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Ukrainian national who completed Air Force officer training convicted in ghost gun 3D printing operation

Yaroslav Vishnevski convicted on five federal counts after authorities found ghost gun 3D printing operation and illegal silencers from China.…

I stopped buying cheap plastic parts after my 3D printer proved it could solve every household problem

Cheap plastic parts stopped making sense once my 3D printer started replacing them with better household fixes.…

I've been 3D printing for 3 years, and PETG is the only filament I print functional parts in now

PLA made 3D printing easy for me, but PETG is what made my printed parts useful.…

The best 3D printer prints are the boring ones that fix problems you've learned to ignore

Flashy 3D prints get the attention, but the boring ones make the printer worth owning, those cable guides, brackets, organizers, and repair parts.…

My 3D printer pays for itself fixing broken household parts, not printing toys

The toys are fun, but the real magic of a 3D printer starts when something breaks, and you don’t have to buy the whole thing again.…

Testing Various Ways to Waterproof FDM Printed Parts

Along with layer lines, FDM printers are notorious for being neither air- nor water-tight due to the countless very small gaps between the layers. This is very unfortunate if you a…

7 everyday items I no longer have to buy thanks to 3D printing

I started 3D printing for making fidgets and toys, but the hobby has shown lots of practical uses, too…

I wasted half a spool of filament before I touched the one slicer setting that fixed everything

I blamed speed, temperature, supports, and filament before I finally checked the flow rate calibration.…

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A Fume-Control Cabinet for Resin 3D Printing

For a certain kind of intricate, highly-detailed manufacturing, there’s really no substitute for a resin 3D printer, and it’s therefore unfortunate that they require so many poison…

Bambu Lab teases new A2L 3D printer — June 1 launch confirmed

Without much to go on, fans speculate what the newest Bambu Lab 3D printer could be.…

[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026

The LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 28, 2026 is available.…

Claude Code organized my 3D printing chaos, but it taught me something more important about automation

Claude Code cleaned up my messy 3D printing workflow, but the bigger lesson was knowing where to stop automating.…

Print with dozens of colors: Our new open-source ColorMix for PrusaSlicer

For the past few months, the 3D printing community has been poking at a very interesting question: what if a multi-material printer were not limited to the colors physically loaded…

3D printing enthusiast smashes 59-second 3DBenchy for new speed world record —Minuteman 3D printer with revamped bed motion system breaches minute mark

Printer used was the 20th public iteration of the Minuteman design by nozzle-head Yan Roetz.…

Wells Fargo to offer mortgage incentives on 3D printed homes with Icon

Wells Fargo will provide a 50 basis point lender credit to buyers of Icon homes using its mortgages.…

3D Printing Space Cadet Pinball Into the Real World

Unless you’ve managed to avoid touching a Windows computer until after the Windows XP era, it’s pretty good odds you’ve played Space Cadet Pinball. Some of you may have even paid ……

Save up to $350 on the best 3D printers in the Memorial Day sale — massive price cuts on Bambu Lab, Elegoo, Creality, and Anycubic 3D printers including the 'exceptionally good' Centauri Carbon 2 and our top budget pick for beginners

I've picked out the best Memorial Day 3D printer deals for beginners, hobbyists, and small business owners.…

Save $170 on this lightning-fast, premium 3D printer combo featuring CoreXZ kinematics — Creality's Ender-3 V3 is on sale for just $419 right now with a multicolor upgrade kit

Solve the Ender-3 V3's biggest weakness with this combo deal.…

New video of melted Bambu Lab A1 sparks debate about whether the A1 3D printer is still a fire hazard — critics push for recall while redditors suspect external factors

Viral footage shows a scorched mess, should the A1 be recalled?…

Designing a Printable Cyclone Dust Separator for 99.95% Efficiency

Filtering sawdust out of an airflow is easy until you try to do it with cyclone separation, but the obvious appeal here is of course not spending a fortune on filters. Over the yea…

'Fuck you, Bambu': How one private message could change the face of 3D printing

Thousands are daring Bambu to take legal action.…

Putting Version 7.1 of the Direct Granules FDM Extruder Through Its Paces

Whether you’re using granules or filament, FDM printing relies heavily on a consistent flowrate of the extruder. This is also the challenge with [HomoFaciens]’s direct granule extr…

My side project: free 3D printing tools + a community printer/filament DB.

My first week with a 3D printer taught me that defaults destroy prints, not build them

Default settings feel safe, but my first week with a 3D printer proved they can quietly wreck prints.…

Faster 3D prints came out cleaner, and I finally understand why default speed is just a safety net

Faster 3D printing can actually improve results when the printer, slicer, and filament are already dialed in.…

Water-cooling a 3D Printed Rocket Isn’t Quite Practical

Consumer-grade 3D printers are useful for lots of things, but they kind of fall down when it comes to making stuff that survives high temperatures. [Mr. More Gooder] wasn’t deterre…

Elegoo’s Centauri Carbon 2 Combo 3D printer gets a $50 discount — brings beginner friendly 3D printing at $399

One of the best budget 3D printers from Elegoo.…

Filament Manager is the boring AMS upgrade that actually matters

Bambu Studio’s Filament Manager isn’t flashy, but it finally gives AMS owners the material-tracking workflow they have needed for years.…

I switched back to OrcaSlicer for my Bambu printer, and the cloud integration changes everything

OrcaSlicer already gave Bambu users more control than Bambu Studio. Now that the cloud workflow is smoother, switching back makes far more sense.…

Save up to $300 on a new 3D printer right now, thanks to these Memorial Day discounts — filament and resin 3DP deals from Bambu Lab, Elegoo, Creality, and more are perfect for beginners and pros

Get started on a new hobby over this Memorial Day weekend…

Open-source non-profit claims Bambu Lab violated license — move follows cease-and-desist demand on OrcaSlicer fork that restored cloud printing features without using Bambu Connect

The Software Freedom Conservancy is looking into the situation.…

Investigating the Health Impacts of UFPs and VOCs from FDM Printers

FDM 3D printing is fairly messy on a molecular scale, with the filament being heated up to temperatures high enough to melt it, which produces ultra-fine particles (UFPs) and volat…

Could 3D printing lead to 0% waste in manufacturing products?

A DIY 3D Printing Filament Dryer

In a recent video [Saša Karanović] revisits the DIY filament dryer that he gave a shot a couple of years ago. Back then he reused an existing filament dryer, adding a custom contro…

Using 3D Printers To Make Circuit Boards

Custom printed circuit boards have become more and more accessible to the average hobbyist over the last decade. But one problem still remains: your circuits will take at least a c…

How Consumer Goods Companies Use 3D Printing to Cut Time-to-Market

How Consumer Goods Companies Use 3D Printing to Cut Time-to-Market In competitive consumer...…

Multi-Color 3D Printing Without Material Waste: Is Low-Cost Finally Realistic?

Three Things to Know Up Front Purge waste during color transitions has historically been...…

What Nanochon's Series A Tells Us About the Bio 3D Printing Commercialization Threshold

Nanochon raised a Series A for cartilage implants. What does that funding signal mean for the broader bio 3D printing commercialization curv…

Braids, Hacktastic, and Rock Climbing

Welcome to this week’s Math Munch! First up, a little about one of my favorite things to do (and part of what got me into math in the first place!): hair braiding. If you’ve ever d…

How wasted infrared light could boost solar panels, night vision and 3D printing

The Ploopy Bean Pointing Stick is a portable trackpoint nipple mouse

Ploopy's 3D-printed "Bean Pointing Stick" functions as a compact four-button mouse and Thinkpad-style trackpoint. It even adopts the classic IBM color scheme and nipple texture. Th…

I Wrote an MCP Server for My 3D Printer

I’m writing this on a Sunday afternoon. The 3D printer on my kitchen counter has been printing for 19...…

Josef Prusa warns Chinese 3D printing software poses massive security risks — Bambu Lab allegedly violates AGPL license with an un-auditable network 'black box'

Bambu Labs continues to draw fire.…

Assembly Language – Jesse Colin Jackson's Marching Cubes

The latest iteration of a decade-long investigation into modular construction systems by Canadian Artist Jesse Jackson, Marching Cubes is an algorithm-inspired syntax for building …

I spent weeks fighting my Bambu's AMS, and now I understand why it's worth the frustration

It can be frustrating, sure, but its convenience makes it hard to give up once it becomes part of your 3D printing workflow.…

Modder uses Nintendo Switch to boost aging 3D printer's speed by 90%, dropping 3DBenchy print time from 90 minutes to a mere 8 minutes and 41 seconds — enthusiast claims big quality improvements by using jailbroken quad-core console

If you have an older printer like the Prusa MK3S here, this kind of tinkering can have dramatic results.…

Y-Zipper: 3D Printing Flexible-Rigid Transitions in One Click [video]

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.…

Can you 3D Print a Pinball Machine That’s Fun to Play?

It seems fair to say that pinball machines are among the most universally loved gaming systems known today, yet the full-sized ones are both very expensive and very large, while ev…

'Battery-free, quiet, and inherently private' — These 3D-printed metal tags could change home and office tracking, turning penny-sized discs into smart devices using ultrasonic tech for maintenance-free monitoring without charging

“Battery-free, quiet, and inherently private” — These 3D-printed metal tags could be the future of home and office tracking as the tiny penny-sized discs turn ordinary objects into…

New Slicer Enables Horizontal Overhangs Without Support

There’s a rule of thumb when it comes to FDM printing that overhangs are really only possible to an angle of around 45 degrees or so. If you try to squirt out plastic with nothing …

The second nozzle in the Bambu Lab X2D solves what single-nozzle 3D printers just accept as normal

Used thoughtfully, it makes specialty filament feel less like a stunt and more like another tool in the drawer.…

Bambu Lab H2C review: the Cadillac of 3D printers

Bambu Lab's H2C 3D printer is a powerhouse built for professionals, easy enough for beginners to use, and comes with a price tag to match.…