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3D Printing | |
September 01st, 2018 | |
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I bought a 3D printer. It's a FlashForge Finder, available on | |
Amazon for somewhere in the $300-350USD range at present. It | |
prints PLA but not ABS, has a decent sized print area, comes fully | |
assembled, and has fair community support. The service that | |
FlashForge offers is extremely responsive and helpful. Overall I'm | |
quite pleased with the purchase. | |
Since Tuesday I've been printing things almost non-stop. I've made | |
an external spool holder to support bigger filament spools than | |
the printer can handle normally. I've got a tool holder caddy on | |
the box as well. I've made an Arduino Uno bumper/baseplate, a few | |
toys for my son including squishy turtles and a fully articulated | |
snail with shell that opens. As I'm writing this a book holder | |
just finished. | |
I'll be making some desk accessories soon, and then I think I'll | |
take my first stab at designing my own piece by modifying the | |
hanging tool-holder to make a glue-stick holder of the same style. | |
3D printing is pretty fantastic. It's really easy, way faster than | |
I expected, and the quality of this personally affordable model is | |
suprisingly good. I can make real things! | |
Oh, I made a few rings for my wife. She's allergic to metal, so | |
this is perfect. I've sanded them down and I'm priming them now. | |
Later today I'll paint and seal them for her. Isn't that exciting? | |
I can design her jewelry, print it, post-process, and she can wear | |
it all in the same day. That's some agrestic shit right there [0]. | |
[0] Agrestic |