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Saving the Planet, One Phone Case At A Time

Precious Plastic Creates Recycled iPhone Case with Help From 3D Hubs

The global community Precious Plastic has created a recycled iPhone case with CNC milling from 3D Hubs. The organization has created an open source production ecosystem that includes a plastic waste shredder, an filament extrusion machine, an injection molder, and a compressor to help process the molds.

Material Mania

The Most Exotic 3D Printing Materials That We Know About

So you thought that glow-in the-dark, conductive or magnetic filaments are exotic? You have no idea how exotic things are getting...

Too Cool For Spool

Use Leftover Filament Spools as Tool Drawers with this Nifty Hack

Empty filament spools are a nuisance. Hacking objects is not. With 3D printing you can turn a spent spool into a handy storage solution.

PEEK-a-Boo

ESA is 3D Printing CubeSat for Faster and Cheaper Missions

ESA is 3D printing CubeSat with a unique PEEK plastic that's tough and conducts electricity, potentially leading to cheaper, faster missions.

Feeling the Squeeze

3D Printed Flexible Pliers Made With Dual Extrusion

Dutch filament company ColorFabb demos a set of 3D printed flexible pliers made using dual extrusion with solid and flexible nGen filaments.

Pro PLA

New Heat-Resistant, Antibacterial, Non-Conductive 3D Printing Filament

Philament is a new Hungarian 3D printing filament producer. Besides the standards, they offer industrial grade materials like heat-resistant, antibacterial and non-conductive PLA filament.

News from Additive Manufacturing Show

Colorfabb announces steelFill Filament, “4 Stack” 3D Printer

Filament manufacturer Colorfabb launched their new material „steelFill“ and an innovative 3D printer today on the Additive Manufacturing Show in Amsterdam.

Not All Filaments Are Equal

3D Printing Filament: What to Look for Before Buying

If you're in the market for some new 3D printing filament, make sure you're getting the good stuff by considering a few extra factors!

More Bang for Your Buck

AmazonBasics Premium PLA 3D Printer Filament Review

AmazonBasics offers a number of budget 3D printing materials, including many colors of PLA. But for a few bucks more, they also offer a "premium" PLA. Is this worth the extra cash? Let's find out!

Sponsored Content

Become Your Own Material Maker with the Felfil Evo Filament Extruder

The Felfil Evo is an open-source 3D printer plastic extruder machine that allows you to create customized 3D printing filament from the comfort of your own home. Make your own materials from plastic pellets, flawed or old 3D prints, or plastic waste.

Go Professional

Industrial-Strength FDM Materials from BASF 3D Printing Solutions

Darth Vader Black

Colorfabb Launches High-Quality Semi Matte Black Filament

Nanodiamonds Are Forever

Carbodeon and Tiamet 3D Develop Nanodiamond-Enhanced 3D Printing Filaments

Carbodeon and Tiamet 3D strike up a strategic partnership to develop nanodiamond-enhanced 3D printing filament. This PLA-based material will provide enhanced thermal and mechanical properties, including a 100 percent increase in tensile strength.

New Professional Filament

colorFabb Introduces PA-CF Low Warp Filament

Pre-order the new colorFabb PA-CF low warp filament which is the first material developed in partnership with LEHVOSS Group.

Keep Your Spool Cool

Polymaker Seeks to Keep Filament Safe with PolyBox Container

Polymaker unveils the PolyBox, a container that keeps plastic filaments protected from moisture and sits beside a desktop 3D printing system.

Strength to Strength

Markforge Onyx One is Carbon Fiber 3D Printer for Prosumers

The new Onyx One 3D printer from Markforged will print carbon fiber reinforced parts for a prosumer-friendly starting price of $3,500.

Bring The Cost Down

3D Print Chairs and Furniture with Pellet Filament

WASP wants to bring down the cost for big 3D printed objects. So they invented a new nozzle for 3D printing pellets, which only cost a fraction of regular filament. So now you can 3D print chairs for just some bucks.

Recycling

“Precious Plastic” Offers Free Tools to Recycle Plastic

Dutch initiative "Precious Plastics" have created great tools to recycle waste plastic. And the best: The tools are open source. Free 3D printing filament, anyone?

A Tinkerer’s Dream

Magnetic Filament Helps Print Sensors And Circuitry

What can you 3D print with a powerful magnetic filament? How about circuitry, capacitive touch sensors, or electromagnetic and radio-frequency shielding?

Eco-Friendly Cuppa

Sustainable 3D Printing with “Wound Up” Coffee Filament

A new 3D Printing filament pairs two things we love: sustainability and coffee. That's one 3D Printed Coffee Mug, to go, please.