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The Basics of Extrusion
If you are a recent recipient of a Filabot extrusion system, you might feel a bit unsure of what each of the specific components is for, or how to make them all work in harmony. We like to think th...
3-D Printing
Spooky 3D Printed Pumpkin - Happy Halloween from the team at Filabot!
The end of October is upon us, and all of us here at Filabot (and Massive Dimension) would like to wish you a very happy (and spooky) Halloween! Hopefully, you have a big pile of candy and a most e...
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Experiment: Superworms & Styrofoam
Filabot was born from the recognition that our planet was facing a critical problem in the form of an ever-increasing and already staggering amount of plastic waste. The entire Filabot product line...
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University of Utah Update: Prototyping - Test Prints (Desktop)
Building off their form explorations, using prompts such as Aleatory Methods, Protest as Form, and For Loops, activity for the MDD Digital Assemblies class now turned to physical prototyping of the...
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University of Utah Update: Form Exploration - Aleatory Methods
Students were grouped and tasked with exploring form using 1-2 of the following design prompts: Material Arcs, Protest as Form, Tactile Communication, Fascination, For Loops, and Aleatory Methods.
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University of Utah Update: Material experimentation (additives)
MDD Digital Assemblies students were asked to select a material additive by following one of three design prompts: color study, sound/acoustic study, and scent study.
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University of Utah Update: Pre-Experimentation Experimentation
To prompt the MDD Digital Assemblies students - and satiate some of our own curiosities - professor Milad Mozari and Matt Sutton of binary initiated some experiments using powdered additives spanni...
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3d printing as a tool for sustainability.
Will Amos and Aldrin Lupisan are two UC Irvine undergraduate students who’ve been valued customers for about two years now. After meeting on a Solar Decathlon team in which they were tasked with cr...
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We’re helping to create complex parts to solve today’s complex problems
Filabot began back in 2011 in the same way that a lot of small businesses get their start: with a Kickstarter campaign. Our campaign raised more than 323% of its funding goal—not too shabby for wha...