Don’t fry your Raspberry Pi or other sensitive electronics: Learn when to use ESD-safe filament for static protection and when conductive filament is appropriate for sensors, controls, and low-current circuits.
As July strikes again, SUNLU is celebrating its 13th Anniversary, marking more than a decade of innovation in 3D printing materials, filament drying technology, and user-focused product development.
New for Bambu Lab's first-gen CoreXY machines, E3D now offers Bastion Coated Gears – a £45 (~$60) drop-in replacement for the X1C, X1E, P1S and P1P 3D printers. The main draw is a diamond-like carbon coating on the drive gears and hobbs that's hard-wearing and self-lubricating, E3D says.
Colorway completionists won't be able to pair them with the purple high-flow ObXiDian 500 nozzles – only the newer Bambu Lab machines get those – but as a standalone upgrade for your long-running X1C, X1E, P1P, or P1S, it's likely a fine and funky addition all the same.
Launching as the standalone Centauri 2 3D printer, and the Centauri 2 Combo bundle with Elegoo's Canvas filament switcher, the new printers are available at discounted launch pricing for a limited time.
We uploaded 10 different parts to the top marketplace for 3D printing services and compared practical, budget-friendly options with higher-quality alternatives.
The thought occurred to me this last week that the explicit notice in 3D printer handbooks against leaving them unattended has quietly disappeared. Chalk it up to manufacturers' confidence in the failsafes and design of their machines in 2026 perhaps. Of the modern printer handbooks that I scrubbed through to check my thinking for this poll, I could find only Prusa persisting with such a note.
Prints can easily run into the tens of hours or longer – meaning we’re all forced to draw our own line on risk. Where does your comfort level actually sit?
Following the launch of its Innovation Fund earlier this month, the content team at Snapmaker has published a lengthy interview with the lead maintainers of OrcaSlicer, plus Radu, the developer of FullSpectrum, that answers that very question, as well as gleans insight on the origins of the Orca, as well as the challenges and thought-processes behind maintaining one of the most-used slicers in 3D printing.
To recap, Prusa's solution to companies stealing its and others' work is the open community licence (OCL), a set of usage terms the company designed to give it and others publishing works under it a more effective stick to beat violators with.
The OCL v1.1 update introduces a plugin system for adding additional clauses without cluttering and confusing the simple core license, as well as tightens copyleft. The company announced the update in a blog post that also signals the introduction CERN OHL-S v2 as an option on Printables.
The M1D mixes the traditional benefits of IDEX like copy and mirror modes with the flexibility of a toolchanger. Currently in a deposit scheme, it'll eventually launch on Kickstarter, starting at $1,499.
Revopoint’s expansion into workflow-enhancing 3D scanning forms continues with the Trackit, a multi-mode laser 3D scanner that, paired with its companion tracking tower, eliminates the need for painstaking use of tracking dots.
Swedish exhaust specialist Ferrita used a Meltio robotic wire-laser DED system to produce two matching stainless-steel side-exhaust tip assemblies for a customized Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, reportedly halving the cost of conventional production.
Launching soon, Hi3D 3.0 streamlines the AI-to-print workflow with new automation tools for model splitting and more, plus anniversary discounts of up to 80%.
with MGM Studios Inc. leaning on 3D model repository Cults to prevent the keyword "stargate" – which MGM owns the trademark for – from returning results. Never mind the fact that there are many other terms relating to the popular military sci-fi show that still return models, using that one specific search term on Cults (and seemingly only Cults) returns nothing.
Cults hasn't responded to a request for comment on the matter but taking it at face value, it's a visible reminder of how truly nonsensical automated IP enforcements by large companies can be.
New five-color series of high speed PLA filament suitable for the company’s CHT Nextruder nozzles boasts up to 40% print time gains in the right conditions, the company says.
Bambu Lab's prolific range of 3D printers now numbers in the double-digits: they're a sliding scale of capabilities and feature-sets that can be tricky to tell apart. From the "gateway" A1 to the 7-nozzle all-capable H2C, here's how they all compare.
The perpetual joke-turned-technical-challenge of running Doom on inappropriate hardware has found its way to the Prusa Core One, courtesy of Nils_N3DP on Reddit. Posted to the r/prusa3D subreddit and documented on Instagram, Nils' effort crammed the first level of the timeless, OG boomer-shooter onto their custom inverted-color Core One (which is itself a marvel – check it out).
Meet the family behind LittlePrintyCo, an overnight Instagram and Etsy sensation running four basement printers after 11-year-old Milla's passion sparked a booming brand.
But getting one on virtually any filament you could want? That's the rare feeling of a Polymaker Restock sale. Right now, and running through to July 5, 2026, you can grab deals sitewide, like 1 kg spools of Panchroma CoPE for $13, or, a rarer sight, Polymaker's nifty modular PolyDryer drybox system at 20% off.
The compact network appliance gives businesses a secure, local API for connecting Bambu Lab printers to their existing production and manufacturing systems.
Eric Utley, applications engineering manager at Protolabs, explains the engineering principles behind Gaudí's architecture and how they can help you design better support-free 3D prints.