Now that 3D printers are cheaper to produce, experts predict it won't be long before they are common in our homes. Even today, more companies realize the potential for 3D-printed applications in their ...

A 3D printer was a surprisingly useful investment for my home lab ...

Rocket engines have evolved to the point that large pieces of them are actually 3D printed, but it's quite different from ...

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...

Examples of 3D printed products from the HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer, which allows for flexible designs with both soft and hard plastic in a single print. Co-directors of the HP-NTU Corporate Lab, ...

Once confined mainly to home-brew tinkering, circuit boards created via 3D printing are now practical for some manufactured products. J.F. Brandon, BotFactory Inc. In the past ten years, 3D Printing ...

Sci-fi devices become real all the time, and we'd argue the 3D printer is one of those. I distinctly remember as a teen when these things were becoming popular, and we all thought people would be ...

Housing affordability remains a struggle amid rising housing costs, and shortages of housing supply and skilled labor. Inventory was already limited prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and has remained ...

3D printing does sort of sound like science fiction. A machine takes some filament and then, layer by layer, forms it into a solid object. To the layperson, that may look really complicated, but as it ...

I have several 3D printers, and I’ve always been satisfied with using either Repetier or Marlin on all of them. There are a few other firmware versions that could run on my hardware, but those two ...

I have been selected to exhibit at the autumn 2026 Design Festa. The idea for what to exhibit has been with me for about 10 ...