Biqu H2 Extruder Review
Introduction Biqu recently released their new Biqu H2 Extruder. It seems to be targeted towards users of the Biqu BX, Creality Ender 3 and CR-10 style printers where you can swap the stock Bowden …
Artillery Hornet 3D Printer Review
Introduction I’ve reviewed both the Sidewinder X1 and the Genius 3D printers from Artillery in the past and they have provided me their latest addition to the Artillery family, the Hornet.The Hornet …
Triangle Labs Dragon Hotend Review
When I first saw the Triangle Labs Dragon hotend I was intrigued. There were some interesting features with the hot end such as having nickel plated copper heat block to heat up quicker and a …
FS Muse Review – Full Spectrum Muse 2D Review and Versus Glowforge
Full Spectrum Muse review? Isn’t the Glowforge your favourite laser cutter, Chris? Yes, yes it is! But there are reasons we have a Full Spectrum Muse, and I will get into those in the following …
Glowforge Long-Term Review
In my Glowforge Review I have been keeping some information up to date but it is time to give our long-term thoughts. Our first Glowforge laser engraver arrived October 2018. A few months later we …
MONOPRICE MP CADET 3D PRINTER REVIEW
Monoprice has been in the 3D printing game for some time. They have had a variety of 3D printers available that cater to a wide variety of users. Monoprice recently released the MP Cadet 3D printer …
Artillery Genius 3D Printer Review
I have previously reviewed the Artillery Sidewinder X1 and since that time they have relased a smaller slightly different version called the Genius. It is meant to be very similar, like a baby …
ChocoL3D Chocolate 3D Printer Extruder Review
If you are anything like me you’ve thought about what other materials you can 3D print and one of those materials that comes to mind is chocolate. It can be melted down, and formed into amazing …
Sovol SV01 3D Printer Review
Sovol had been on my radar for a little bit with their SV01 3D Printer. I liked some of the unique features they were offering such as a rectangular build volume. I happened to enter one of their …
Prusa SL1 Review – Review of the Josef Prusa SL1 MSLA Resin 3D Printer (First Look)
Prusa SL1 & Prusa CW1 Review / First Impressions. The Prusa SL1 is a masked SLA resin printer, the first from Prusa
Two Trees Sapphire Pro Review
The Sapphire Pro is one of a few recent 3D printers that have hit the market using a coreXY kinematics. I’ve previously reviewed the Sapphire S and I’m excited to see how well the Two Trees Sapphire …
Flux Beamo Review
Flux Beamo is a small, enclosed 30w CO2 laser engraver, that launched on Kickstarter.
Elegoo Mars Review – Review of the Elegoo Mars MSLA Resin 3D Printer
Review of Elegoo Mars, a $250 resin 3D printer - check out this review to see how well it works in practice
Monoprice Ultimate 2 Review
Monoprice Ultimate 2 is a fully-enclosed 3D printer, with auto-level compensation, and filament runout sensor. It has a removable, glass, heated bed, and easily switchable nozzles. Let’s see how …
Monoprice MP Mini SLA 3D Printer Review
I don’t usually post negative reviews. My approach is to first let the company know of any issues I find, and if they can not be resolved, I move on, unless something is particularly dangerous …
Glowforge Review: User-Friendly Laser Cutter
Glowforge Review - Independent review of the Glowforge laser engraver covering the Glowforge Basic and comparing against competing laser cutters
Creality Ender 3 3D Printer Kit Review
The Ender 3, as the name suggests, is the improved successor of the Creality Ender 2 3D printer kit, with a larger build area (~220mm+ x 220mm+ x 250), but still with the aluminium extrusion …
Best K40 Upgrades: Upgrading a Chinese Laser Cutter to USA Brand-Name Quality
In this K40 laser upgrades post we install Smoothie board, Activated Carbon filter and Lightburn software
Best K40 Laser Upgrades: Upgrading for quality and abilities!
Upgrading my K40 laser cutter to have better quality and abilities
EZ-Robot IoTiny
While Arduino and Raspberry Pi dominate, there are other boards out there for robot builders. One of the best for rapid robot development is IoTiny from EZ-Robot.
DJI/Ryze Tello Mini-Drone Review
DJI/Ryze Tello Mini-Drone is, as the name suggests, a new and tiny drone from the people who created my lovely DJI Mavic Pro. The important differences are, however, compelling:
Finally, Prusa Mk42 Heatbed for the Prusa Mk2/Mk2.5, and Pinda Sensor Clones!
The Prusa Mk2/Mk3 3d printers are renowned as top quality, but buying parts is a painfully expensive deal due to the long journey and single supplier. That just changed!
T8 CNC Kit Review
The T8 CNC is a desktop CNC kit built with aluminum extrusions, open source Arduino hardware, and GRBL software. If you were looking to learn CNC, perhaps this little $200 CNC mill could be a good …
Creality Ender 2 3D Printer Kit Review
Creality and the CR-10 reviews were everywhere in 2017. Only Prusa got better press from what I could see. Justifiably, I might add. The Creality Ender 2 kit is a cut-down CR-10. …
Creality CR-10 MINI Review
Creality CR-10 MINI 3D printer kit - as good to review as the other 3d printers in the CR-10 lineup? Let's find out in this review!
Cheap solution for WiFi dead spots – TP-Link PowerLine Ethernet Review
When I put together my brand new Virtual Reality PC I immediately encountered a problem. Wifi dead zone.
Kano Pixel Review
In my research for my maker kids kits series, I came across a new gadget from Kano, the makers of the famous Raspberry Pi computing kit. It looked interesting so I bought one. Here are my thoughts on …
Maker Kits for Making Maker Kids
It must be building up to gift-giving season because I have been asked a whole bunch of times for ideas for what parents should buy their kids to encourage their interest in making – …
Ultimaker 3 First Impressions Review
Ultimaker sent me an Ultimaker 3 for review, and to try out some projects on – exciting stuff (and from community reaction, I am not the only one who thinks so!). Since I posted my video I have …
Prusa i3 Mk2/Mk3 or Creality CR-10 – Which is the Best 3D Printer Under $1,000?
Prusa i3 Mk2/Mk3 and Creality CR-10 are the hot 3d printers right now under $1,000, but which should YOU choose?
Athorbot Buddy Couple Dual Extruder 3D Printer Review
Athorbot Buddy Couple Dual Extruder 3D Printer Review - In this article we cover the 3d printer build/assembly, some sample prints, how to get it running, and first Impressions after a week of use.
Creality CR-10 S5 Review
Creality CR-10 reviews are almost always about the regular sized 300mm x 300mm bed 3d printer (see my CR-10 review here) and reviews rarely talk about the big brother, the Creality CR-10 S5. I have …
BIQU Kossel Plus Delta 3D Printer Kit – First Impressions Review
BIQU Kossel Plus Delta 3D Printer Kit – it is not my first delta by any means, but it certainly stands out in some significant ways already. Here in this post I will share my first impressions, …
SilentStepStick clones and things to look out for.
SilentStepStick clones are often talked about in forums and groups as a great solution (and they can be!), but I just became aware of an issue that I wanted to warn everyone about …
Filament Review
A Canadian filament company sent me a couple of spools to review but I can no longer support them so all references to the company are removed.
Anet A8 Review – Budget ($200 or less!) 3D Printer Kit Review
The Anet A8 is a $200 (or less!) 3d printer kit. In this review we answer the question how good could a sub-$200 prusa i3 clone 3d printer kit actually be?
Creality CR-10 3d printer review – Large format, quality output, at a low price!
Creality CR-10 3d printer. A large format, budget, Chinese, almost pre-built machine for all your large model 3d printing needs. The name will either mean nothing to you, or you will have a mixture of …
Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless first boot issues
So there I am. Happy as a little boy on Christmas morning. I just got my Raspberry Pi Zero Wireless in the mail! WHOOT!!!! I’m about to start work on my dream bot that will cost hardly anything …
Best $300 3D Printers
$300 3D printers are apparently all that people are asking about in the Facebook groups so I thought I would write this up to stop having to repeat myself :) Word of warning, all of these printers …
TEVO Black Widow 3D Printer Kit Build and First Impressions Review
The TEVO Black Widow is a sub-$500 Chinese 370x250mm 3D printer kit. How good could it possibly be?