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May 2021-National Inventors Month
Happy National Inventors Month from Root3 Labs! Check out some of our past prototypes and inventions we had the pleasure of designing.
Laser Cutter Tutorial
Conrad demonstrates some of the raster and vector cutting techniques used throughout our prototyping process using various fabrication tools.
Quarantine Experiments – The Root3 Hot Chocolate Ball
Christina demonstrates how to design and build a silicone mold that will, later on, create Root3 hot chocolate bombs.
Nitinol Cookout
Conrad reviews shape-memory alloy properties and shares a Root3 Labs hack on how to heat-set Nitinol parts at a low cost.
Pumpkin Power! How to build a Self-Powered Illuminated Pumpkin
By Dionna Moore Want to leverage your pumpkin’s untapped potential? Root3 Labs has created an easy guide to help you build your own self-powered illuminated pumpkin. Need: A pumpkin that can illuminate itself without a candle or an external power source....
Shapeoko CNC Router Tutorial
Todd gives an overview of the workflow to get from a design to a finished part using our CNC Router.
SolidWorks Tutorial – Creating Configurations
Andrey walks through three techniques for working with Solidworks “Configurations”.
Coaptech raises $2.35 million
Congratulations to our client, Coaptech, for recently raising $2.35 million in seed funding to support clinical trials and continue progress toward FDA approval of the device we developed with them to insert a feeding tube at the bedside.
Upcoming Events with Root3 Labs
Add these events to your Calendar Morning Coffee with Hardware Design Engineers November 21, 2017 8:30a - Get your morning off to a great start with coffee and bagels at Root3 Labs. Meet with other hardware engineers and designers in the Baltimore region. Share...
Multi-Material 3D-Printing
Last year Root3 Labs experimented with multi-material 3D-printing to deliver prototypes that simulated a button and gasket that would be overmolded in production. We were very happy with the results and our client was quite pleased that we were able to quickly iterate...
New Frontiers in Bio-Medical Additive Manufacturing
We're sponsoring the upcoming RAMP MD symposium to explore new bio-medical applications of additive manufacturing and 3D Printing. We'll also be speaking on a panel related to the use of AM in prototyping and manufacturing. Keynote by Congressman Andy Harris, M.D....