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Okuma is known for being a manufacturer of CNC machines, but the company is now branching out into additive manufacturing – or rather hybrid manufacturing. Hybrid manufacturing combines one or…

Diabase Engineering offered 3D printer owners a brand new option in 2016 when it introduced the Flexion Extruder, an add-on extruder that promised to give any 3D printer industrial 3D…

Already, CES 2018 is only a little over a month away. It’s getting so close, in fact, that the CES Innovation Award recipients are being named. The Innovation Awards honor…

Whenever NASA comes up, it’s a pretty good bet that something exciting is happening. The space agency has been doing some amazing work with 3D printing, including building an entirely…

Italian 3D printing group Roboze recently capped off its move into the US market with a strong showing of both its Roboze One and Roboze One +400 3D printers at…

Additive Engineering Solutions (AES) may be a small company, but it has one of the biggest 3D printers in the world. When 3DPrint.com Editor-in-Chief Sarah Goerhke and I walked into…

3D printers just keep getting bigger and bigger, as well as more multifunctional. It’s been hard to keep track of who’s selling the largest 3D printer in the world, as…

If you’re a regular or even semi-regular reader of 3DPrint.com, you know that we cover crowdfunding campaigns quite frequently – and for good reason, because some of the most successful…

Indiana-based Thermwood Corporation is known for their CNC routers – in fact, they’re the oldest CNC machine manufacturing company in business, having developed the first commercial CNC tool control back in…

The appeals of Kickstarter campaigns are many. There are the rewards for backers, frequently taking the form of either deep discounts on the final product or unusual items that can’t…

Most 3D printers are made for a particular function. There are printers for metal, printers for plastic, food printers, bioprinters, but for the most part, they’re each limited to one…

I really don’t know if I could find a dryer subject to write about than industrial springs. At least a subject that sounded dryer, because when I actually started to…

Artist, architecture student and robot builder Clayton Muhleman teamed up with his fellow Instructable user Alan Cation to create a cool mobile 3D printer that can 3D print large-scale objects…

These days, if you are plugging a new 3D printer, it better be a great looking piece of hardware; after all, who wants to plunk out their dollars for an ugly…

When Instructables user Othermachine uploaded their tutorial for building a binary digital watch called the Nerd Watch it became a bit of a sensation among, well, nerds. It mixed in several…

One of the most iconic moments from 2007’s The Simpsons Movie had the titular family’s home in danger of being destroyed with a wrecking ball until Homer selflessly jumps on…

Even though 3D printing is just coming of age, computer controlled manufacturing equipment has been in use for ages. In particular, computer numerical control (CNC) milling machines, are used by…

When it comes to 3D printers, they can be used to make all sorts of objects, via additive manufacturing. However, many ‘makers’ (people who utilize their creative abilities to ‘make’…

The 3D printing community is filled with DIY’ers (Do It Yourself’ers), who are fascinated with building 3D printers basically from scratch. The RepRap movement is one that has really caught…