3d printing

REVIEW – I have now owned four different 3D printers.   My first was a Creality Ender 3 V2, a Christmas gift from my Mom.  I then reviewed the Elegoo Neptune 3, which added a self-leveling bed and a magnetic plate to easily remove prints.  The next printer that I reviewed was a Mingda Magician Max. 

REVIEW – I’ve been printing all sorts of things ever since I reviewed the Anycubic Vyper FDM printer last year and the Elegoo Saturn 2 resin printer this year. I love being able to print out handy items for spots around the house, or figures or terrain for board games. Every year it seems like every 3D printer

REVIEW –  3D printing is a ton of fun, but waiting hours or days for a print to complete can test anyone’s patience.  Worse yet is when a print fails in the 11th hour.  SUNLU has brought to market the T3 which touts the capability to print at 250 mm/s – or up to five

REVIEW – Do you own a 3D printer? Would you like to make it faster? One way to do this is to run Klipper. Klipper is a standalone software that essentially allows you to 3D print at faster speeds, among other things. Creality recently released the Sonic Pad, a 3D printing pad based on Klipper.

REVIEW – After getting bit by the 3D printing bug a few years back the desire to print larger, more complex items quickly followed. Unfortunately, the price of large format 3D printers runs pretty high, with some models costing well into the thousands. But, since I’m only interested in printing items slightly larger than possible

REVIEW – I’m pretty new to resin 3D printing, but I have printed enough items to know that standard 3D resin can be very brittle. Chitu Systems contacted me and asked if I would review their Conjure Rigid Resin, so does it live up to really being rigid? Read on to find out. What is

REVIEW – Interested in 3D printing, but thinking about the tinkering? Do you fancy full features, but fret the fiddling? Sunlu’s S9 Plus packs a potent 3D printer punch with oodles of options, opulent operation, quick commissioning What is it? The Sunlu S9 plus 3D printer is a machine that extrudes layers of thinly extruded

REVIEW – Bigger is always better!  Especially when it comes to making 3D prints.  The 3D printer market has exploded with innovations and printers with larger print beds being made available.  I currently own the Elegoo Neptune 3 3D printer I reviewed this past June.  That great self-leveling printer prints objects up to 220 x

REVIEW – 3D printers are a regular review item here at The Gadgeteer, and I’ve been waiting in the wings to tackle a printer which matches my experience level as a beginner.  In addition to documenting my experience with the Monoprice Joule 3D Printer DIY Assembly Kit, I’ll also be sharing some of the resources

REVIEW – We’ve been looking for a 3D printer for more than a year. It’s a big expense, and there are a lot of factors to consider. In my family, my son wants to create unique figures of his Dungeons & Dragons characters, which are difficult to find in our local game shops. However, since

REVIEW – Six months ago, I was bitten by the 3D printing bug when I reviewed my first 3D printer, the Voxelab Aquila S2. Since then, I have fallen in love with 3D printing. There is a lot to learn. And it can be frustrating at times. But it is one of the most satisfying

REVIEW – As a crafty, gadgety kind of person, I’ve always sort of wanted a 3D printer, but I’ve never really had anything I’ve really needed to print.  Basically, I lacked a project.   Enter my son.  He decided he wanted to make an acoustic levitator and apparently it requires printing some parts.  What is an

REVIEW – There are two popular types of 3D printers on the market today: resin (SLA -Stereolithography) and FDM (fused deposition modeling). We’ve reviewed many of both types here at The Gadgeteer including the previous Saturn model, but this new Elegoo Saturn 2 8k 3D printer will be both my first resin printer to test,