From budget enthusiast builds to pro setups, these are our picks of the most reliable 3D printers you can buy. James has been writing about technology for years but has loved it since the early 90s.

The world’s first fully 3D-printed microscope can be made in a few hours and for a fraction of the cost of traditional ones. “It’s not just enabling, it’s empowering,” says Gail ...

These days, movies have so much CGI and so much more to them that we can’t replace them with stage plays. That’s where 3D movies come in. Even with the most unrealistic scenes and visual effects that ...

In a recent lecture on metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), the author developed papercraft models to illustrate their rational design, assembled structures, and properties. The papercraft models comprise ...

It wasn’t just standard gameplay, though. It was glasses-free 3D, and it worked well enough that I was able to play a game as difficult as Lies of P amid construction noise and blinding lights ...

Découpage is a fun, calming and soothing papercraft that anyone of any age and ability can ... Greeting cards are particularly good for a 3D découpage effect which is a different technique from ...

Open3D is an open-source library that supports rapid development of software that deals with 3D data. The Open3D frontend exposes a set of carefully selected data structures and algorithms in both C++ ...

the Kinect-able 3D scanning we saw a while ago. There’s a great video of [Qi] modeling a papercraft church after the break, but check out the actual paper for a better idea of how ProFORMA works.