3d Printing and the Future of Piracy

it seems there is a mini game of filament management where you have to constantly keep it dry

so first 2 weeks w/ a 3d printer has been pretty set and forget, first things i printed were for the printer, a scraper, a poop chute, i bought dessicant and printed out spool holders for it. tried the vacuuming bags, 3/10 failed, i'll just do cereal storage.

decided to try my hand at cad (it's been since high school since i touched cad), decided right away i needed a 3d space mouse, saw i could print one out

i'm gonna wire it up tonight, there were other ones i was interested in that used hall effect switches, but this one had a more straight forward guide, i just wanted to get it up and running.

some organizational things like a under table keyboard drawer and stuff, really what i wanted it for, just to organize shit.

so far i've been tackling this

it's basically a nice clean way to store your folded tshirts, idk how many i've printed out, maybe 30? each one takes like 1hr 16 to print out, to try to cut down that time i got rapid pla filament, that only took out 3 minutes, and i put the machine on "ludicris" speed, that cut it down to 1:06, but it moves like it's possessed, my desk is literally moving away from the wall, i had to put weights at the feet to halt the poltergeisting.

my nephew asked me about doing warhammer minis but i'm pretty sure thats more for a resin printer

so i print in my den, sometimes i sleep there, that means i'll have a humidifier goin, and of course thats the opposite of what you want for the filaments, so far i've upgraded from a single spool dryer to a 4 spool dryer, it makes sense since mine is multicolor anyway and i guess it's just nice ams. i haven't done multicolor i don't care for it so far, but i do like that it will "autofeed when filament runs out".

it seems half the shit you print out, you print out for the fucking printer, i had to print out a grease tool, then all these tools need to go somewhere so i print out a side mounted tool holder, then i have to fix this issue where the fucking table is possessed when i put it on ludicris mode, so i printed out new feet and started to work w/ tpu. i couldn't get the tpu to print, was it a profile? was it not hot enough? turns out even if a spool comes in sealed w/ dessicant, it's still wet, i put the spool in the dry and 4hours later it fed fine. the tpu feet work somewhat, but i think i'm going to build a floating shelf for it. no idea how to build a shelf tho

Izo said:

What do yoi print, Soygen ? I've yet to get a 3d printer. Friend prints stuff for his kids, mask/guns, modelplanes etc.

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i'm still printing closet organizational stuff, wife has gone ham on clothing.

and in a day or 2 i'm just gonna print a boring ass blind addition,

i'm testing out honeycomb blinds in my room and i'm unhappy w/ the amount of light seeping thru, and just thought, i could probably print something, and theres someone who already thought the same thing


so what i've learned is that the 3d printer, (after you fawn over it for a few days printing out gobs of stuff) is that it's good to have for what you can print, rather than what you want to print.

like a week ago, i was reeling out my hose, and it sputtered and broke, rather than buying a new reel, i thought, someone must have had this happened to them too? and yup, i just printed out a replacement part.