Nearly a year ago, we caught wind of a competition to create a home-based filament manufacturing station that takes cheap plastic pellets available for about $5/kg and turns them in to 3D printer ...

Now you’ve got a half-decent 3D printer for $150 ... Toss in the price of a kilogram of cheap PLA filament as well, because you’re going to need to calibrate the printer and make parts ...

We got a chance to see the Creality Hi Combo on display at the company's CES 2025 booth and we're impressed with its build ...

We assess their filament types, ease (or difficulty ... What separates more expensive 3D printers from cheap ones ("cheap" defined as $500 or less, for the purposes of this article) is often ...

Three were built by his company to produce affordable PLA and PETG ... even to 1.8mm in diameter can jam your 3D printer ...