It’s a doorknob or a crib part from a mom in suburbia.” Clearly, 3-D printing is a boon to personal consumption, but the machines can potentially provide great social value as well.

In concept, an everyday sewing machine could make embroidery a snap ... but this new design really takes advantage of 3D printing as well as the increased availability of cheap and effective ...

Advancements in 3-D printing – a machine that can layer materials to create three-dimensional objects – have skyrocketed in recent years. But while many associate the technology with pointless ...

As 3-D printing gets cheaper and cheaper ... By the early 20th century, the state of the art was the mimeograph machine, which used ink to produce a small set of copies that got weaker with ...

An argument for why additive manufacturing offers a viable alternative for guard design that is better suited to today’s machines and ... moves as fast as the next print. Every loop through ...

More print heads mean more plastic is laid down per unit of time. As long as you can maximise the nozzle diameter and machine speed, it should theoretically be possible to speed things up massively.