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Fontys University Students Experiment with Filament Extrusion and 3D Printing
One of the most promising aspects of 3D printing is the fact that additive manufacturing adds material and only uses what is necessary through building structures up (albeit with any…
3D Printing on Kickstarter: A Fast Filament Extruder for Less than $1,000 and 3D Printed Houses to Match Your Own
With deep roots in maker culture, 3D printing endeavors often find themselves turning to crowdfunding, and Kickstarter has been a mainstay in funding new companies, technologies, and projects. We often…
3D Platform Debuts Fastest Spool-Fed 3D Printer Extruder, Made Possible with 6mm Filament by MakeShaper
At RAPID, I saw a number of solutions for making larger FDM prints. As we previously reported, Titan Robotics exhibited two products, a new pellet extruder and their Cronus multi-gantry 3D…
3devo Completes PEEK Material Trials with NEXT 1.0 Advanced Level Desktop Filament Extruder
Netherlands-based 3devo, a subsidiary of Devoteq, may have only been officially around for about a year, but the company is stirring things up in a good way. Its goal is to find…
3devo at formnext: Desktop Materials Extrusion Opens Up the 3D Printing Market
While 3D printing at the desktop may not have yet reached the sales that had been projected some years ago during the early maker craze, desktop 3D printing activity has…
3D Printing: The Stories We Missed This Week — September 3, 2016
From major business acquisitions to exploding rockets, it’s been quite a wild and bumpy ride into the weekend. Here’s a look back at some of the news that we didn’t manage…
OmniDynamics Seeks Funding for Strooder Desktop Filament Maker
One of the most amazing things about 3D printing is that it is a disruptive technology. It is an alternative to mass manufacturing, allowing designers, inventors and makers the opportunity…
Introducing the New and Improved Bondtech QR Extruder
There are many factors that go into customer satisfaction with a particular company. One is, obviously, the quality of the product. The willingness of the company to listen to customer…
CollideOScope Multi-Filament 3D Print Head Now on Kickstarter
As anyone who 3D prints knows, one of the limiting features is the ability to involve multiple filaments in a print job when its demanded. But, when this is possible,…
Jaws –- The 3D Printer Extruder Drive Bolt with Bite
No, there’s no ominous John Williams score to accompany this article, just smooth and consistent extrusion of 3D print filament. Matthew Fiedler and the Houston-based team at re:3D have developed…
Introducing Felfil: An Italian Open Source 3D Printing Filament Extruder
It’s an open source project designed for home use, and Felfil is an extruder for plastic 3D printing filament, designed by a team of young makers from the Politecnico of…
Make Your Own 3D Printer Filament with Pastor Glenn’s Filament Extruder
3D printing could never be called an inexpensive hobby unless your last name starts with a “Rocke” and ends in a “feller.” While 3D printers themselves are rapidly dropping in…
Tinkers Store Offers Ground, Recycled Computer Parts at $4.99/lb for Making 3D Printing Filament
The world of progress, technology, and being as green as possible are all becoming much more entwined these days. Although it’s not always easy to see—or facilitate–from a provincial standpoint,…
3D Printed Decor Makes This the First Fully 3D Printed Home…for Fish
I often romanticize 3D printing and our industry’s hope that we can completely customize our lives with it. To some extent, 3D printing can give us incredibly customized lives, even…
Make Your Own 3D Printer Filament by Building Your Own Filament Extruder
Costs have certainly dropped over the years, but 3D printing could never be accused of being an inexpensive hobby. While the average price of a 3D printer is around one…
OmniDynamics’s Strooder Unveils New Details Including Method for Full-Color Filament Extrusion
Full-color 3D printing is something that has been being talked about for quite some time now, when it comes to desktop FFF-based printers. While there are a few 3D printers…
RichRap Unveils The Open Source, 3D Printed Universal Pellet Extruder
If you are like me, you can’t help but see dollar signs every time you run your 3D printer. “How much filament is this using?” “What if the printer screws…
ExtrusionBot Launches Their EB2 3D Printer Filament Extruder Model – Extrudes at 6.5 Feet/Min
If you are like me, you probably find it quite outrageous that a simple 1 kg spool of PLA or ABS 3D printer filament can cost $30, $40, or even…