It's not quite like knitting sweaters for penguins, but a new conservation project relies on similar crowd-sourced crafting to save another kind of sea creature. MakerBot Industries, a 3-D printer ...

Project Shellter has some quasi-scientific goals, as well–since hermit crabs are known to co-opt everything from bottlecaps to shotgun shells, creator Miles Lightwood (who initiated the project as an ...

If you've ever bought a pet hermit crab, then you may remember also having to buy several sea shells with it. This is because the crabs don't have shells of their own, and instead have to find empty ...

We’re big fans of the home 3D printer here. It’s a truly disruptive technology, though for now the cost is still a bit too high, and the uses aren’t quite practical enough, for it to be a household ...

The fine folks at MakerBot have impressed us enough with their Mario-themed RC racers and self-replicating 3D printers, but now the collective is looking to save mother nature with Project Shellter.

Prefabricated homes have really evolved over the years, to the point where they really do come in all shapes and sizes. 3D printing has been of immense benefit in this regard, with the world’s first ...