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, ...

Traditional subtractive manufacturing involves cutting away material to create a product, while 3D printing is an additive process that builds objects by adding material layer by layer. A 3D-printed ...

Is your 3D printer just collecting dust? We've uncovered 4 functional tools you can print right now that would help you conduct some useful tasks.

Advances in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, have generated increasingly powerful capabilities for producing geometrically complex structures that could not be made using ...

Leading 3D-printing firm Icon has revealed plans to create an ambitious new 3D-printed community for homeless people in Texas. The project will provide 100 safe and comfortable residences to those who ...

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 ...

Commentary: We need more than tinkerers and hobbyists to buy 3D printers, we need consumers. To do that, the current model has to evolve. James has been writing about technology for years but has ...