Best PLA for everyday 3D printing 2024

Quick menu PLA, or Polylactic Acid, is a biopolymer used in FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) 3D Printing amongst other things, and the reason it is used so often is for two main reasons. One is that it is quite inexpensive for the base resin, and two is that it is incredibly easy to print with […]

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Apple Experimenting With 3D Printing to Create Device Components

Apple is using 3D printers to make some of the components for upcoming Apple Watches, according to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman. The new manufacturing process that Apple is testing would use less material than the large slabs of metal that are needed for traditional CNC manufacturing, plus it would cut down on the time that it […]

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Best PLA for everyday 3D printing

PLA, or Polylactic Acid, is a biopolymer used in FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) 3D Printing amongst other things, and the reason it is used so often is for two main reasons. One is that it is quite inexpensive for the base resin, and two is that it is incredibly easy to print with compared to […]

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15 must-have 3D printing accessories for use with resin printers

Resin printers are becoming cheaper and more accessible. The best 3D printers like the Anycubic Photon and the Elegoo Mars are driving the cost of resin printing down like never before. However, resin printing is a lot more complicated than FDM printing, so there are a lot of different accessories you might need. Some of […]

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Can a Particle Accelerator Trace the Origins of Printing?

Other Asian innovations, like paper and gunpowder, have a clear record of dissemination to Europe, with artifacts and record-keeping that trace their travel westward along routes of trade and conquest. Printing doesn’t have that kind of paper trail, says Valerie Hansen, a professor of Chinese history at Yale University. There is no evidence that European […]

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Samsung flexes its 200MP HP1 sensor by printing a cat billboard

Samsung unveiled its 200MP ISCOCELL HP1 camera sensor back in September of last year but we still have not seen a device to feature the massive sensor. That might change come July with an upcoming Motorola phone and Samsung posted a video detailing the sensor’s capabilities. [embedded content] The goal of the video is to […]

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