Additive manufacturing leaders are focusing on defense, helping the U.S. military move from 'futuristic visions' to ...

A design innovation researcher at the Glasgow School of Art named Fergus Fullarton Pegg designed a 3D-printed orthosis for his young cat Sprocket after it was hit by a car and mauled by a dog six ...

Clinical researchers have developed and patented a 3D-printed surgical capsule for biopsies that promises to change the way ...

California-based architecture studio Smith|Allen built Echoviren, the world’s first structure made using 3D-printing technology. Measuring 10 x 10 x 8 foot, it was built from 585 PLA bio-plastic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. We write what’s on our minds. This article is more than 10 years old. We are a few years away from a printed economy – an economy ...

An open-source 3D printer is a device where all or some of the materials required to create the printer and the software that ...

Examples of 3D printed products from the HP Multi Jet Fusion 3D printer, which allows for flexible designs with both soft and hard plastic in a single print. Co-directors of the HP-NTU Corporate Lab, ...

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...

Across Europe, 3D-printed housing has quietly crossed a threshold: projects that once took weeks of continuous printing are ...

You also can 3D-print tools when teaching new operators, or in situations where manufacturing speed or safety matters more ...

When you hear the word "printer," you probably think of that machine connected to your computer that spits out boarding passes, greeting cards, and photos (sometimes guzzling ink in the process). Well ...

I have several 3D printers, and I’ve always been satisfied with using either Repetier or Marlin on all of them. There are a few other firmware versions that could run on my hardware, but those two ...