More affordable than ever, 3D printers are booming for personal, professional, and educational use. We've been testing them for over a decade and are here to help you find the right option.

Buying a 3D printer is exciting, but you'll need projects and models to make it all work. These free sites offer a huge range ...

Watching a 3D printer in action involves a few distinct steps: Design Preparation: This is where the digital 3D model is ...

For a couple of years now, I’ve been trying to find an excuse to buy a decent 3D printer. Friends and fellow Ars staffers who had them would gush about them at every opportunity, talking about how ...

For the last three months or so, I’ve been learning to use (and love) a Bambu Labs A1 3D printer, a big, loud machine that sits on my desk and turns pictures on my computer screen into real-world ...

Keep these projects inside of Pandora's box.

The Core One is an excellent alternative to the Bambu Lab machines, and, because it's made by Prusa, it has security-first features and an upgrade path that just doesn't exist for other manufacturers.

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...