I recently picked up 3D printing as a hobby. It almost feels unreal to be able to print pretty much any object I want to. From a door hinge for fixing a broken closet to shelves for my kitchen cabinet ...

A rule you can follow and use every time you print.

Good 3D printers now have multiple hot ends. You ought to be able to print in different colors or print support material. However, a lot of us don’t have multiple hot ends. Turns out, you don’t have ...

The next frontier of desktop 3D printing is multi-material and multi-color prints. Right now, you can buy a dual toolhead for a Lulzbot, and dual toolheads from other companies exist, although they ...

The problem: folk are finding wear and gouging under the driven hobbed gear of a certain type of dual-drive extruder. In the photo right of a partially assembled dual-drive, it would be in the red ...

A growing number of academic and industrial research groups regard the integration of artificial intelligence-based algorithms into the 3D printing process as a promising approach to improve the ...

There are many factors that determine how well a 3D printer prints. While many of them involve tuning and tweaking the actual 3D printer itself, the filament you print with may be one of the most ...

A breakthrough in additive manufacturing, the new 3D printing technology combines multiple extruders into a single, high-output stream, delivering precise, multi-material prints with virtually zero ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...