Despite being a readily-available source of useful plastic, massive numbers of disposable bottles go to waste every day. To ...

Because 3D printers print in layers, the smaller each layer is the finer the detail. Resin printers, which cure liquid material in layers rather than stacking layers of melted plastic, are much ...

Vidette Makes, a local makerspace, worked with Valparaiso University students to create a machine that recycles plastic waste from 3D printers. Adam Johnson, the president of Vidette Makes, is ...

We kicked off a project turning waste plastic bottles into filament using a PET machine. The video showcases our initial ...

The brilliance of using a CPAP machine for this hack is two-fold. For one, the machine uses a powerful centrifugal fan rather than the wimpy axial “muffin” fans we usually see on 3D printers.

"Using 3D printing, you can make a perfect mold of that patient's prostate, then you can put it in here and use it to section the prostate very accurately," Ross Venook, Ph.D. said.

Plastic 3D Printing vs. Injection Molding Plastic injection molding using dedicated tools and dies has been around since 1872, although it took until after World War II for it to really take off.

Polylactic acid (a type of plastic) is one of the most commonly printed 3D materials, because it’s cheap and has a fairly low melting point of around 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit).