In this video, Joel Telling, the 3D Printing Nerd, prints a repair part for a Playmobil trainset, part of an annual holiday ...

NEW YORK — 3D printing was still decades away when Mattel debuted ThingMaker in the 1960s. As a primitive “at-home maker device,” it let kids produce bug-like Creepy Crawlers, mini-dragons, flowers ...

The designers of the Free Art and Technology collective have come up with a set of nearly 80 free 3D models for adapter bricks to connect pieces from several popular construction toys, enabling anyone ...

Sometimes a particular piece of plastic is just what you need. You have lost the battery cover to your cell phone, perhaps. Or your daughter needs to have the golden princess doll she saw on TV. Now.

Remember ThingMaker? Mattel’s $300 3D printer that would let kids print out their own toys? Its ship date – which was supposed to be this month – just got pushed back another year, according to a ...

Did you know that originally Mr. Potato Head was just a box full of random body parts that kids were supposed to jab into actual potatoes? It sounds like a crazy idea, but Mr. Potato Head went on to ...

iRobot, the makers of Roomba, have filed a patent for a 3D printer that produces completely finished products without the need for humans to assemble or finish off the object. The patent, discovered ...

If you’re a parent, you know the challenges of trying to keep your children entertained. With the Toybox 3D Printer Deluxe Bundle, they’ll never get bored because this nifty machine can make something ...

It’s easy to assume that traditional kid’s toys are taking a beating due to the sky-high popularity of tablets and smartphones among the younger generation. But toy-maker Mattel is attempting to ...

At New York’s Toy Fair trade show over the weekend, Mattel unveiled its new, $300 3D Printer, the “ThingMaker,” which will allow children to print their own toys at home. The device works in ...

You may have heard about 3-D printing, a technological phenomenon that uses a robotic arm to build objects one layer at a time. As people get imaginative and create items in a one-stop-shop fashion, ...