Over the last few years, 3D-printed housing has been gaining attention worldwide as a faster, cheaper & sustainable way 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 ...

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 ...

As amazing as the human body is, it’s unfortunately not as amazing as e.g. axolotl bodies are, in the sense that they can ...

Depending on where you live, accessing a 3D printer might be simpler than you expect. A nearby public library should be your ...

Even though 3D printing got its start in the 1980s when Chuck Hull designed and printed a small cup, it’s been in the last few years that the printers became cheaper to produce and therefore used in a ...

Slant 3D] has a useful video explaining some thoughtful CAD techniques for designing 3D printed pins that don’t break and the ...

Thermosets, such as epoxy and silicon rubbers, are a class of polymer (i.e., plastic) materials that harden permanently when they undergo a specific chemical reaction, known as "crosslinking." These ...