I was considering ordering a 3D-printing pen to use as a small PLA spot welder ... I manually pushed a bundle of scrap PLA filament through a small desktop glue gun that I didn’t mind ruining.

But there’s at least one use case that it makes sense for ... There is such a thing as bi-color filament (like MatterHackers Quantum PLA) which can be thought of as filament that is split ...

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D printers are affordable enough that almost anyone can buy one, but should you? Before you dive in, here's what to ...

Creality sells many 3D printers at different prices, from the Ender series of fused-deposition modeling (FDM) printers to the ...

The current prototype was created using Polylatic Acid (PLA) filament, chosen because it is ... Hobgood said there are two types of adhesives they could use to fasten the new bill to Polly.

To that end, it comes with one spool of Tough PLA (polylactic acid) and one of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), the latter a water-soluble filament commonly used as a temporary support material during ...