Collaborate Disseminate
Just as practical nuclear fusion has been “only 20 years away” for the last 80 years or so, the promise of electrical discharge machining (EDM) in the home shop seems …read more Continue reading Betta Aims to Bring Wire EDM to the Desktop
There are enough off-the-shelf CoreXY mechanisms out there that for the cost of an AliExpress order it’s possible to quickly and cheaply make yourself a plotter. But [Koushani Das], [Mahathi …read more Continue reading CoreXY on the Pi Pico
“The lathe is the only machine tool that can make copies of itself,” or so the saying goes. The reality is more like, “A skilled machinist can use a lathe …read more Continue reading Infinite Z-Axis Printer Aims to Print Itself Someday
Truth be told, we generally find speed sports to be a little boring. Whether it’s cars going around in circles for hours on end or swimmers competing to be a …read more Continue reading 3D-Printed Parts Don’t Slow Down This Speedy Printer
[Arca] sets out to build himself a low-cost pen plotter that doesn’t require access to a 3D printer. The plotter uses a coreXY arrangement, powered by 28BYJ-48 stepper motors, which …read more Continue reading The $50 Pen Plotter
When one of your design goals for a 3D printer is “fits through standard doors,” you know you’re going to be able to print some pretty big stuff. And given …read more Continue reading A 3D Printer Big Enough to Print a Kayak
When it comes to 3D printing using fused deposition modeling (FDM) technology, there are two main groups of printers: Cartesian and CoreXY, with the latter being the domain of those …read more Continue reading Ultra Light VORON X-Beam Milled From Aluminium Tube Stock
How do you improve on a fast, capable 3D printer that sports an innovative design and is portable enough to fit in a printer spool box? Judging by what went …read more Continue reading Portable 3D Printer Gets Even Smaller, Faster, Better
Plotters and drawing robots are fun projects that let you create art with all the precision and perfection that computer numerical control can deliver. [TUENHIDIY] demonstrates that ably with the …read more Continue reading Multicolor Drawbot Highlights Importance of Limit Switches
For a few years now it’s been an open secret that Prusa Research was working on a larger printer named, imaginatively enough, the Prusa XL. Positioned at the opposite end …read more Continue reading Prusa XL Goes Big, But That’s Only Half the Story