[Andreas Bastian] has been working on a device that turns an off-the-shelf laser cutter into something capable of selective laser sintering of powdered plastics into 3D objects. He’s put in a lot of ...

A team at Vrije University in Brussels, Belgium, has teamed up with commercial desktop laser cutter provider “Mr Beam” to develop a new freeform lens that improves performance while shrinking the size ...

I couldn’t write very much without a computer. Early in my career, I wrote with a typewriter. Unless you are pretty close to perfect — I’m not — it is very frustrating to make edits on typewritten ...

Using a state-of-the-art laser-assisted diamond-machining system, ULO Optics and LBP Optics are developing a unique class of lenses to fine-tune the laser-cutting process for industrial steels Laser ...

It's hard to believe we've been working with and exploring 3D printers for three years here on ZDNet. Before MakerBot sent me their early Replicator, I had never touched a 3D printer. That said, I was ...

I know many craftsy people. Folk who can knit and crochet, people who draw and paint, people who can carve and whittle wood, and people who can seemingly create anything from almost literally anything ...

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