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Believe it or not, you can now squeeze wood through the nozzle of your 3D printer. This new addition to the maker's palette of 3D printer filaments comes from the mind of [Kai Parthy]. The new filament - going by the name Laywood - is a mix of recycled wood fibers and polymer binders that can be melted and extruded just like any other 3D printer filament. Parts printed with Laywood have … [Read more...]
3D printers such as the RepRap and Makerbot turn spools of plastic filament into just about any object imaginable. There's a problem though: this filament costs about $40 a kilogram, and raw plastic pellets cost about 1/10th of that. Obviously, there's a lot of room for improvement. The folks at Inventables are throwing $40,000 at the problem in a contest to build a machine that takes plastic … [Read more...]
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