James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Disney Research has patented its design for “a nearly instantaneous” 3D printer that uses light to cure resin selectively to produce an entire model out of a stereolithography (STL) file all at once.

3D printing has changed a lot over the years, and the innovations just keep coming. Here are some exciting gadgets and upgrades to watch for in 2026.

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Over the years 3D printing has continued to engage and interest people for industrial uses as well as consumers. The consumer models started somewhat expensive, and way out of the ballpark of most ...

Meshy integrates its Image-to-3D tool into Bambu Lab's MakerWorld MakerLab, while also launching Multi-Color Printing on meshy.ai - together delivering the most seamless AI-to-print workflow on the ...

Full-color 3D printing is something of a holy grail, if nothing else just because of how much it impresses the normies. We’ve seen a lot of multi-material units the past few years, and with ...

Valentine Ananikov, a chemist at the Zelinsky Institute of Organic Chemistry in Moscow, runs chemical reactions so delicate that just a trace of metal nanoparticles, smaller than a bacterium, could ...

Medical 3D printing refers to the fabrication of anatomical structures, typically derived from volumetric medical image data, and enables visual inspection and direct manipulation of hand-held models ...