The development of cheaper, more powerful lasers has always been a cause for excitement among hackers, and fiber lasers are no exception. One of the newer tools they’ve enabled is the laser welder, ...

The main mechanical tools in a hacker’s shop used to be a drill press and a lathe. Maybe a CNC mill, if you were lucky. Laser cutters are still a rare tool to find in a personal shop, but today’s ...

Developers, makers and hobbyists looking for a desktop CNC cutter, 3D printer and laser engraver may be interested in any new modular system called the Optimus which has been created by Febtop Tech ...

A Bengaluru-based company has developed a metal 3D printing system that can mass-produce high-precision metal parts at nearly half the cost and in a fraction of the time taken by existing machines.

A 3D printer that uses lasers to build up an object in any order, rather than layer by layer, could produce more advanced designs than is currently possible. Existing 3D printers work by depositing ...