3d printing

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,

REVIEW – I received my first 3D printer this past Christmas as a gift from my Mom.  I asked for and received a Creality Ender 3 V2.  It had quite an extensive build process and I struggled a bit to get a good quality first build.  It did not have any kind of auto bed

REVIEW – Replicators are no longer just something that you see in sci-fi movies anymore. With a 3D printer, you can imagine something, model it, and print it. If you’ve wanted to jump into 3D printing but haven’t made the leap because you feared it would be too hard to figure out, I have a

REVIEW – I have been 3D printing for a little while now and am definitely not an expert but with the help of online resources I have been able to make respectable prints on my older and smaller filament printer but I was limited on the size of prints I could make. Let’s see if

REVIEW – I have dabbled in 3D printing but I have only used a Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) style printer where a thin filament is heated and extruded onto a platform to build up your desired object. Stereolithography (SLA) is the other side of the 3D printer coin where a UV laser or light is aimed

REVIEW – When Creality offered to send me their Ender-3 S1 3D printer to review, I had quite a dilemma. I wasn’t impressed by their software from the CR-Lizard 3D Scanner, but their printers seemed quite popular. Of course, I opted for doing the review but read on to see if it was a good

REVIEW – Ever since Captain Kirk pulled a plate of food from the replicator on Star Trek in the 60s, I think we’ve all harbored dreams of having everyday objects provided for us in a just-in-time manner. For some, that means 3D printing. There are several folks here who have reviewed 3D printers over the

REVIEW – I recently reviewed a 3D scanner that I wasn’t very impressed by, so when Revopoint offered to send me their Pop 2 3D High-Precision Scanner, I thought I would give it a try. Would I regret it? Keep reading to find out! What is it? The Revopoint Pop 2 is a High-Precision 3D