Makerbot 3D printers were among the first to hit the market, so it makes sense that old and broken ones now litter the shelves of hackerspaces and home workshops alike. Rather than throw his one ...

Well, that didn't go as planned. Makerbot's efforts to ride the wave of global consumer 3D printer demand crashed unceremoniously on the shores of Brooklyn and, somehow, washed up in St ...

3D printers sound cool ... We initially bought the MakerBot Replicator 2X ($2,800 for our tested configuration) so that we could create certain objects we need for lab tests: For example, our ...

Multicolor 3D printers have been around for a while, but most of these machines – like the Makerbot Replicator – suffer from alignment problems and the inability to mix colors on the fly.