A lot of scientific software is freeware or free/open source software (FOSS). That’s appropriate: just as the process of science should be open to enhance reproducibility, its tools should be as ...

For decades 3D printing has been available in some form, but it wasn’t until the likes of MakerBot and other startups who began producing affordable hardware for the hobby to really take off. In the ...

If you have ever wanted to build your very own 3D printer but have been a little confused as to where to start and feel the variety of different RepRap 3D printer projects a little bewildering. You ...

Carve CNC, known as Easel 3D, which enables the adaptation of 3D printing files for use on the X-Carve. The project features a DIY Bluetooth Horn Speaker created using this software.

The beginning of the DIY 3D printing movement was a heady time. There was a vision of a post-scarcity world in which everything could and would be made at home, for free. Printers printing other ...

The University of Southern California’s ‘MxR’ Lab today launched an ‘open source’ DIY virtual reality website. The lab is making freely available many of their innovative virtual reality hardware and ...

Over the last couple of years we have featured many different types of 3D printers ranging in price from a tens of thousands of pounds to just a few. However more recently we have seen the prices drop ...