You might be wasting more filament than you think, and most of it comes from habits that feel completely normal while ...

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 ...

If there were an award for Emerging Gadget Most Likely to Change Everything, it might well go to the 3D printer. These devices, which turn digital blueprints into physical objects made out of plastic ...

The plastic extrusion robot, developed by Vermont Technical College student Tyler McNaney, allows you to recycle all of that plastic to make usable 3D printing filament. An all-in-one tool, the ...

Functionalize announced that it had beaten its promised electrical specification by 25% and has begun customer shipments of F-Electric, the world’s most conductive 3D printing filament. Being the ...

There are a few main types of resin 3D printing, like SLA and DLP, each with its own way of hardening the liquid resin with ...

SustainaPrint uses simulations to reinforce stress zones with strong plastic while the rest prints in greener filament, cutting waste without losing strength. (Nanowerk News) 3D printing has come a ...

Although usually nylon (generally PA6) filament is pretty cheap, there are some more exotic variants out there, such as the PA12-based Lyten 3D graphene filament that comes in at a cool $150 for a 1 ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...