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Over the past five years, 3D printers have gone from expensive industrial equipment to hobbyist tools that can be had for as little as a few hundred dollars. 3D printing has captured the attention of schools, designers, and companies like UPS, which began offering printing service in its stores last August. And between the Stratasys-owned MakerBot and enthusiasts with homemade RepRap printers, dozens of small teams — several of which were at CES 2014’s 3D Printer Tech Zone — are racing to be the ones who take the technology mainstream. These companies’ entry-level printers have different names, different designs, and different price points, but they all share an audience: interested consumers who have relatively little technical knowledge and don’t want to take the jump on a rig that costs several thousand dollars.