3D printing metal has been somewhat of a holy grail for the last decade in the hobby 3DP ... This isn’t the only approach to DIY metal printing, though. We saw one that used electron beam ...

A Navy ship got a giant liquid-metal 3D printer earlier this month. The printer weighs 4,630 pounds ... Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Email address Sign up Thank you!

Ivan Miranda and Jón Schone, both well-known in the DIY 3D printing community, have transformed a discarded treadmill into a massive belt-driven 3D printer. Their project pushes the boundaries of ...

The first metal 3D printer aboard the International Space Station successfully dribbled out a molten “S curve” last Thursday, in what the European Space Agency (ESA) is calling a “giant leap ...

Built by an Airbus-led team, the printer is about the size of a washing machine—small for metal 3D printers but big for space exploration—and uses high-powered lasers to liquefy metal alloys at ...

NASA astronauts (from left) Suni Williams, Pilot for Boeing's Crew Flight Test, and Jeanette Epps, Expedition 71 Flight Engineer, configure the Metal 3D printer inside the Columbus laboratory module.