faster Instructables user William (W1ll14m) has allowed us to watch the evolution of a veritable work of art. There’s no greater recipe for success in designing than to be able to evaluate your own work and see what has failed and needs work, and to allow all of these processes to help you grow as an artist.Certainly no one could be harder on himself and his work than William through three iterations of the Lego 3D Printer–a common practice with some of the greatest inventors in history–placing him in good company. With each Lego 3D printer, William has pointed out what he’d like to change, as well as hinting at a new release to come in the near future. It would seem the reward of all that blood, sweat, and hot glue at the 3D printer has paid off with the Lego 3D Printer 3.0.With only a few months in between iterations, William’s come back to us stronger and faster. He lays out all the pieces you’ll need for the X and Y axes in a very concise fashion, and even after looking at several of these machines from William, as well as other Lego style 3D printers, it’s still pretty amazing to think that you can take these parts which could have come out of your child’s toy bin and begin a veritable 3D printing mini-factory in your basement
, should you wish.With numerous visuals in William’s Instructable (he’s not big on words here), you’ll be able to figure out how to put together all of the various Lego components that make up this printer, including the doors, which are responsible for its equilibrium.All the parts are laid out for the Z axis in the Instructable and then you can really see 3.0 coming together in structure. (With the use of Legos, it is truly amazing how easy it is to offer a visual show of what to do in assembly.)Be sure to come equipped with the integral pieces to the Lego 3D Printer–a glue gun and handy paperclip–as you get ready to put together quite the aesthetically pleasing glue extruder.“Bend the paper clip in a way that it partially stuffs the hole of the gluegun nozzle,” states William. “This will allow for a more controlled extrusion process.”Once you have that assembled, the last step is to integrate the software supplied by William. You–and everyone else–are going to be quite pleased not only with the 3D printing ahead of you–but just with the colorful and tidy results demonstrated in the appearance of this printer that also appears to be highly functioning–and indeed, with glue-if William’s posted test results are any indication.
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It’s been a busy couple of weeks here at GLUE. We’ve moved into a new office (more on that soon!), got some amazingly skilled people on board and are hard at work on some new and exciting projects. It’s all non-stop at the moment. That said, now that the dust has settled a little bit, we’d like to take a couple of minutes to sit down and share with you some of the feedback and monitor how the video trends online we received for our latest project which we made for a PR company based in the UK on behalf of LEGO. That project is of course, the LEGO Eurovision video celebrating 60 years of the competition. In case you haven’t already seen it, we’d recommend you to check it out. Our main goal when creating the video was to emulate the look and feel of real life LEGO as much as possible. We wanted users to believe they were watching a stop-motion animation. Our task was to recreate some iconic Eurovision acts in LEGO form. The acts requested by our clients were Abba, Brotherhood of Man, Buck’s Fizz, Lordi and Riverdance.
This involved extensive research into each act so that we could nail their look in LEGO form. Using the latest practises in modelling, texturing, lighting and effects, we set out on creating the best looking LEGO character models this side of the LEGO Movie. We’re delighted with the results. If you want a more technical breakdown of how we made this video, check out our blog post on the process. Overall, we couldn’t be happier with how the video was received. It’s already been viewed over 28,000 times on Lego’s Youtube channel and has been liked and shared all over social media. Here’s some of the websites and people who loved the video we helped to create: Metro UK – However much fun the Eurovision Song Contest may be, LEGO might have just made it a little more awesome Silicon Republic – Lego Eurovision tribute includes Riverdance and is perfection Herald Scotland – The hilarious clip even has that skirt throwing move perfected by Buck Fizz down to a tee
Demanjo – the Danish toymaker has only gone and created the most wonderful 60th Anniversary Eurovision tribute known to (The Brotherhood of) man — DailyEdge.ie (@dailyedge) May 20, 2015 Watch an amazing Lego tribute to Eurovision http://t.co/7yxQvOZjAG #Eurovision2015 — Gigwise (@Gigwise) May 21, 2015 How cool is this tribute from LEGO to wish Eurovision Song Contest Happy 60th Birthday! — Emma Harris (@MeTheManAndKids) May 20, 2015 — 20minutos.es (@20m) May 20, 2015 We received so much positive feedback from our Eurovision video that we were asked to make a LEGO version of Take That in order to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Manchester Arena. We’re delighted to see that people are enjoying viewing the video as much as we did making it. We look forward to working on more fun and exciting products in the future. Over the next few days, be sure to come back to the blog for a look at our new offices. We’ll also be at the CoderDojo Coolest Projects Awards 2015 this weekend.