3D printing, along with other desktop fabrication technologies like laser cutting and CNC, is becoming affordable and easy enough to use that we expect to see increasing adoption among end users, ...

Have you ever found yourself staring at a tangle of wires, wishing there was an easier way to bring your electronics project to life? If you’ve dabbled in DIY electronics, you know that creating ...

Well, if we ever need something huge built on a RepRap, now we know who to call. [Jim] over at Grass Roots Engineering wrote in to share a large 3D print he just finished, which was extruded by an ...

Over the last couple of years we have featured many different types of 3D printers ranging in price from a tens of thousands of pounds to just a few. However more recently we have seen the prices drop ...

What do a car-parts engineer, commercial landlord and prototype contractor have in common? They love to create stuff from scratch using old- and new-school tools, from saws to 3D printers, and they’re ...

[Credit: Ben Heck/Element14] 3D printers are pretty incredible things, right? Serial modder Ben Heck thinks so too, especially considering how so many of the parts for his various projects were made ...

For decades 3D printing has been available in some form, but it wasn’t until the likes of MakerBot and other startups who began producing affordable hardware for the hobby to really take off. In the ...

Unless you've been living under a rock, you will know the latest tech in the gardening world is robotic lawnmowers. They have been talked about for the better part of the last decade, but even so, ...

In this video, we explore the new software update for the X-Carve CNC, known as Easel 3D, which enables the adaptation of 3D ...

If you have a 3D printer, your nozzle and heater block are invariably covered in a weird goo consisting of decomposed and burnt plastic. There’s only one way around this – a nozzle sock, or a silicone ...