I recently picked up 3D printing as a hobby. It almost feels unreal to be able to print pretty much any object I want to. From a door hinge for fixing a broken closet to shelves for my kitchen cabinet ...

In contrast to the success of their molten-plastic cousins, paste extrusion 3D printers have never really attained much popularity. This is shame because, as the [Hand and Machine] research group at ...

The problem: folk are finding wear and gouging under the driven hobbed gear of a certain type of dual-drive extruder. In the photo right of a partially assembled dual-drive, it would be in the red ...

Good 3D printers now have multiple hot ends. You ought to be able to print in different colors or print support material. However, a lot of us don’t have multiple hot ends. Turns out, you don’t have ...

There are many factors that determine how well a 3D printer prints. While many of them involve tuning and tweaking the actual 3D printer itself, the filament you print with may be one of the most ...