Most 3D printers use stepper motors to control the movement of the extruder head. If you could actually print those motors it would be one more big step toward self-replicating hardware. Now obviously ...

The question is: how to ‘cnc’ a manual Sieg X1 milling machine – the so called ‘micro mill’ that comes out in so many guises including the Clarke CMD10 featured here, available from Machine Mart, but ...

It’s little secret that stepper motors are everywhere in FDM 3D printers, but there’s no real reason why you cannot take another type of DC motor like a brushless DC (BLDC) motor and use that instead.

As far as consumer-grade 3D printers are concerned, MakerBot’s replicator is a powerful unit with a print volume of 456 cubic inches and a 100 micron layer resolution. It can fabricate some pretty ...

Canon has brought out a back-end process semiconductor lithography i-line stepper system for 3D packaging technologies with a 0.8 µm resolution and an exposure field of 100 mm x 100 mm. The FPA-5520iV ...

Stellamove have created a new 3D printer called the RAPY, which according to its creators is one of the first DC potor powered 3D printers with a position feedback control. Current 3D printers are ...

Bipolar stepper motors are used in many applications, from driving paper through a printer to moving an XY stage in industrial equipment. Typically, the motors are driven and controlled by inexpensive ...