Now there’s yet another option for making your own 3D printer filament: the Filabot Wee. It looks like their once open source model that they pulled from Thinigiverse earlier this year has received a ...

Built-In Memory. Built-In Confidence. The plastic extrusion robot, developed by Vermont Technical College student Tyler McNaney, allows you to recycle all of that plastic to make usable 3D printing ...

Desktop 3D printers have hit price-points that make them as affordable as color laser printers. But they also share the same problem – replacing the printing medium costs an arm and a leg. A kilogram ...

Here’s the situation: a kilogram of 3D printer filament costs about $50. A kilogram of plastic pellets costs less than a tenth of that. Does anyone have a solution to this problem? For years now, the ...

Side view of the Filabot, a machine that could make it a lot easier to recycle household plastic into something immediately useable and useful. Image Credits: Filabot 3D printing, or additive ...

Here’s another project with the worthy ultimate aim of repurposing household plastic waste as useful 3D filament for making new stuff with your home 3D printer. Both the Strooder and the Filabot are ...

In that not-too-far-off day in the future when we’re all using 3-D printers to make new organs, bones, pieces of food, and so on, we may look back and thank Tyler McNaney, a second-year mechanical ...

If 3D printers were to ever become a household item, a device like the Filabot may play a big role in making it happen. Conceived by 34-year-old Tyler McNaney, the unglamorously industrial prototype ...