3D printers are at a bit of a crossroads – after a lot of initial promise, they seem to have hit a roadblock between early adopter zeal and general consumer interest. A new entrant called Flux should ...

A Taiwanese team has developed the Flux 3D, a cheap all-in-one 3D printer, scanner and laser engraver that, thanks to its modularity, also leaves room for further expansion. The device also allows ...

The Best Black Friday Deals on 3D Printers, Inkjet/Laser Printers, and Scanners Are Still Going No matter what your printing and scanning needs might be, we've rounded up the best Black Friday ...

Start-up XYZPrinting today released its first all-in-one 3D printer, which uses a 3D laser scanner to replicate objects placed inside the machine. While other 3D printing companies sell handheld ...

We know it’s hard to hear it, but the days of you being a hotshot at the local Hackerspace because you’ve got a 3D printer at home are long gone. While they’re still one of the most persnickety pieces ...

If there’s one thing to be learned from the internet, it’s that cats and 3D printers never get old. Almost every crowd funded 3D-printer campaign has ended in “great success,” and Peachy Printer is no ...

Weeks after 3D printing startup Makerbot announced that it would be selling a 3D scanner, a Canadian startup called Matterform has upped the ante: a C$450 ($443) “Photon 3D Scanner.” Since it was ...

Leica Geosystems’ (St. Gallen, Switzerland) Leica RTC360 3D laser scanner, distributed by comprehensive metrology service provider Exact Metrology (Brookfield, Wis., U.S.), is a portable coordinate ...

3D printing might be awesome, but so far it's mostly been the realm of design geeks and passionate tinkerers. The Zeus from AIO Robotics seeks to merge 3D scanning and printing with the push-button ...

A new open source 3D printer called the Ares has launched this week over on the Indiegogo crowdfunding website with the aim of raising $8000 to make the jump into production. In the first five days ...

The average FDM 3D printer is not so different from your garden variety laser cutter. They’re often both Cartesian-coordinate based machines, but with different numbers of axes and mounting different ...

After spending a week with the new da Vinci 1.0 AiO all-in-one 3D printer, I’ve decided that first impressions can be deceiving. This printer, a first in the consumer-grade 3D printing industry, can ...