Mere years ago, 3D printers and carving machines were largely seen as prototyping tools and fun distractions for hobbyists in the maker movement. Now, these technologies are entering the manufacturing ...

One stated goal of Chicago-based Inventables, which makes desktop CNC machines and related supplies and equipment, is to democratize 3D carving. It’s a lofty ambition, but the company has the support ...

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 ...

The Academy at Palumbo, a public high school in Graduate Hospital, won a 3D carving machine to outfit its new makerspace. The Academy at Palumbo won a 3D carving machine, also known as CNC milling, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Carvey a new 3D carving machine that has launched over on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website this week, and in just 48 hours blasted past its $50,000 pledge goal, raising more than $240,000 in just ...

In this video, I practice some woodworking skills and build a custom board for the game Legendary on the Inventables X-Carve 3D Carving machine. This project was also made as an entry in the Game ...

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 ...

Expensive laser cutters have a 3D engraving mode that varies the laser power as it is etching a design, to create a 3D effect. [Benjamin Alderson] figured this could be replicated on a cheap Chinese ...