You may not realize it until you've listened to one for 19 hours straight, but a 3D printer can be noisy. Much like the dot matrix printers of old, 3D printers have mechanisms that move, squeak, ...

Master of none, and all that.

Quiet printers are specifically designed to reduce operational noise, providing a smoother and less intrusive user experience. In shared or compact spaces, a noisy device can disrupt productivity, ...

Graduate student Sujit Rokka Chhetri with the 3-D printer used in the test. As it moves, the device makes unique sounds that a computer algorithm can recognize and translate into usable code. Graduate ...