Here’s a great low cost filament extruder solution. It uses basic parts available from any hardware store, and a few 3D printed ones — estimated cost is well under $100. It’s very similar to the Lyman ...

Recycling plastic into filament normally involves chopping it into tiny pieces and pushing it through a screw extruder. [JRT3D] is taking a different approach with PetBot, which cuts PET bottles into ...

Didyou know that 3D printing generates a lot of plastic waste? This mayseem odd at first, but every enthusiast knows the amount of plasticthat gets wasted before any successful printing is done.

As everyone who owns a 3D printer knows, filament is expensive. A number of solutions have been created to get around this problem, but recently 83-year-old Hugh Lyman may have solved the problem for ...

Making your own filament for your 3D printer with an affordable Filastruder filament extruder is getting closer. Filastruder that hit their Kickstarter target $5000 within one hour and hit nearly ...

Last week, we took a first look at the dual-filament Ultimaker 3 printer. This week, we dive into one of the key features that provides the printer with its power and flexibility: its extruders.

However, industrial 3D printing machines differ greatly from traditional desktop printers. Besides the format of the machines and the prints, one major difference can be found in the material that is ...

3D Platform (3DP), a global leader in manufacturing large-format, industrial-strength 3D machines, has produced a High Flow Air Cooled (HFA) extruder that is the first in a new line of ...

Bambu Lab releases its third generation 3D printer, a desktop machine capable of multi-material 3D printing at the touch of a ...