With 3D printers dropping below the US$200 mark, the home 3D printing revolution appears to be getting into full swing, which is great ... if you want to make things out of plastic. Unfortunately ...

Open-source 3D printing has grown steadily, offering dependable solutions for both beginners and experienced makers. By sharing ideas and designs freely, communities around these printers have ...

Unsurprisingly, open source is right there with the commercial manufacturers. The open source 3D printing project is called RepRap. The names comes from “self-replicating, rapid-prototyping” as many ...

For software giant Autodesk, it is trying to simplify 3D printing with its open source Spark platform and Ember 3D printer for a market that continues to expand.

The new open-source 3D metal printer cost less than $1200 to make. Anyone with access to a welder and the Internet soon could make his or her own replacement parts or tools with a new 3D metal ...

3D printing is not yet a mainstream business activity, but the technology has progressed to the point where users can print three-dimensional objects and manufacture their own prototypes and ...

Don't want to buy toys? Why not make your own? Check out our video of the MakerBot Replicator 3D printer.

You may have heard of 3D printers—they’ve been all over the news. But you may not know that they represent real opportunity for small business owners. While 3D printers have been around since the ...

Red Hat is the world’s largest open source company. Run as a for profit company, it manages to give every line of code away and still rake in a cozy 1.5 to 2 billion US dollars a year. So, qu… ...

One exciting thing about 3D-printed prostheses is that the designs are all freely available open source and constantly evolving.