I've been in the 3D printing hobby for a long time. Back then, you had a choice between industrial machines that cost more than your car or hacked-together machines built by hobbyists from assorted ...

[Ziggurat29] had been playing around with infrared protocols, and realized he had a spare point-of-sale printer kicking around in his junk box. So he decided to whip up his own calculator infrared ...

A creative DIY process showing how plastic waste bottles are turned into usable 3D printing filament. A sustainable recycling ...

For decades 3D printing has been available in some form, but it wasn’t until the likes of MakerBot and other startups who began producing affordable hardware for the hobby to really take off. In the ...

Over the last couple of years we have featured many different types of 3D printers ranging in price from a tens of thousands of pounds to just a few. However more recently we have seen the prices drop ...

Don't believe me? A quick search will bring up garage blacksmithing setups and basement robotics workshops, but those are small-time. The DIY/maker movement is most impressive not when it rivals ...