The beginning of the DIY 3D printing movement was a heady time. There was a vision of a post-scarcity world in which everything could and would be made at home, for free. Printers printing other ...

A student at Virginia Commonwealth University wants to bring the reality an idea that 3D printing enthusiasts have so far only dreamed about – printing all the necessary parts for a 3D printer, with a ...

Quentin Harley describes himself as a self-taught hacker from Centurion, just north of Johannesburg in South Africa. He's a softly-spoken engineer for Siemens and a member of a local makers collective ...

(((Wait a minute – Ponoko is running off self-replicating rapid prototypers? What is this, an explosion in the tribble factory? We're in for it!))) "The folks at Ponoko are being very patient with me ...

GOSHEN, Ind. (WNDU) - 3D Printer operators and enthusiasts delight as the Midwest RepRap Festival, or MRRF, returns to Goshen. 3D printing companies, state-of-the-art RepRap 3D printers, and the 3D ...

3D printer manufacturer German RepRap has this week unveiled their latest creation in the form of the RepRap X350 3D printer which is now available to preorder and is priced at €2500 as an ...

3D printers are awesome. There’s a catch, though: The printers are nowhere near inexpensive enough for most people to just pick one up. We’ve seen some cheap ones like the Printrbot, but that will ...

3D printing machines such as the 'RepRap' already allow people to design and 'print out' products at home. Could this be the beginning of the end for traditional, capitalist manufacturing? Little ...

Like pretty much every other large gathering, the Midwest and East Coast RepRap Festivals had to be put on hold during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But now that the United States is cautiously ...

I read lots of science fiction. Quite a few stories involve machines that can generate “things” on demand using only raw materials. These range from food generators/replicators to the ability to ...

GOSHEN — Excited chatter over the soft whir and zip of machines, bent on painstaking tasks to grow designs from scratch, returned to the Elkhart County Fairgrounds this weekend as the Midwest RepRap ...