The printer will be powered by the Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller board and is created in partnership with Sharebot, a 3D printing company also based in Italy.

Arduino may be known for revolutionizing open source hardware platforms, but this week enters the 3D printer market with the small and (relatively) affordable Materia 101. Produced in partnership with ...

Arduino, maker of the open source hardware platform of the same name, is teaming up with a startup called Sharebot to sell a 3D printer for about $1,000. Announced today, Materia 101 will be ...

If you are looking for a project to keep you busy for the next few weekends you may be interested in a handheld DIY railgun that has been created by YouTube user ‘Xtamared’. As you can see by the ...

In the end he had a working bootloader to which he appended the application firmware, but sadly when he powered up the printer there was still no joy.

Arduino Materia 101 is, instead, an almost foreseeable and completely expected merging of two of the hobbyist world's most popular toys: microcontrollers and 3D printing.

Open source hardware maker unveils Materia 101, a "precision 3D printer." Read the whole story ...