The Trials Of Trying To Build An Automatic Filament Changer - Running out of filament mid-print is a surefire way to ruin your parts and waste a... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/11/the-trials-of-trying-to-build-an-automatic-filament-changer/ #filamentchanger #3dprinterhacks #3dprinter #filament

How to Design 3D-Printed Parts With Tolerance in Mind - One of the continuing struggles with FDM printing is making sure that parts that s... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/how-to-design-3d-printed-parts-with-tolerance-in-mind/ #3dprinterhacks #3dprinting #fdm

Open Source 5-Axis Printer Has Its Own Slicer - Three-axis 3D printing has been with us long enough that everybody knows the limit... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/04/open-source-5-axis-printer-has-its-own-slicer/ #3dprinterhacks #5-axisslicer #3dprinter #klipper #5-axis #slicer

Squishy Beyblades Made With 3D Printer Fail To Compete In The Arena - When Beyblades first came out a couple of decades ago, they quickly became a fad a... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/02/squishy-beyblades-made-with-3d-printer-fail-to-compete-in-the-arena/ #3dprinterhacks #spinningtops #toyhacks #beyblade #games

Turning Waste Plastic into Spools of Filament - Despite being a readily-available source of useful plastic, massive numbers of dis... - https://hackaday.com/2025/08/01/turning-waste-plastic-into-spools-of-filament/ #3dprinterfilament #filamentextruder #3dprinterhacks #filamentjoiner #greenhacks #petplastic #recycling

The LumenPnP Pasting Utility: Never Buy Solder Stencils Again? - Over on his YouTube channel the vivacious [Stephen Hawes] tells us that we never n... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/30/the-lumenpnp-pasting-utility-never-buy-solder-stencils-again/ #fiducialcalibration #solderpasteextruder #3dprinterhacks #solderstencils #softwarehacks #pickandplace #videohacks #toolhacks #cnchacks #hardware #pcbhacks #lumenpnp

Destructive Testing of ABS and Carbon Fiber Nylon Parts - PAHT-CF part printed at 45 degrees, with reinforcing bolt, post-failure. (Credit: ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/28/destructive-testing-of-abs-and-carbon-fiber-nylon-parts/ #3dprinterhacks #nylon #abs #fdm

Painting in Metal with Selective Electroplating - Most research on electroplating tries to find ways to make it plate parts more un... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/24/painting-in-metal-with-selective-electroplating/ #electrochemistry #electrolytebath #3dprinterhacks #chemistryhacks #electroplating #electrolyte #cnc

Nylon-Like TPU Filament: Testing CC3D’s 72D TPU - Another entry in the world of interesting FDM filaments comes courtesy of CC3D wit... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/22/nylon-like-tpu-filament-testing-cc3ds-72d-tpu/ #3dprinterfilament #3dprinterhacks #tpu

Paste Extrusion for 3D Printing Glass and Eggshells - In contrast to the success of their molten-plastic cousins, paste extrusion 3D pr... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/22/paste-extrusion-for-3d-printing-glass-and-eggshells/ #3dprinterhacks #pasteextruder #3dprinting #eggshell #glass

Elegoo Rapid PETG vs PETG Pro: Same Price, Similar Specs, Which to Buy? - Even within a single type of FDM filament there is an overwhelming amount of choic... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/19/elegoo-rapid-petg-vs-petg-pro-same-price-similar-specs-which-to-buy/ #3dprinterfilament #3dprinterhacks #polylacticacid

Building a Stirling Engine Bike - Over on his YouTube channel [Tom Stanton] shows us how to build a Stirling Engine ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/building-a-stirling-engine-bike/ #transportationhacks #3dprinterhacks #stirlingengine #enginehacks #cnchacks #hardware #bicycle

This Service Life Study Really Grinds Our Gears - 3D printing is arguably over-used in the maker community. It’s just so easy to run... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/17/this-service-life-study-really-grinds-our-gears/ #destructivetesting #3dprinterhacks #3dprintedgears #lifetime #science

Introducing PooLA Filament: Grass Fiber-Reinforced PLA - We’re probably all familiar with adding wood dust, hemp and carbon fibers to PLA f... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/14/introducing-poola-filament-grass-fiber-reinforced-pla/ #3dprinterfilament #3dprinterhacks #polylacticacid

An Open-Concept 3D Printer Using Cantilever Arms - If you’re looking for a more open, unenclosed 3D printer design than a cubic fram... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/an-open-concept-3d-printer-using-cantilever-arms/ #autobedleveling #3dprinterhacks #cantilever #3dprinter

Trickle Down: When Doing Something Silly Actually Makes Sense - One of the tropes of the space race back in the 1960s, which helped justify the sp... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/12/trickle-down-when-doing-something-silly-actually-makes-sense/ #hackadaycolumns #3dprinterhacks #newsletter #3dbenchy #trickle #benchy #rants

Double Your Printing Fun with Dual-Light 3D Printing - Using light to 3D print liquid resins is hardly a new idea. But researchers at the... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/10/double-your-printing-fun-with-dual-light-3d-printing/ #3dprinterhacks #resin3dprinter #3dprinting #resin

Hacking a Guitar into a Hurdy-Gurdy Hybrid with 3D Prints - If you’re looking for a long journey into the wonderful world of instrument hackin... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/10/hacking-a-guitar-into-a-hurdy-gurdy-hybrid-with-3d-prints/ #3dprintedmusicalinstruments #3dprinterhacks #musicalhacks #hurdygurdy #hurdygurdy #3dprint #guitar

Ask Hackaday: Are You Wearing 3D Printed Shoes? - We love 3D printing. We’ll print brackets, brackets for brackets, and brackets to ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/10/ask-hackaday-are-you-wearing-3d-printed-shoes/ #hackadaycolumns #3dprinterhacks #3dprintedshoes #askhackaday #3dprinting #shoe

Managing Temperatures for Ultrafast Benchy Printing - Commercial 3D printers keep getting faster and faster, but we can confidently say... - https://hackaday.com/2025/07/08/managing-temperatures-for-ultrafast-benchy-printing/ #3dprinterhacks #printspeed #3dprinter #3dbenchy #benchy