When desktop 3D printing emerged a decade ago, the phrase “plug-and-play” was thrown around a lot to describe how user-friendly a given machine was. Nevertheless, none of the original desktop systems ...

Commentary: We need more than tinkerers and hobbyists to buy 3D printers, we need consumers. To do that, the current model has to evolve. James has been writing about technology for years but has ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Despite all the hype over the past several years, 3D printing has yet to become a ...

New Matter will give away 300 3D printers to schools over the next three months in conjunction with the widespread release of its plug-and-play 3D printing systems. The company, founded in 2014, has ...

KOKONI is a new family friendly plug-and-print 3D printer created by the engineers and designers at KOKONI Tech the small, compact 3D printer is features a companion application that allows you to ...

We generally think of 3D printed components as being hard bits of plastic, because for the most part, that’s what we’ve got loaded up in our desktop machines. But outside of the normal PLA, PETG, and ...

The dirty little secret of 3D printing is that it only barely works. For every totally sweet 3D-printed bust of President Obama, there's a good chance that the printer is going to spit out "spaghetti, ...

The Bambu Lab H2S succeeds as a large-format printer that feels genuinely refined, offering scale, speed and reliability in a ...

As frontline workers and hospitals struggle to get access to enough medical equipment to deal with the rapid spread of coronavirus, a growing number of businesses are pushing what could be a promising ...

At this point, most readers will be familiar with fused deposition modeling (FDM) 3D printers, and how a plastic filament is pushed through a heater and deposited as liquid through a nozzle. Most of ...

3D printing is undoubtedly one of the most exciting technologies to really gain steam in the last decade. While the printers have actually been around for some time, smaller form factors and more ...