Hacked Formlabs 3D Printer Plays a Game of Spacewar

3D printers are becoming so ubiquitous that even the higher-end machines like Form 1 and Form 2 are being used to make gaming projects like this Spacewar setup.

Matt Keeter used electronics and lasers from Form 2 and cover from Form 1, programmed it in Haskell and made a classic video game playable on a hardware of gutted SLA 3d printer.

Here is the hardware connected:

Here is a photo of the projected game objects, link to the video is listed bellow:

Detailed build guide, the code and video of project working can be found at:

http://www.mattkeeter.com/projects/spacewar/

Source-code is available at GitHub:

https://github.com/mkeeter/spacewar

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Full Armor Suit 3D Printed for Cosplay

Natasha Spokish spent 500 hours designing and 3D printing this ubercool cosplay Nova Terra armor suit.

Here is imgur album with much more pictures of the design and build process:

3D Printed Nova Cosplay (Starcraft/Heroes of the Storm)

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3D printed Robotic Fighers

Here is a video of 3D PRINTED ROBOTS FIGHTING! Wonderful destruction of DIY Battlebots in the combat arena! It was posted by altapowderdog from CIRC BotBrawl 2014.

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Toyze app will 3d print your custom game characters

Toyze is a 3d startup that enables you to make custom 3d figurines from game characters and get them dmade by 3d printing and delivered to your home. I still don't see any GTA or Battlefield figurines, but maybe one day ... probably not ...

They have over 500 million downloads

http://www.toyze.com/

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DIY RasPI powered gameboy with 3d printed enclosure

Here is another great project by Adafruit. You can build you own portable Gameboy clone and load it up with one of many custom ROM packages. I wish I had the time to build this, but it will go to the bucket list.

Detailed build guide on Adafruit learning system: https://learn.adafruit.com/pigrrl-raspberry-pi-gameboy

Thingiverse: http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:382485

Made by Thingiverse user djecom

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3D Printer in Minecraft

Virtual 3d printers made inside popular indie Minecraft game that use in-game physics and building elements. They took a lot of time to develop and build. Kudos to you builders!





Update:

here is another one:




and another one ...




and another one ... with a 3d scanner ...

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NESPo - portable retro gaming

Dave Nunez developed this 3d printed portable NES like gaming device. I like it.

http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:131776

http://davenunez.wordpress.com/2013/08/16/building-the-nespo/

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