The Penrose Triangle is as elegant as it is impossible—much like M.C. Escher’s drawings, ... Second, 3D printing today remains a hobbyist-driven enterprise with a high barrier to entry.

His team is one of the first in North Carolina to use 3D printers to assist in their investigations. Using data and imagery from a 3-D scanner, the 3D printer produces replicas of crashed cars.

Triangle Business Journal. ... "The fundamental benefit of a 3D printing approach is being able to design a project yourself and print it on demand according to your own specifications," he says.

Don’t throw out those used coffee grounds—use them for 3D printing instead Any object you create can be thrown back into a coffee grinder and reused on a new object.

3D printers range in size, price, precision—and, because of those variables, cost. Do you plan to print toys for your children, or is it a way to introduce your kids to STEM?

3D printing can be a fun and productive hobby and skill, but there can be a lot of confusion around the files involved. Here are some you should know about.

The best way to simplify a complex model for 3D printing is to reduce its triangle mesh. Sometimes called decimating, this process takes away a lot of the complex geometry that is great to have ...

Chris Anderson, CEO of 3D Robotics and the former editor of Wired magazine, says everyone should own a three-dimensional printer. Manufacturing is the hot topic today, but not in the traditional ...

Dalian University of Technology researchers advance flexible circuits using 3D printing - producing freestanding 3D ...

3D printing used to mean intricately-shaped chunks of plastic or resin, but the range of materials available to churn out one-off designs has grown, through glass and stainless steel to – now ...

But engineers haven’t got 3D maps all figured out yet. For one thing, cities are huge, and full of small details. There has to be room for compromise, Lee says.

A 3D print of Yale's campus that Henry made in her first 3D printing class. Kristen Henry "I pulled data for overviews of details over campus," she said.