As additive manufacturing produces increasingly intricate and delicate items, traditional packaging solutions often fall ...

Tips and tricks about 3D printing optomechanical parts. Many components can be printed which helps reduce cost, leaving your money to buy lenses and mirrors instead. But some things are hard to ...

Researchers 3D printed a mini quadrupole mass filter, a key component of a mass spectrometer, that performs as well as some commercial-grade devices. It can be fabricated in hours for a few ...

Using off-the-shelf electronic components, a Raspberry Pi, and a 3D printer, it's possible to build your own working miniature classic Mac. Here's how.

A big benefit of using 3D printing is that you can custom-design every component, Dinkelaker notes. “Sometimes you have just a small weirdly-shaped component or a weirdly shaped space.

Scientists combine materials science invention with newly developed 3D printing technology. Components made of highly transparent glass can be manufactured in just a few minutes and with great ...

Conventional 3D printers print their objects layer by layer. However, in the new process, called Computed Axial Lithography (CAL), the component is created in a single step.

The fully formed object materializes in mere seconds, far quicker than traditional layer-by-layer 3D printing. The vat is emptied to get the part.