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3D printing for consumers at CES 2026 — Creality, Snapmaker, AtomForm and Protopasta show their latest systems

The SPARKX i7 earned Tom’s Hardware’s Best 3D Printer award as Creality, Snapmaker, AtomForm, and Protopasta showed how home ...
New Atlas

Crafty 3D printer multitasks as a laser engraver, cutter, and plotter

Bambu Lab's latest flagship 3D printer does a whole lot more than 3D printing for serious makers, and promises to be good at every one of its tasks. The H2D desktop printer can print using two ...
Hackaday

Creating A Laser Cutter From A 3D Printer

The average FDM 3D printer is not so different from your garden variety laser cutter. They’re often both Cartesian-coordinate based machines, but with different numbers of axes and mounting different ...
Machine Design

How Do Diode Lasers Work?

The basis of a solid-state diode laser is, of course, the diode. Laser diodes can have different emission wavelength—most of them have between 405 nm to 808 nm. The diodes usually have TO3, TO5, TO9, ...