If you're in the market for a 3D printer, you'll find one here that fits your needs. The US Environmental Protection Agency reports that the US generated 35.7 million tons (roughly the weight of 17.8 ...
Typically, when we think of 3D printing, we think of gooey melted plastics or perhaps UV-cured resins. However, there’s a great deal of research going on around printing special impregnated filaments ...
On December 27, Creative3DP launched a Kickstarter campaign for PETFusion 2.0 — and within three hours, the device was fully funded. PETFusion 2.0 is both a PET (polyethylene terephthalate) bottle ...
Sunny Isais, a junior at Colony High School in Ontario, has developed a method for recycling plastic bottles into filament for 3D printers. Isais, who wants to study aerospace or mechanical ...
Learn how to turn recycled plastic bottles into 3D printing filament and craft your own boots sustainably. #3DPrinting ...
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 ...
Plastic waste is a big problem in our world today. It's important for makers who use 3D printing technology (which generates plastic objects) to consider the waste hierarchy paradigm. Here's the thing ...
It's old news that open-source 3D printing has a lot going for it: it's cheap, green and incredibly useful for making everything from lab equipment to chess pieces. Now it's time to add another star ...