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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

Advances in additive manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, have generated increasingly powerful capabilities for producing geometrically complex structures that could not be made using ...

Much of the technology that dominates our world today had its beginnings in the 1980s, including PCs, video games, the cell phone – and 3D printing. When he invented it 33 years ago, Chuck Hull couldn ...

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 ...