Comments Scientists have used Lego to build a 3D printer (Picture: Getty) It has been used to build a life-sized velociraptor, the Batmobile and a six-foot replica of the space shuttle.

Welsh scientists have built a human-skin printer from Lego for less than £500 and which could change the way doctors treat skin diseases. Sion Coulman, Chris Thomas and Oliver Castell, lecturers ...

Anyone who’s ever tinkered with it will know that not only is Lego extremely cheap and versatile, but it’s also manufactured to very high precision with standardised parts that are globally accessible ...

Introducing the home-made LEGO 3D printer… with a chocolate extruder. [Gosse Adema] has been working on his LEGO based 3D printer for a while now, and it’s gotten pretty good.

If you frequently use a 3D printer for your projects then you may experience issues calculating the material weight and length usage. If so, then you might be interested in this project using Arduino.

A 3D printer constructs the building blocks for the canal house in Amsterdam. At the core of the project is a 6-meter (20-foot) -tall printer dubbed the Kamermaker, or "room-builder." ...

Printing synthetic human skin using a Lego 3D bioprinter. We have provided details on how we built our Lego 3D bioprinter, giving clear instructions on how to reconstruct this device in any lab ...