About a decade ago, the only way the average hacker was getting their hands on a desktop 3D printer ... a kit. Even then, to keep costs down, many of these kits were made out of laser cut wood.

Don Morris an Aviation Technologies Professor at Southern Illinois University has created a range of intricate laser cut engine kits with fully ... “The first model I would like to introduce ...

But once injection molded plastics caught on, wood and tissue model kits ... recreates the look of those early model kits but substitutes 3D printed or laser cut components for the fragile balsa ...