The winner, [Hugh Lyman] just won $40,000 for his home filament creation station, the Lyman Filament Extruder The goal of the Desktop Factory Competition was to create a machine that produces ...

In Germany, about 5.6 million tons of plastic packaging are thrown away every year after just one use. Sadly, less than a third of this plastic is recycled. Now, scientists from Hochschule Bremen – ...

The video below shows the machine in action and the complicated screw profiles it’s capable of producing. We’ve seen lots of homebrew plastic extruders before, most of which use repurposed ...