3D printing got cheaper, but better profiles, fewer failed prints, and useful replacement parts saved me more.

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 ...

Regular 3D printer have faced a problem since their inception: using mutliple colours and materials in a single print. Well The Prometheus System is aiming to change that by being a cheap upgrade to ...

3D printers can be expensive, but many cheaper options are available. Find out if you can tell the difference in quality ...

Here’s another project with the worthy ultimate aim of repurposing household plastic waste as useful 3D filament for making new stuff with your home 3D printer. Both the Strooder and the Filabot are ...

The Stooder is a desktop machine that melts down plastic pellets so that you can create -- or recycle -- your own filament for 3D printing. Michelle Starr Science editor Michelle Starr is CNET's ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. There are many factors that determine how well a 3D printer prints. While many of them involve tuning and tweaking the actual 3D printer itself, the ...

Most desktop 3D printers use what's called FDM (fused deposition modeling) printing. Another term is FFF (or fused filament fabrication). The idea behind both of these is that a 3D print is built up ...