When you’re getting ready to purchase something as expensive as a 3D printer, you definitely want to make sure you know what you’re getting into. While 3D printers certainly aren’t considered cheap, ...

The short answer: something like $200, if your time is worth $0/hour. How is this possible? Cheap kit printers, with laser-cut acrylic frames, but otherwise reasonably solid components. In particular, ...

I've been in the 3D printing hobby for a long time. Back then, you had a choice between industrial machines that cost more than your car or hacked-together machines built by hobbyists from assorted ...

When I unboxed XYZPrinting’s Nobel 1.0 stereolithographic (SLA) 3D printer, I’d just finished shipping off another top-rated and remarkably accurate SLA machine, the Formlabs Form 1+. XYZprinting is ...

While 3D printing can often be an expensive hobby, it doesn't have to be. There are many fantastic printers available for under $500, so we wanted to focus on those for this article. You could be just ...

The idea of a 3D printer in every home has largely died. Nowadays, it’s much easier to send off a design to a 3D printing service, who can produce it for you with a far better printer than any smaller ...

Making a very simple prosthetic arm can cost $1,000 for the materials alone. But 3D scanning and printing can shrink the cost to as little as $4. In Guatemala, where some families might earn $50 in a ...

About a decade ago, the only way the average hacker was getting their hands on a desktop 3D printer was by building it themselves from a kit. Even then, to keep costs down, many of these kits were ...