The beautiful case is printed in a woodfilled PLA — consisting of 70% plastic and 30% sawdust. This allows it to be sanded and stained for an attractive final product.

Like the Arduino microcontrollers, the printer will be open-source. The machine features a print area of 140 x 100 x 100 mm, and a print volume of 1,400 cubic mm.

The centerpiece of the case is an Arduino Uno board, programmed with various code snippets. This board controls a 4988 stepping motor and a Nema 17 motor, responsible for the kinetic movements.

3D printing will likely change manufacturing and even how products reach the home. Meanwhile, Arduino devices make electronic creation accessible to anyone with a laptop computer One of the next ...

That’s what’s so great about 3D printing: the next day I can have a prototype to show [Gilligan].” “You can go from an idea to holding it in your hands, and to be able to fabricate that ...

Arduino, the company best known for building and shipping the absurd number of microcontrollers that power many a DIY electronics project, is about to enter the 3D printing market.