Discover an inspiring DIY project that turns discarded plastic bottles into 3D printer filament and miniature soda bottles. Watch each step, from collecting plastic waste in a snowy park to building a ...

Here’s another project with the worthy ultimate aim of repurposing household plastic waste as useful 3D filament for making new stuff with your home 3D printer. Both the Strooder and the Filabot are ...

When high tech gunsmith group Defense Distributed test-fired the world's first fully 3D-printed firearm earlier this month, some critics dismissed the demonstration as expensive and impractical, ...

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If you’ve ever tried to cut a piece of acrylic with a tool designed to cut wood or metal, you know that the plastic doesn’t cut in the same way that either of the other materials would. It melts at ...

3-D printing technology is being harnessed to take pesky plastic waste to make human waste disappear via composting toilets. "You can use the soil that comes out of that for gardening - not crops that ...

Although the things that can be done with 3D printers are certainly amazing, many 3D-printed plastic items still have a certain "look" to them. This is largely due to the fact that each item is all ...

A new additive manufacturing system and process developed by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology IWU produces plastic components eight times faster than ...

With 3D printers dropping below the US$200 mark, the home 3D printing revolution appears to be getting into full swing, which is great ... if you want to make things out of plastic. Unfortunately, the ...

Forgotten your toothbrush? Never mind, just print out a new one. What may seem like science fiction is scientific fact and these 3D printers are just a couple of years from being affordable home ...