This week’s selection is “3D Printing Basics for Entertainment Design” by Anne E. McMills. There are plenty of books that introduce 3D printers, but relatively few provide an introduction that’s ...

Virtually all desktop FFF 3D printers are accompanied by a spool or coil of filament. Inevitably it will be PLA because it’s a material that’s relatively easy to 3D print, and is not too expensive. In ...

From smart printers to material innovations, stay ahead in 3D printing with these new gadgets that improve speed, quality, ...

Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs has secured a $200 million investment from software design giant Autodesk as part of a larger $1 billion round from backers, including AMD, Emerson Collective, Fidelity, Nvidia ...

Plenty of our childhoods had at least one math teacher who made the (ultimately erroneous) claim that we needed to learn to do math because we wouldn’t always have a calculator in our pockets. While ...

Usually, CAD software products are very expensive. However, since most of the applications of such software are by companies, they can afford it. The same isn’t true for students and self-employed ...

In this video, Joel Telling, the 3D Printing Nerd, prints a repair part for a Playmobil trainset, part of an annual holiday display. He shares his lifelong passion for collecting Playmobil toys and ...

Have you ever imagined turning your ideas into physical objects with just a few clicks? Thanks to tools like Tinkercad, what once seemed like science fiction is now an accessible reality for anyone ...

Researchers at The University of Queensland (UQ) have developed an affordable, open-source fluorometer, used for DNA measurement, that can be built using a home 3D printer. Determining DNA levels in a ...

AI is making ever more jobs obsolete. The solution from Silicon Valley? A universal paycheck, no work required. Technology titans including Elon Musk and Sam Altman see a future flush with wealth ...