The Oak Ridge Board of Education voted Monday night to use state funds to buy new manufacturing tools for Oak Ridge High School. These tools, a 3D printer and a 5-axis mill, will be part of ORHS ...
Not content with the quality of parts made from 3D printers, and frustrated by the noise and mess created by milling machines, startup Mebotics has designed and built a machine that is both a 3D ...
If you’re in the market for a personal fabrication machine, you probably already know that your budget might allow for a 3D printer or a CNC machine, but not both, and an additional 3D scanner would ...
MIT students have created a portable factory for rapid prototyping, fitting a 3D printer and a CNC milling machine inside an ordinary briefcase. MIT students have created a portable factory for rapid ...
When it comes to creating dentures, artificial teeth can be milled or 3D printed, but which method is more accurate? Both processes were deemed clinically acceptable in a head-to-head comparison that ...
As 3D printers become more affordable and start to make their appearance in homes, we are sure to see new enterprises evolve, and owners creating weird and wonderful printed goods. The advent of 3D ...
What do you get when you combine additive and subtractive manufacturing? No, it’s not a math problem that adds up to zero, but rather an impressive-looking hybrid computer-controlled milling machine ...
CNC mills will never match real heavy metal mills on hard materials, but that won’t stop people from pushing the limits of these DIY machines. One of the usual suspects, [Ivan Miranda] is at it again, ...
Anyone looking for a desktop 3D printer and CNC milling machine may be interested in a new system called the Reach 3D which will soon be launching via the Kickstarter crowdfunding website and will be ...
There are no shortage of CNC machines in the DIY space these days, but sometimes you just need to do things your own way. That’s what [Chris Borges] decided when he put together this rock-solid, ...