While cheap hobby CNC mills and routers are great machines that allow you to build things a 3D printer just can’t handle, they do have their limitations. They’re usually powered by a Dremel or other ...

IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire -02/02/12)- Roland DGA Corp. has introduced the iModela hobby milling machine, providing hobbyists with easy and affordable access to 3D milling technology. "iModela is a ...

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.

Paused for the summer is the CNC milling machine project, but an eye is being kept on suitable electronics. My set-up has external stepper motor driver boxes, and so on-board drivers are superfluous.

It’s a great time to be a hobbyist. No matter how you feel about the Arduino/Raspberry Pi effect, the influx of general enthusiasm and demand it has created translates to better availability of ...

If you are an active hobbyist and DIY person, then it surely feels already normal to have an advanced 3D printer at home. Or maybe a nice laser engraver for your personal projects. But some of the ...

Hybrid manufacturing systems like DMG Mori's Lasertec 65 DED hybrid are starting to pop up here and there with the ability both to add metal via laser deposition 3D printing, and to subtract it via ...