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Two Dutch designers, Olivier van Herpt and Joris van Tubergen, developed an open source extruder that can be used for printing with beeswax. Using this extruder anyone can create temporary disposable objects out of beeswax on their desktop 3D printers. Beeswax has a relatively low melting point range of 62 to 64 °C. Once it has been extruded in a desired shape, the beeswax hardens. The 3D printed beeswax products are completely natural, made with the help of bees, with no artificial color, no artificial scent.

It is more of an "art" project, but it could be used in some biology related or food safe 3d printing projects.


























Source pages and photo source:

http://oliviervanherpt.nl/3d-printed-beeswax/

http://www2.rooiejoris.nl/store/

Check out how to 3d print with bees:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/07/3b-printing-3d-printing-with-bees.html

Or, if you want to get into beekeeping and get your own honey and beeswax:

http://diy3dprinting.blogspot.com/2013/11/open-source-diy-beehives-with.html

You can download the design files and cut the beehives on a CNC machine.





From project webpage:

The Open Source Beehives project is a collaborative response to the threat faced by bee populations in industrialized nations around the world. The project proposes to design hives that can support bee colonies in a sustainable way, to monitor and track the health and behaviour of a colony as it develops. 

Each hive contains an open source sensory kit, The Smart Citizen Kit (SCK), which can transmit to an open data platform: Smartcitizen.me. These sensor enhanced hive designs are open and freely available online, the data collected from each hive is published together with geolocations allowing for a further comparison and analysis of the hives.

Project webpage:

http://www.opensourcebeehives.net/


Download the files at:

https://github.com/opensourcebeehives