Well, this is timely. We saw a lot of things at Midwest RepRap Festival this year on both the printer and the material fronts. We told you about the delicious offerings made possible through remote ...

Quentin Harley describes himself as a self-taught hacker from Centurion, just north of Johannesburg in South Africa. He's a softly-spoken engineer for Siemens and a member of a local makers collective ...

One feature that really sets the MM1 apart from competitors is its paste extrusion system. This add-on extrusion system costs $299 and consists of six different plastic nozzle diameters and 10 metal ...

While bits of plastic are the usual material for 3D printers, there are hundreds of other materials that are equally well suited for 3D printing. One of the most famous is chocolate, a material so ...

3D printing has boldly made its way into the consumer market. But most desktop printers are limited to printing plastics which limits what can be created with these machine despite the fact that they ...

The problem with most 'affordable' 3D printers, says South African inventor Richard van As, is that they're too fragile to be of much use in the field. Ever since the first low cost RepRap 3D printers ...

As a man who loves things that come out of tubes, I am excited about the Discov3ry Extruder. Designed as an add-on to popular 3D printers, the system is essentially a plunger connected to a nozzle ...

Imagine having a machine for $500 in your living room that can take your computer based specification for a 3D object and print out a plastic replica of the object in a matter of minutes. Imagine ...

h3. Desktop 3D printer for your home! I want to add this to my collection of garage implements. The RepRap is a desktop 3D printer capable of self replication. It was designed by the Adrian Boyer at ...

I've been interested in 3-D printers ever since I saw one at a Maker Faire a few years ago, but it was only a year ago when I started seriously thinking about having one of my own. At that point, I ...