3d printer

Flashforge AD5X Is a Best-Selling Printer for a Reason

Manufacturer: Flashforge Price: $550 Link: flashforge.com/products/flashforge-ad5x-3d-printer “Multicolor Is Hot!” proclaimed the cover of Make: Volume 88, highlighting the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon AMS system that finally broke multi-material printing through to the masses. But with its original price of almost $1,500, a large swath of the maker audience was excluded from the multi-material mania by cost. That’s why I was excited to learn about the Flashforge AD5X at RAPID + TCT 2025 in Detroit (you...

March 23, 2026Uncategorized, , , , , 0 Comments
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Review: Snapmaker U1 Strikes Hard

This is an excerpt from our cover story in the upcoming Make: Vol. 96 Multicolor and multi-material printing has been a goal in the desktop 3D printing space for at least 15 years. We’ve seen numerous different attempts at bringing this to fruition, from carriages with multiple extruders to filament swapping devices, but all of these came with reliability or waste issues that made them just not quite right. So when E3D, a company known for innovation in...

January 21, 2026Uncategorized, , , , , , 0 Comments
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This novel 3D printer kinematic system uses a mouse sensor for closed-loop control

Arduino Team — August 12th, 2025 Robert Murray-Smith wants to experiment with a novel 3D printer kinematic system that drives a round bed through a friction interface — essentially a polar 3D printer, but without the backlash associated with gears. However, friction drives have a tendency to slip and so he will need closed-loop control of the system and that will require a sensor to monitor position. In a recent video, he demonstrated how it is...

August 12, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , 0 Comments
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Bambu H2D vs Prusa Core One: Reviewed

This article appeared in Make: Vol 94. Subscribe for more great reviews. While we normally review machines independently, these new flagship models — the Prusa Core One and the Bambu H2D — are hard not to compare against each other. Back in the good old days of Make:’s 3D printer testing, we put machines through a series of tests to quantify how well they worked. So I ran all the old test models with the H2D and...

August 6, 2025Uncategorized, , , , , , 0 Comments
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