There comes a time when almost everyone struggles to collect costly components for hobby electronics experiments. Let us face it. When a new idea pops up, a profitable strategy is to repurpose some ...

There’s an old saying about something being a “drop in the ocean.” That’s how I felt faced with the prospect of replacing a 12 V heated bed on my printer with a new 24 V one. The old bed had a nice ...

Converting mains voltage down to 12 or 24VDC to drive a heating element makes no sense. To get 120 watts at 12 volts requires thick wires that can handle 10 amps, whereas at 120V, tiny 1A wires will ...

As the 3D printer market for consumers matures, we have seen brands, arrayed from high end to low, distinguish themselves as leaders in their niches: Prusa, AnyCubic, Creality. Some of their 3D ...

For the last three months or so, I've been learning to use (and love) a Bambu Labs A1 3D printer, a big, loud machine that sits on my desk and turns pictures on my computer screen into real-world ...

For a couple of years now, I've been trying to find an excuse to buy a decent 3D printer. Friends and fellow Ars staffers who had them would gush about them at every opportunity, talking about how ...