Diffraction gratings are beautiful things, bending transmitted and reflected light and splitting it into its component wavelengths to create attractive iridescent rainbow patterns. It’s the same ...

Have you ever spent hours perfecting a 3D-printed design, only to struggle with attaching screws or bolts securely? It’s a frustrating experience that many makers and engineers face. Threads are ...

Welcome back to The Fab Lab. In the video above we're going to do another practical 3D printing project. This time what we're going to look at building end caps for containers. Today we're going to ...

Parisian designer Lucas Zito has gone from utilising 3D printing as a prototyping method to a core function of his ...

Adding textures is a great way to experiment with giving 3D prints a different look, and [PandaN] shows off a method of adding a wood grain effect in a way that’s easy to play around with. It involves ...

Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. The 3D printing industry is valued at more than $17 billion ...

FDM stands for Fused Deposition Modeling, and it refers to the most popular and common form of 3D printing where material is ...

3D printing has been used in architectural practice since the 1990s, and while its use for producing design models continues to be adopted, the aesthetics and stylistic potential of its output remain ...

3D printing service Sculpteo today announced a new iPhone app that you can use to design 3D objects, upload your designs to the cloud, and receive a ceramic object in the mail a few days later. The ...