From Hospital Bed to 3D Printer: New Project Brings Design Skills to Young Patients
A University of Nottingham-led project will bring 3D design and printing to children and young people taught in hospital education across England, and will stud…
Print Up to 75% Faster: Anker eufyMake E1 Update Unlocks Bidirectional Printing and More
Bidirectional printing, a guided design flow, and flexible ink arrive in a multitude of updates for Anker eufyMake's desktop UV printer.
2026 Retrocomputing Challenge: I Would Do Anything For Serial Data
These days we take high-speed networking for granted, but it can be difficult to get vintage computers talking to modern machines. To help solve this problem [j…
Robots That Move, Sense and Harvest Energy: DMU Turns to 3D Printed Muscles
A De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) researcher will study whether 3D printing can produce artificial muscles for a new generation of soft robots. Dr Meisam…
New App Turns G-code Into Studio Product Photos, but We’d Still Like to See the Real Thing
We tested this new app that renders photorealistic images of 3D prints without actually printing them. Handy for sellers, perhaps less so for those of us who wa…
That Weird 7-Pin S-Video Port on Old Laptops
Even though laptops from around the early 2000s came with just about every conceivable port on them, they still would often feature a somewhat unusual combined…
Artec 3D Releases Artec Twins to Render 3D Scans with Billions of Points in Real Time
Luxembourg-based Artec 3D has released Artec Twins, a software platform for processing, rendering, and analyzing 3D scans of large environments, including point…
No More Glue? Researchers Find C-Shaped Joints Outperform Dovetails in PLA Prints
Testing three interlocking joint designs for PLA part strength, researchers find that the shape and size of a connection makes a big difference.
Making for Others
One of the nicest things about the Hackaday community, and the open-source hardware community at large, is the incredible generosity of one hacker to another. B…
Peopoly brings laser leveling to $15,000 large-format pellet 3D printer
Hong Kong-based 3D printer manufacturer Peopoly has opened general sales of its Giga 800 Fused Granulate Fabrication (FGF) 3D printer, starting at $15,000 (EXW)…
Ditch the Paintbrush: The Flashforge CJ270 Prints 10 Million Colors on Your Desk
This compact photopolymer printer deposits seven distinct resins, producing hyper-realistic gradients, skin tones, and clear accents.
Watch VCF Southwest in Retrotastic SGI-Edited Footage
There’s just something about backing way, way off the cutting edge to rediscover the simpler joys of yesteryear. We’ve got a contest about to wrap up along thos…
3Descu enables 3D printing quotes through ChatGPT and Claude
Romanian 3D printing service provider 3Descu has opened its manufacturing quotation engine to AI assistants, allowing engineers to obtain production pricing dir…
Formlabs Just Brought Industrial Resin Tech Down to $699 with New Form Studio 1
The professional 3D printing manufacturer is going after a new market with an affordable LCD printer, $29 resin, and a compact wash-and-cure station.
A Walkie Talkie Interface For Claude
[Bookmari] had a problem — working as a delivery driver, they wanted to work on various projects with Claude Code while out and about. Unfortunately, it simply…