If you want to make serious assemblies out of 3D printed parts ... generate data for comparison. We like the threaded insert method where a brass insert is pushed into the plastic while hot.

For the uninitiated, 3D printers typically work by melting plastic filaments or other base ... toxic than the ABS particles on a per-particle comparison, but because the printers emitted so ...

In comparison ... from 3D-printed hip and knee replacements to GE's 3D-printed jet engine and power drill parts. “We are bringing plastic-based 3D printing to scale,” Carbon's DeSimone ...

you’ll need to start with a hefty supply of plastic filament—the “ink” used by 3D printers. Or you could get a ProtoCycler and make your own. In 2013, Dennon Oosterman and his former ...

The 1.75 mm filament works with standard 3D printers and is compatible with automated material systems used in some newer ...

Where extrusion-type 3D printers squeeze heated plastic through a tiny nozzle to build models up layer by layer, stereolithographic printers involve a precisely aimed laser that polymerizes ...

We’ve seen all sorts of 3D-printers on these pages before. From the small to the large, Cartesians and deltas, and printers that can squeeze out plastic, metal, and even concrete. But this ...

While other at-home 3D printers use a process where ABS plastic is melted and extruded ... do this in your home for less than US$3,000. For comparison, the Makerbot Replicator 2 prints parts ...