3D Printed Car Navigation based on Raspberry Pi

Greg Holloway made a car navigation system based on Raspberry Pi and 7 inch screen that is held by 3d printed dashboard structure. It was printed on E3D BigBox machine with the help of SpoolWorks scaffold soluble support material.
The car is Suzuki Jimny. Software used is open source Navit.

Detailed step-by-step construction guide can be found at:

http://www.instructables.com/id/3D-Printed-In-Dash-GPS-Navigation-Raspberry-Pi-3/

Thingiverse page for the files:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1701583

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Free webinar on 3d printed car parts and car mods

Here is new free webinar from GoEngineer focusing on 3d printed car parts, car accessories and car modifications.

If you are interested in cars, car hacking, car repair, hypermiling, modding, car tuning and have access to any type of 3d printer this video will give you lots of useful tips, information and practical examples. You could theoretically make any plastic part needed for your car and customize it to fit your needs.

Webinar is presented by Tyler Reid, it is focused on Stratasys technology but the knowledge and is applicable to other 3d printers.

3d printed car parts presented here are:

• gauge bezel
• firewall feedtrough
• wire tee box
• throttle body spacer
• battery charging box

Here is video webinar, one hour well spent ;-):

Here is a picture of installed wire tee box:

Great tutorial, thank you for the content Tyler and GoEngineer team!

There are many more similar high quality tutorials, like:

3d printed jigs and fixtures:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/08/free-webinar-on-3d-printing-jigs-and.html

or 3d printed end user parts:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/07/free-webinar-of-3d-printed-end-use-parts.html

Here you can see another example of home 3d printers being used to make small replacement parts like AC button and cargo cover holder:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/08/repairing-ford-focus-cargo-cover.html

Update:

Here is a new webinar about complex geometry and 3d printing:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2014/12/free-webinar-on-3d-printing-and.html

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3d printed car parts by Objet

Video of Objet presentation models. There are printed on industral scale 3d printers, but still the technology is fascinating.
Video shows regular size fully functioning car dashboard printed, glued and painted. The joints on it are moving and everything looks very solid and detailed. After it, the functioning 3d printed car part is shown followed by some 3d prited industrial molds and skateboard. In the end there is working 3d printed hand drill.
First thing that came to my mind after watching it was how much I paid for some replacement plastic parts for my 2001 A-class. Few broken small handles and plating for seat adjustment. Too much I can tell you, not to mention I waited for them two weeks. I have a feeling that it would be much cheaper if technology was wider spread since the resolution needed to print those parts I needed is achievable by today's diy 3d printers.

It is taken on EuroMold with Jonathan Jaglom Objet VP of Sales Operations.

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