LICHTMAN: This week, we made a house call to visit a super citizen scientist. Jim Smith is not messing around. I mean, we've been talking about citizen scientists for the last couple of minutes, but I ...

Some people are smart, some people are tech savvy and some people have a lot of time on their hands. Some people (like myself) waste most of that free time, but if I were more like the YouTube user -- ...

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 ...

[Nicholas C Lewis, Patrick Hannan, Jared Knutzen, and Joy Markham], students from the University of Washington, have recently taken the wraps off a project which they have been collaborating on, a DIY ...

[HomoFaciens] is always making us feel silly about our purchases. Did we really need to buy a nice set of stepper motors for that automation project? Couldn’t we have just used some epoxy and a ...

Hot on the heels of the candy-object-making printer, an ingenious group of DIY'ers from Russia have managed to create a homemade 3D printer from a CNC lathe kit and some cobbled together bits and ...

Before the Gutenberg press, the mechanical loom, the steam engine, or the computer became ubiquitous, there was a pause. The inventors had hatched the next big thing, and they wondered what would ...

One of the printers in Jim Roscoe's tech classroom goes far beyond serving up tests and handouts. The Coffman High School teacher, with the help of students, built a 3D printer last spring and is now ...

Hello World! One Lego enthusiast has made a working https://www.pcworld.com/products/printers.html using spare Lego bricks, a felt-tip pen, a few mechanical parts ...