From fidget spinners to key holders, spiral vases to a Marvel Ironman mask, finding cool things to 3D print is easy and readily available on the web. It may be too easy. While this column usually ...

3D printer company MakerBot has revealed a tie-up with crowdsourced printing network 3D Hubs that aims to bring 3D printing to designers without their own dedicated machine — which basically means ...

Thingiverse, MakerBot's online repository for all things 3D printing, recently reached a major milestone — 1 million uploads and 200 million downloads — thanks to an ever-expanding community of ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. 3D printing is becoming more common at schools across the world, but there's still a skills gap in using this new ...

MakerBot, the makers of 3D printers, pulled plans for a key component of an AR15 semi automatic rifle from its blueprint marketplace Thingverse. Anyone could download Michael "HaveBlue" Guslick's ...

Recently, Thingiverse removed the 3D designs of the AR15 and other weapons from its 3D printing file library. Although the STL files can be found in torrent sharing websites, it has been removed from ...

A small 3D printing company called Just3DPrint has scraped a large portion of Thingiverse, Makerbot’s Creative Commons-based database of 3D models. The company then posted these models for sale on ...

After the events in Newtown, the gun control debate has taken on a new urgency. Suddenly 3D-printed firearms look a lot less like a thought-provoking experiment and more like a danger to the ...

Citing its Terms of Service, MakerBot has removed designs for AR15 and other weapon components from its 3D printing file library. Rich was the editorial lead for CNET ...