Get practical ideas for printing everyday tools and home upgrades that'll actually make your 3D printer worth the space it ...

[MirageC] is a bit of a contrarian. Instead of taking pictures of 3D printed objects that show them in their best light, he takes pictures that show them at their worst. The reason? He wanted to ...

Cheap printers spend most of their build budget on getting the motion system right, which is to say that the bones of these ...

On its face, 3D printing is pretty simple — it’s basically just something to melt plastic while being accurately positioned in three dimensions. But the devil is in the details, and there seems to be ...

A team of researchers led by the University of Cambridge has developed a new technique that uses high-energy lasers to fine tune the properties of 3D-printed metal without compromising the complex ...

The Wild West era of 3D printing, which early adopters like me have enjoyed for so long, is fading away. But as the industry grows, that's not a bad thing.

Xiamen University and UC Berkeley develop laser-assisted 3D printing for high-resolution, free-standing thermoset struct ...

Mechanical engineering student 3D-prints a playable acoustic guitar, making instruments affordable and accessible.

For a couple of years now, I’ve been trying to find an excuse to buy a decent 3D printer. Friends and fellow Ars staffers who had them would gush about them at every opportunity, talking about how ...