The 3D-printing scene is a hotbed of creativity, with enthusiastic makers using the printers to generate everything from homemade braces to custom remote control car parts. One of the latest ...

Before ‘3D printing’ became a catch-all term, the hardware, which has been in use for decades, was referred to as a rapid prototyper. But even waiting five hours for a ‘rapidly’ printed part can be a ...

Imagine the power to clone your favorite LEGO piece—not just any piece, but let’s say, one that costs €50 second-hand. [Balazs] from RacingBrick posed this exact question: can a 3D scanner recreate ...

There is a little thrill in watching something you designed get built, layer by layer, by a 3D printer. But it's a slow thrill. 3D printing, even for a small object, can take a loooooong time. If ...

Watch as we use a 3D printer to create a massive, pure white LEGO minifigure from scratch! Follow the process from printing ...

An engineering student lacking the funds for a Makerbot creates one himself with the goods he happened to have available: a box of Lego. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

As the 3D printing revolution continues, prices of 3D printers have continued to fall, with devices such as the Buccaneer 3D printer set to sell for under US$400. But even that is still too expensive ...

It is never too early to start making, as one 12-year-old tinkerer has proved this week by releasing details of a 3D printer they have created using a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit and a low-cost 3D ...

Microfluidics allows for the precise manipulation of fluids on the small scale. For many years it has been hailed as a technology capable of revolutionising research in the chemical and biological ...

Given some biodegradable 3D printing filament and tasked with doing something creative with it, Vimal Patel built an extruder using Lego, attached it to a rather ordinary hot glue gun and ended up ...

Although far less popular than the easy-to-obtain LEGO bricks, one lucky MacRumors reader has been able to use a 3D printer to design and print out their own personal Apple Watch stand. The resulting ...

With 2400 LEGO bricks and a lot of patience, [Will Gorman] built a LEGO 3D printer. It’s similar to a RepRap or a Makerbot, but instead of extruding plastic, it uses pre-extruded building blocks (aka ...