The main mechanical tools in a hacker’s shop used to be a drill press and a lathe. Maybe a CNC mill, if you were lucky. Laser cutters are still a rare tool to find in a personal shop, but today’s ...

Shopping for a new printer can be surprisingly confusing. Along with navigating all the different brands, you’ll also need to figure out if an inkjet or laser printer is best for your needs. Both of ...

Designing the right scan path, and laser intensity along that path, is key to turning out quality metal parts using laser powder-bed fusion. The most popular 3D printing process for making metal parts ...

Laser printers use toner, which is a fine powder that gets melted onto the paper to create a permanent image. Toner-based printers, which also include xerographic copiers, typically print very quickly ...

So a local "maker space" has two introductory workshops. One for laser cutting/engraving, the other on 3D printing. Ideally I'd visit both, since I'm clueless in both techniques and I haven't designed ...

If you need high-quality printing in a snap, a laser printer can produce clean, sharp prints in as little as a few seconds. But, after three weeks of testing each device, not all laser printers have ...