We’ll be at MECSPE 2014
This will be the week of MECSPE (from 27th to 29th of march), the reference exhibition for the manufacturing industry, the meeting point between production technologies and industrial supply chains in Italy. Design for Craft will be in the 3d print Hub, an international appointment to identify trends and development of 3D where we’ll show you some of our latest research on materials for FFF 3d printing. We’ll perform a speech the 27th at 16pm: “FROM MAKERS OF OBJECTS TO MAKERS OF MATERIALS: FILAMENT ON DEMAND PRINTING 3D.” We’ll be happy to meet you there.
Marble!
Our research on new materials for 3d printing is on the go. So here’s a new material called Marble. It’s awesome for crafts and all the objects that has to be finished because you can smooth it and paint easy, it just like plaster! Our Marble material contains marble powder and could be printed at 200°C without any problem (with heated bed at a low temperature). It comes in the Stick Filament format, now in 3.0 mm and soon in 1.75 mm
The Saffo’s statue as it’s been printed, smoothed and, finally, painted
As you can see in the video below, Marble is ideal for hobbyists and for craft works because you can work its “chalky” surface with various tools. It will be available for purchasing in www.stickfilament.com very soon.
The 1.75 mm Stick Filament is born!
Lots of people asked for the 1.75 mm version of the Stick Filament. Here it is! This is the first print test with this new baby child in our family: a 1.75 mm stick in HIPS. Soon we’ll have it in ABS, PLA and the other materials previously available for the 3 mm. We plan to have it ready for the market soon.
Stick Filament works everywhere
Finally we have a 3Doodler pen in our lab. It works fine and we enjoy making stuff so we have tested it with our Stick Filament and… the pen is easier to use! Yes, with normal filaments supplied bundled with the pen you must stop each time the filament ends. This happens very quickly and is quite annoying. With Stick Filaments, instead, just join together the extremities in order to have a continuous printing without any problems. Great!
We are on Indiegogo!
Hi folks,
great news from Design for Craft. From today we start a campaign on Indiegogo for the Stick Filaments.
We have developed the system with our resources in the last months, we tested it and we are glad to say that the results are incredibles. Anyway we want to develop it and make it affordable for everyone. Now, we need your help for take Stick Filament to the next step: the full production.
This system doesn’t want to replace the spool, but to increase the range of available colors and innovative materials. We think Stick Filaments are the best choice for desktop 3D printing and special manufacturing.
Someone think that Stick Filament’s main characteristic is the easy use and the multicolor printing with one hot end but there’s a lot more… Thanks to the Stick’s production process we can design filaments with materials not available with the common filament in spool. An example: wax! Yes, we are testing a wax filament for 3d printing. That’s why we are really aware that Stick Filaments make possible new applications for 3d printing.
Support us on Indiegogo (here’s the link), follow our campaign and share in your network.
Thank you all!
We are shipping
Hi, we are proud to say that, finally, we start shipping our early pre-orders for the Stick Filaments. Within the 25th january we plan to complete all the shipment of the pre-orders we collected until 11th january. Thank you for supporting our idea!
Happy (colored) Christmas!
We wish you all a colored Christmas and a happy smart year! Next year will be exciting, follow us for further and great news about 3d printing materials.
Scented filaments for 3D printing!
Here we go again, we have a wonderful new material for 3d printing. Who ever printed with ABS (which by the way has to be printed under certain conditions of security) knows the smell of the plastic during the melting process. Furthermore, the plastics do not have a good smell even after the production phase. So we thought: why not make a scented plastic? And we did it.
Ladies and gentlemen: we present the filament that smells of vanilla! Your lab will smell good during your prints and, furthermore, the smell will be maintained by the object even after you have printed it. Cool, isn’t it? The filament Vanilla, along with other varieties of Stick Filament, is on sale for pre-order at WWW.STICKFILAMENT.COM very soon. Check it out!
Stick Filaments ready to go!
We worked hard for a wonderful Stick Filament launching site and now… here it is! Stick Filament is a innovative 3d printing format for plastic filaments with many “pro”.
EASY, because you can load the filament in the 3d print simply avoiding any twisting;
COMFORTABLE, because you can have a tidy desktop;
COLORED, because you can print multicolor objects from the same extruder;
CHEAP, because you can buy small quantity of filament also with the choise of more colours;
WISE, because you can reduce as much as possible the wasting of not used filament;
TECHNOLOGICAL, because Stick filament could be produced with many different materials, difficult to find in spool;
SMART, because you can customize materials and colours on demand.
From today you can pre-order them in our new site in three different versions: Mix Pack (multicolor filaments in PLA and HIPS) and Photolum Pack (phosphorescent HIPS). The Sticks are, at the moment, available only in 3mm.
We need at least 100 pre-orders for the production start-up and then we’ll be ready to go for the shipping! 🙂
The upgrading of ourself
Design for Craft supports the National Convention of Spina Bifida organized by AMISB (October 27th, 2013 in Civitanova Marche). Spina bifida is a developmental congenital disorder caused by the incomplete closing of the embryonic neural tube. We want to send a message that we hope will be helpful to many. The increasing diffusion of technology “open” and digital fabrication can give a real contribution to the solution of some problems of the disability, but few are aware of that outside of the maker’s world.
In this site, we have shown some examples for the upgrading of everyday objects. It’s important to know that a new way of thinking and produce useful items and support to our living situations under difficult conditions is now possible thanks to the “ad personam” production of prostheses and aids with new tools, easy, cheap and friendly. Check out this video.
This can happen with our lead role in the problem solving process. Nowadays the upgrading can also relate to ourselves and our physical conditions, so we should call it “self upgrading”.
