The 3D-printing scene is a hotbed of creativity, with enthusiastic makers using the printers to generate everything from homemade braces to custom remote control car parts. One of the latest ...

It is never too early to start making, as one 12-year-old tinkerer has proved this week by releasing details of a 3D printer they have created using a LEGO Mindstorms EV3 kit and a low-cost 3D ...

There is a little thrill in watching something you designed get built, layer by layer, by a 3D printer. But it's a slow thrill. 3D printing, even for a small object, can take a loooooong time. If ...

As the 3D printing revolution continues, prices of 3D printers have continued to fall, with devices such as the Buccaneer 3D printer set to sell for under US$400. But even that is still too expensive ...

There’s something about Japanese-style Mecha that make them even more appealing when made out of blocky bits of Lego – and this 3D printed frame makes building a robot of your own design all the more ...

Given some biodegradable 3D printing filament and tasked with doing something creative with it, Vimal Patel built an extruder using Lego, attached it to a rather ordinary hot glue gun and ended up ...

(Nanowerk News) This is a 3D printer that prints in hot glue and is made almost completely out of legos. Based roughly on the first version of the makerbot, while it does print, it is more of a ...

LEGO parts are plastic. 3D printers make parts out of plastic. So the transitive property tells us that a LEGO 3D printer should be able to recreate itself. This one’s not quite there yet, mostly ...

An engineering student lacking the funds for a Makerbot creates one himself with the goods he happened to have available: a box of Lego. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes to get ...

Tired of the same old, boring laminated pattern that’s in all of your 3D printed stuff? Industrial design student Vimal Patel was, and so he decided to fashion himself a 3D doodler, out of a hot glue ...

If you had a lucky childhood, tucked away in a corner of your closet was a gigantic collection of loose Legos. It was the culmination of dozens of kits and construction sets, collected over the years ...

3D printers are changing the world, for good and ill. Doctors can now 3D-print replacement bones perfectly customized to their patient's anatomy while terrorists could potentially print untraceable ...