It would be great if you could create your own filament. On the face of it, it seems easy to do, but as [Thomas Sanladerer] found out when he was a student, there are a lot of details that can bedevil ...

Multicolor 3D printers have been around for a while, but most of these machines – like the Makerbot Replicator – suffer from alignment problems and the inability to mix colors on the fly. [RichRap] ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

Hugh Lyman, an 83-year-old retiree from Enumclaw, Washington, won The Desktop Factory Competition with his design for a low-cost, open-source machine capable of turning resin pellets into inexpensive ...

This started off as a review of the Printrbot Simple, a low-cost 3D printer by the people at Printrbot in California. Printrbot originally came about through a Kickstarter campaign by a guy named ...

3D printers can solve so many organizational problems around the house, but every once in a while, issues arise that can bring the whole project to a halt.

The Beeverycreative Beethefirst ($2,499), the kickoff product from Portuguese company Beeverycreative, is not your typical 3D printer. It has a handsome and compact frame design, is easy enough to set ...

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed a 3D printer capable of producing a fully functional linear motor in just a few hours.

As a dual-extruder 3D printer—the first that we've tested—the MakerBot Replicator 2X ($2,799) can print plastic objects in two colors. Print quality is generally good, for both two-color and ...