It's hard to believe we've been working with and exploring 3D printers for three years here on ZDNet. Before MakerBot sent me their early Replicator, I had never touched a 3D printer. That said, I was ...

Smart factories are new factories. They use machines, computers, and programs to make snapshots faster and more accurately.

Gregg Simpson, President of Ohio Laser said, “The addition of fiber laser cutting will allow us to cut copper, cut brass and cut other nonferrous sheet and thinner materials very efficiently. Fiber ...

Researchers at the Hasso Plattner Institute have worked out a way to make 3-D objects using only a 2-D laser cutter. They call it LaserOrigami. When you own a laser cutter, careful calibration is key.

Once upon a time, an aircraft pilot looking down toward the ground saw only the distant twinkling lights of homes and cities. But pilots have had an unfortunate high-tech worry for many years: ...

After 22 and 40 watts, Creality has now increased the power of the Falcon 2 laser cutter once again to 60 watts. The high power is achieved by twelve laser diodes of 5 watts each, whose beams are ...

In the 1930s, Nikola Tesla claimed to have theorized a “death beam,” which he said was an “apparatus [that] projects particles which may be relatively large or of microscopic dimensions, enabling us ...

Years ago, programmers would fine-tune a static nest layout for laser cutting to ensure the fastest cutting, best process repeatability, and highest material yield possible. While some production runs ...

You know the intricate, elegant, classic pattern found on your grandma's doilies? Imagine that design as an item of clothing. That is laser-cut design. Laser cutting used to be reserved for haute ...