As Louis Carroll's Humpty Dumpty says to Alice in Wonderland, "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." The "cover open ...

With 3D printers dropping below the US$200 mark, the home 3D printing revolution appears to be getting into full swing, which is great ... if you want to make things out of plastic. Unfortunately, the ...

You may have heard of 3D printers—they’ve been all over the news. But you may not know that they represent real opportunity for small business owners. While 3D printers have been around since the ...

PWDR is an open source, inkjet-based 3-D printer that has the potential to bring a *Wizard of Oz-*like range of color to the previously black and white world of additive fabrication. When completed, ...

If you follow the desktop 3D printer market, it probably won’t surprise you to hear that nearly every 3D printer on display at the inaugural East Coast RepRap Festival (ERRF) was made in China. Even ...

A new type of open source 3D printer called the Mamba3D has been unveiled this week, and its creators, MyMatics, are shortly set to launch a new Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign to help construct the ...

Until now, 3D printing has been a polymer affair, with most people in the maker community using the machines to make all manner of plastic consumer goods, from tent stakes to chess sets. A new ...

There's nothing quite like crafting your own gear, and 3D printers make that possible on a whole new level. There are plenty of useful 3D printer projects that can level up your home, and of course ...

Arduino may be known for revolutionizing open source hardware platforms, but this week enters the 3D printer market with the small and (relatively) affordable Materia 101. Produced in partnership with ...

Interest in 3D printers continues to grow and, as time goes on, more 3D printers are being offered to consumers and professionals alike. For software giant Autodesk, it is trying to simplify 3D ...