The Rhino Smart extruder is equipped with a number of useful features such as jam detection and the ability to pause printing if your filament should run out or encounter a problem during a 3D print.

Seattle-based biotech startup Pembient wants to lower the market value of rhino horns by flooding the market with 3D printed replicas.

Pembient, one of a handful of biotech firms around the world that are working on synthetic imitations of rhino horns, has said its product will be ready in two years.

Rhino poaching is pushing the species to the brink of extinction (Image: Pete Oxford/Minden Pictures/Corbis) Can 3D printing save the rhino? Seattle-based bioengineering start-up Pembient ...

[siemenc] shows us how to use Grasshopper – a visual node-based programming system for Rhino 3D – to output G-code that makes some interesting patterns and shapes in wood when fed to a ShopBot.