In the beginning, around 2011 or thereabouts, there was an infinite variety of designs available for anyone to build their own 3D printer. There were Mendels, some weirdos were actually trying to ...

The beginning of the DIY 3D printing movement was a heady time. There was a vision of a post-scarcity world in which everything could and would be made at home, for free. Printers printing other ...

A UK researcher who oversees a global effort to develop an open-source machine that 'prints' three-dimensional objects is celebrating after the prototype machine succeeded in making a set of its own ...

RepRap Project goal of a US$400 3d prototyping machine to build and which can fabricate objects at a cost of about US$0.02 per cubic centimeter would compete for and enable a 100,000 to 1 million unit ...

CAMDEN, Maine -- What if instead of incurring the wrath of the authorities by torrenting movies and CDs, you could visit some shady web server that lets you download, say, a camera or a car? This -- ...

A student at Virginia Commonwealth University wants to bring the reality an idea that 3D printing enthusiasts have so far only dreamed about – printing all the necessary parts for a 3D printer, with a ...

The first annual Rocky Mountain RepRap Festival (RMRRF) took place in Loveland, CO, and the ATLAS Utility Research Lab crew showed up in a big way. RepRap is a global movement focused on developing ...

RepRap is an open source hardware project that aims to create a self-replicating machine or a 'universal constructor' by using rapid prototyping. That means the machine can manufacture objects ...

GOSHEN, Ind. (WNDU) - 3D Printer operators and enthusiasts delight as the Midwest RepRap Festival, or MRRF, returns to Goshen. 3D printing companies, state-of-the-art RepRap 3D printers, and the 3D ...

Jared Brandt has created a new extra large 3D printer which he has amply named the RepRap BigBot which is based on the widely popular and supported open source RepRap Mendel platform. The 3D printer ...

This is the Grounded Experimental Delta 3D printer, aka the Simpson, a project built by computer science teacher Nicholas Seward that does away with the excess frames, pulleys, and hardware associated ...