3D printers are more accessible in 2026, especially for users who want to explore 3D printing for beginners without spending heavily on advanced equipment. Modern cheap 3D printers and budget 3D ...

For a couple of years now, I’ve been trying to find an excuse to buy a decent 3D printer. Friends and fellow Ars staffers who had them would gush about them at every opportunity, talking about how ...

I've stopped buying small PC accessories because my 3D printer makes better ones ...

I'm tired of printing useless stuff.

You might be wondering just how useful a 3D printer actually is if you don't own one yet. You may ask yourself if you'll make enough things with it to make it worthwhile. Coming from a household that ...

3D printers are currently among the most impressive devices you can buy for at-home use, and they're the closest thing we have to replicators from Star Trek. These desktop mini-factories can make all ...

Murray Leinster’s short story Things Pass By, published in 1945, includes what may be the first description of 3D printers: But this constructor is both efficient and flexible. I feed magnetronic ...