Many makers all over the world have started spending a good amount of their time at community Makerspaces and Hackerspaces, and as a result, they have had to develop portable tool kits that fit their ...

3D printers are fantastic, but you're unlikely to see someone carrying one with them to a maker faire, or anywhere else for that matter. Elecfreaks is aiming to provide a portable option for the ...

Elecfreaks has created and launched a new portable 3D printer that has been designed to provide a solid frame, quality prints all combined with affordability. This innovative device aims to ...

First unveiled last month the Freaks3D portable 3D printer has now launched on Indiegogo, with the aim of raising $20,000 in funding to help take the new 3D printing system to market. The Freaks3D 3D ...

Whenever you read about the latest innovation in 3D printing technology, it’s usually about a printer that’s smaller, faster, higher resolution, or prints in some kind of exotic new material. It’s not ...

A pair of MIT mechanical engineering students has developed the first truly portable 3D printer, which fits neatly into a metal briefcase. PopFab—designed by MIT CADLab’s Ilan Moyer and Nadya Peek of ...

3D printers generally have a pretty large footprint, so it was likely only a matter of time before someone decided to work on shrinking one to the point of portability. Just, well, because. Meet ...

NORTH HUNTINGDON, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ExOne Company (Nasdaq: XONE), the global leader in industrial sand and metal 3D printers using binder jetting technology, has been awarded a U.S. Department ...

You don’t normally think of a 3D printer as a necessity for an antenna project. However, if you are interested in making a handy portable antenna, you might want to melt some plastic. [N2MXX] has an ...

Inside a lab in Toronto, researchers are testing a device that looks a little like a dispenser for packing tape–but instead of tape, it lays down thin, squishy strips of 3D-printed skin. For someone ...

In this era of cheap turn-key machines, the idea of actually building your own desktop 3D printer might seem odd to some. But if you’re looking for a challenge, and want to end up with a printer that ...