We’ve seen a lot of homebrew filament extruders, but [Stefan] at CNC Kitchen shows off a commercial desktop filament extruder in his latest video, which you can see below. The 3DEVO extruder is pretty ...

Recycling plastic into filament normally involves chopping it into tiny pieces and pushing it through a screw extruder. [JRT3D] is taking a different approach with PetBot, which cuts PET bottles into ...

As everyone who owns a 3D printer knows, filament is expensive. A number of solutions have been created to get around this problem, but recently 83-year-old Hugh Lyman may have solved the problem for ...

Hugh Lyman, an 83-year-old retiree from Enumclaw, Washington, won The Desktop Factory Competition with his design for a low-cost, open-source machine capable of turning resin pellets into inexpensive ...

Researchers have developed an improved version of a desktop extruder that produces filament for 3D printers, and they’ve made assembly instructions available online for free. Students at the Michigan ...

Last week, we took a first look at the dual-filament Ultimaker 3 printer. This week, we dive into one of the key features that provides the printer with its power and flexibility: its extruders.

For all its transformative potential, the high costs of 3-D printing continue keeping it from achieving mass consumer adoption. Now a new open source device may change that with its ability to create ...

A Massachusetts teen's desktop machine turns 3D printing waste into new filament at 90 percent less cost than commercial ...

3D Platform (3DP), a global leader in manufacturing large-format, industrial-strength 3D machines, has produced a High Flow Air Cooled (HFA) extruder that is the first in a new line of ...

However, industrial 3D printing machines differ greatly from traditional desktop printers. Besides the format of the machines and the prints, one major difference can be found in the material that is ...

Dutch filament maker manufacturer 3devo has released an upgraded purging material for its machines called the DevoClean Midtemp EZ. 3devo’s new compound allows users to more effectively clean their ...

Angel investors understand the high stakes of funding new technologies. The journey is fraught with financial, technical and market risks—but when a groundbreaking well-designed innovation meets the ...