Clean and complete geometry is important for successful 3D printing. A watertight mesh helps reduce common printing problems ...

The 3D printing community has long entertained a seductive fantasy: snap a photo, click a button, and hold a physical object in your hands an hour later. For years, that promise remained firmly in the ...

Valve has always designed hacker-friendly hardware, and in that spirit, [NaKyle Wright] released Inkterface, a design for an ...

Valve shares open-source files that lets you build an e-paper display for the Steam Machine.

Shortly after Steam Machine was revealed, word of an E Ink front panel for Steam Machine was confirmed by Valve as an internal project not intended for consumer release. Even so, Valve did follow up ...

James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s. While his main areas of expertise are maker tools -- 3D printers, vinyl cutters, paper printers, and laser ...

Billy Christian shares his process for using 3D blockouts alongside expressive digital painting techniques.

Meshy is a 3D generation platform transforming text and 2D images into textured 3D assets in minutes. Generating a 3D model and printing it are two separate problems. Text-to-3D and image-to-3D tools ...