The Rhino Smart extruder is equipped with a number of useful features such as jam detection and the ability to pause printing if your filament should run out or encounter a problem during a 3D print.

3d printing: the problem with cheap ‘dual-drive’ extruders? The problem: folk are finding wear and gouging under the driven hobbed gear of a certain type of dual-drive extruder. In the photo right of ...

When is a hot glue stick not a hot glue stick? When it’s PLA, of course! A glue gun that dispenses molten PLA instead of hot glue turned out to be a handy tool for joining 3D-printed objects … ...

Engineer Jón Schone recently demonstrated these issues in an experiment that, following much trial and error, converted a hot glue gun into a 3D printing extruder.

The next frontier of desktop 3D printing is multi-material and multi-color prints. Right now, you can buy a dual toolhead for a Lulzbot, and dual toolheads from other companies exist, although they… ...

Scientists from Australia and India have collaborated on a paper published in Bioprinting which investigates and reviews the difficulties inherent to fabricating biomaterials with extrusion-based ...