Collaborate Disseminate
While the price of 3D printers has come down quite a lot in the past few years, filament continues to be rather pricey especially for those doing a lot of …read more Continue reading PET Bottles Diligently Turned Into Filament
When you want to build a large format 3D printer, you can’t just scale up the design of a desktop machine. In an excellent four-part build series (videos after the …read more Continue reading Large Format 3D Printer is a Serious Engineering Challenge
It’s hard to say when inspiration will strike, or what form it’ll take. But we do know that when you get that itch, it’s a good idea to scratch it, …read more Continue reading Back-to-Back Belts Drive Filament in This Unique Extruder Design
Toolchanging in 3D printers is no longer something from the bleeding edge; it’s going mainstream. E3D has a high-quality kit for a toolchanger and motion system, our own Joshua Vasquez …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Are Extruders the Only Feasible Tools for Toolchanging?
Over the weekend, Sanjay Mortimer passed away. This is a tremendous blow to the many people who he touched directly and indirectly throughout his life. We will remember Sanjay as …read more Continue reading Remembering Sanjay Mortimer, Pioneer and Visionary in 3D Printing
Over the weekend, Sanjay Mortimer passed away. This is a tremendous blow to the many people who he touched directly and indirectly throughout his life. We will remember Sanjay as …read more Continue reading Remembering Sanjay Mortimer, Pioneer and Visionary in 3D Printing
[Norbert Heinz] has been busy for the 2021 Hackaday Prize entry, working on the design of a direct granule extruder for 3D printing with waste materials, or materials that are …read more Continue reading Fifty Shades Of Brown: 3D Printing With Sugar
When it comes to innovation in FDM 3D printing, there doesn’t seem to be much room left to move the needle. Pretty much everything about filament printing has been reduced …read more Continue reading Spinning Threads Put the Bite on Filament in This Novel Extruder Design
If there’s one thing you can say about [Stefan] from CNC Kitchen, it’s that he’s methodical when he’s working on an improvement to his 3D printing processes, or when he’s …read more Continue reading An Easy Fix for Inconsistent Layers in Cheap 3D Printers
Here we are in the future, thinking we’re so fancy and cutting edge with mega-scale 3D printers that can extrude complete, ready-to-occupy buildings, only to find out that some clever …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: 3D-Printed Buildings, 1930s Style