3D printing promises to be the gateway to a world where a person's ideas are literally made manifest. Draw it up on a computer, hit the print button and a short while later, there's what you just ...

Inventables has just announced a substantial Pro upgrade to its popular X-Carve line of CNC machines. Unlike 3D printing, which adds material to create a final object, CNC machines carve away material ...

When it comes to small CNC carving machines for hackerspaces and extremely well-equipped garages, the Shapeoko, or something like it, has been the default machine. It’s dead simple – a Dremel attached ...

3-D printing and rapid-prototyping have allowed makers to easily manufacture one-off products that once were predominantly factory-made–anything from guitar picks to shoes. But there’s still a ...

3D printers are very limited to the materials that they can use. Carvey takes a different approach. It's a desktop mounted, rapid-modelling, 3D carving device that can sculpt wood, plastic, and metal ...

Inventables, a West Loop-based seller of maker supplies, shipped the first of its newest desktop carving machines to Kickstarter backers Wednesday. The machine, called Carvey, is Inventables’ fourth ...

Zach Kaplan pushed the button on his first Kickstarter campaign at 8 a.m. Tuesday. Less than 90 minutes later, the Inventables CEO heard a cheer from outside his office. Carvey, Inventables’ desktop ...

Things are really shaping up in Mesa. The volunteer-run “hackerspace” HeatSync Labs, which operates as a communal gathering place for engineers, artists, and creators and the Valley, just received the ...

An interesting new 'maker' project launches on Kickstarter today. Inventables is seeking $50,000 backing for a project called 'Carvey', which is an easy to use desktop 3D carving machine. If you've ...