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 ...

When he founded MakerBot eight years ago, Pettis made a multi million-dollar bet that at-home 3-D printing would become the future of manufacturing. Today, that prediction still hasn't materialized.

Automation complements rather than replaces human expertise. In many scenarios, its speed and precision surpass what manual efforts can achieve. There’s a shortage of skilled fabricators, with a ...

Out of the 12 print issues of SNIPS magazine we produce a year, our big industry Buyers Guide is arguably our most important. Inside you'll find more than 200 company listings for HVAC tool and ...

The Fabrication Factory is a protyping facility that supports industry and faculty research as well as teaching in material fabrication and digital craft. Among its high-powered tools are a multi-axis ...

Laser-based metal manufacturing, including powder bed fusion (PBF) 3D printing, requires precise parameter settings that can change even between batches of identical material. Empa researchers Giulio ...

The boundary between automation and human creative production is shifting as new possibilities emerge in digital fabrication. Among those leading this transformation is Jennifer Jacobs, assistant ...