YouTubers are great at driving interest in 3D printers, especially with fancy time-lapses and early hardware reviews. Some of these polished tutorials tend to hide a trend of viral hacks created for ...

The early 3D printers of the 80s and 90s started off as cartesian bots, and this is what the RepRap project took a cue from for the earliest open source 3D printer designs. A bit later, the delta bot ...

It’s safe to say we’ve hit a bit of a plateau with hobby based 3D printers using FDM technology. Print quality is pretty high, they’re about as fast as they’re going to get, and compared to commercial ...