3D printing's pretty exciting. Its potential to innovate design and revolutionise industry, spanning from home interiors to biological ones, is undeniable. Indeed, 3D printers have even managed to pop up in Minecraft.
However, while robots can recreate themselves and advances in medicine are becoming increasingly 3D printing based, it's easy to overlook all the awesome, if slightly less important, stuff that designers and printing communities are churning out of 3D printers.
3D printing has encouraged communities of designers, modders and printers who are endlessly creating new things to produce through 3D printers, and sharing their designs.
Sites like Thingiverse allow designers to profile and improve upon their digital designs, which take on a new physical reality when another user prints them.
Some of the designs in our gallery are created with the concept of a digital design DNA in mind -- a notion that the intricacies of a design will change and multiply as it is shared amongst the community.
From explosion-inspired home lighting to tiny scale versions of some of our favourite things (Mars rovers and
dinosaurs, naturally), and bringing a few internet memes to tangible reality along the way, we've compiled a gallery of the coolest objects that 3D printers are responsible for. Get started in the gallery below.
This article was originally published by WIRED UK
