The beginning of the DIY 3D printing movement was a heady time. There was a vision of a post-scarcity world in which everything could and would be made at home, for free. Printers printing other ...

Quentin Harley describes himself as a self-taught hacker from Centurion, just north of Johannesburg in South Africa. He's a softly-spoken engineer for Siemens and a member of a local makers collective ...

RepRap, the self-replicating universal constructor has had our attention since it first started spitting out globs of shapeless goo, but its speculative potential turned in a real benchmark recently ...

Praise Prusa.

CAMDEN, Maine -- What if instead of incurring the wrath of the authorities by torrenting movies and CDs, you could visit some shady web server that lets you download, say, a camera or a car? This -- ...

GOSHEN, Ind. (WNDU) - 3D Printer operators and enthusiasts delight as the Midwest RepRap Festival, or MRRF, returns to Goshen. 3D printing companies, state-of-the-art RepRap 3D printers, and the 3D ...

3D printing machines such as the 'RepRap' already allow people to design and 'print out' products at home. Could this be the beginning of the end for traditional, capitalist manufacturing? Little ...

Budding hobbyists almost have it too easy these days, what with all the ready-made components, Mindstorms and Arduino boards, but there's still a couple of folks out there kicking it old-school... and ...

RepRap is an open source hardware project that aims to create a self-replicating machine or a 'universal constructor' by using rapid prototyping. That means the machine can manufacture objects ...