It’s official: Creality has released their filament recycling system, the Filament Maker M1 and Shredder R1. This release is not unexpected; Creality has been hinting about it for a while now. However ...

We’ve seen a lot of homebrew filament extruders, but [Stefan] at CNC Kitchen shows off a commercial desktop filament extruder in his latest video, which you can see below. The 3DEVO extruder is pretty ...

Creality Filament Maker M1 and Shredder R1 turn plastic scraps into new filament reels; recycled filament can cost just $5 ...

Hugh Lyman, an 83-year-old retiree from Enumclaw, Washington, won The Desktop Factory Competition with his design for a low-cost, open-source machine capable of turning resin pellets into inexpensive ...

One of the issues with 3D printing is the amount of waste that is generated when creating prototypes, mockups and testing your designs. One way to combat this is to break up your unwanted prints and ...

If you’ve used a desktop 3D printer in the past, you’re almost certainly done battle with “strings”. These are the wispy bits of filament that harden in the air, usually as the printer’s nozzle moves ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

However, industrial 3D printing machines differ greatly from traditional desktop printers. Besides the format of the machines and the prints, one major difference can be found in the material that is ...

If you've just started 3D printing as a hobby, you're probably comparing the various filament types, but does the brand matter too? Here's what you should know.

A patent proposal by Thermwood could solve one of large area extrusion’s oldest challenges: keeping bead size consistent when a pellet fed printhead speeds up, slows down, and corners.