Discover The Filament, the new brand from Spectrum for 3D printing enthusiasts seeking practicality, functionality, and ...

D printing is injecting much-needed innovation into sneaker design, but it’s small brands that are leading where big names ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Both chopped and continuous fibers are used in composite 3D printing for lightweight, strong parts. We took a look at how ...

Filament 3D printing, also known as Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM), is the most common type of 3D printing. It uses a solid plastic filament (think thin wire) to build your figurine layer by layer.

Omani design collective Nawa has created a plastic-free filament for 3D printing using waste date seeds, which is on display at Dutch Design Week. Called RePit as a play on the word "repeat", the ...

Plastic bags start out as fossil fuels and end up as deadly waste in landfills and the ocean. Birds often mistake shredded plastic bags for food, filling their stomachs with toxic debris. For hungry ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi Scientists have found plastic pollution almost everywhere they have looked. In clouds. On Mount Everest. In Arctic snow. Now, for the first time, tiny plastic particles have been ...

At home, keep cold air out with inexpensive draft excluders, and switch to LED lighting whenever a filament-style bulb burns out. Another area for reducing is bottled water. Rather than buying and ...

Most printers in this segment build 3D objects out of successive layers of molten plastic, a technique known as fused filament fabrication (FFF). It's also called fused deposition modeling (FDM ...

Among their advantages? They muffle the operating noise, as well as reduce the odor from melted filament (which is potentially an issue with ABS plastic), and they provide some protection for ...