Friction welding the 3D-printed pieces was a possibility ... which isn’t enough to really melt PLA properly. Another thing that became clear during this process was that the glue gun had special ...

While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser cutters -- he also loves to play board games and tabletop RPGs. Expertise 3D printers ...

An interesting research project out of MIT shows that it’s possible to embed machine-readable labels into 3D ... printed objects using nothing more than an FDM printer and filament that is ...