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"Yeah, plastic pollution is killing me." - The Ocean
Recycling is a good concept and has benefits. Take something that isn’t useful anymore and turn it into something useful. Aluminium cans, newspapers, cardboard all move down the waste stream and be...
STUDY: Comparing Virgin and Recycled PLA Filament
At Filabot we’re always trying to do our best, to make sure that we stand behind our products in an informed way. And in our quest for better products, more recycling, and information we’ve gotten ...
#3DThursday: Kevin's Tail Light
If you've been following this blog you know that at Filabot, we have fun. And when we aren't doing the work we're supposed to be doing we're taking advantage of our various printers, filaments and ...
#filamentfriday: Virtual Foundry Copper “Filamet”
Here at Filabot we’re always testing out and trying new processes and products to expand our knowledge and have some fun.
Printing with metals is a seriously cool thing and we’ve been hard pressed ...
#3DThursday: Four Wheeler Parts
What's cool about working at Filabot besides the fact that we get to work with the Filabot? Many, many things. But since we're in the 3D Printing community, we decided to post about what we get to ...
Waste Equals Food
If you’ve been following along, here at Filabot we’ve been reading Cradle to Cradle, a book by William McDonough & Michael Braungart about remaking the way we make things. It’s a book about int...
3-D Printing
Potent Rope: Edible Cannabis Filament
Yeah, let that sink in. Edible. Cannabis. Filament. Whoa.
Potent Rope is the brainchild of Paige Colen and Ashley Herr, two sisters who are making a huge difference in both the cannabis and 3D pri...
The Book That is Not a Tree
Here at Filabot we're fans of ideas, innovation and design. We like stuff that does stuff that hasn't been done before (cough, cough: the Filabot itself).
The Filabot was designed and created to t...
Fidget. Filabot. Filament.
Fidget spinners. What are they? Where did they come from? We don’t know and we’re not sure. What we are sure of is that fidget spinners are made of plastic and here at Filabot we recycle plastic.
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