Open-source 3D printing has grown steadily, offering dependable solutions for both beginners and experienced makers. By sharing ideas and designs freely, communities around these printers have helped ...

In this era of cheap turn-key machines, the idea of actually building your own desktop 3D printer might seem odd to some. But if you’re looking for a challenge, and want to end up with a printer that ...

Try SAM 3D to create editable 3D models and meshes from images, with manual scale and rotate tools, helping beginners turn ideas into assets ...

It’s hard to overstate the impact desktop 3D printing has had on the making and hacking scene. It drastically lowered the barrier for many to create their own projects, and much of the prototyping and ...

Josef Prusa, Founder and CEO of Prusa Research, declared “open hardware desktop 3D printing” is dead. It’s a shocking statement coming from a man with the Open Source logo tattooed on his forearm. But ...

There are many reasons why 3D printing hobbyists eventually gravitate towards Klipper firmware. Some want to print faster, whereas others seek killer features like input shaping exclusive to this open ...

(Nanowerk News) Charles Wade, a PhD student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, has created a design system software package that uses functions and code to ...

The open source AI community Hugging Face has bought open source humanoid robots company Pollen Robots, Hugging Face announced this morning. That’s great news for pretty much every country that is not ...

Tom Burtonwood, “Rmutt 2.0” (2013), ABS Plastic and pigmented wax inlay (all images courtesy the artist) CHICAGO — For artist Tom Burtonwood, the transition into 3D scanning and printing was as ...

What if the next time your favorite appliance broke, you didn’t have to toss it in frustration or hunt for an expensive replacement? Instead, you could simply print the part you need—right at home or ...

A scan‑to‑print medical model. University of Colorado Boulder researchers have developed a new open-source tool that enables engineers to design multi-material 3D-printed objects like this more ...