The holy grail of desktop 3D printers – aside from manufacturing full color objects in any shape imaginable – is turning tiny plastic pellets into a plastic filament. Many projects have ...

There’s another option: corrugated plastic ... 3D printers, enclosure design is still a problem that isn’t entirely solved. “Soft” enclosure options like photo tents or fabric grow boxes ...

Now scientists at MIT have found a way to 3D print objects that can change shape almost instantaneously ... with the new technology, which uses plastic “3D ink” infused with tiny iron ...

In recent years, research interest in the 3D printing of metal patterns on plastic parts has grown exponentially, due to its high potential in the manufacturing of next-generation electronics. But ...