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what's new in 3D printing?

@norvid-studies.bsky.social

They got *a lot* faster and much more reliable. I bought a prusa mk4s from a friend second-hand last year and had to do a grand total of zero maintenance since. The print beds are much nicer than what we had years ago, can just do all my materials on same sheet. It's acting as an appliance for me.

20/5/26, 11:18 pm0 reposts2 likes

norvid_studies

what sort of use cases are there, like top 3 or 4 areas? (I'm very out of the loop)

(was replying elsewhere bsky.app/profile/did:...) As I have more characters now: Others do many other things too, but this is what I'm into using it for, and being able to treat it as an appliance and not a project, and having it just work after I turn it on after a month is really nice for that.

ave@ave.zone

I'm using it for functional parts primarily. Parts for attaching things (e.g. on an IKEA Skadis pegboard), enclosures for projects, replacements for lost parts, stands for devices. Printed a bunch of tiny screen edge protectors for the pebble time 2 yesterday as reportedly the glass is fragile.

to give an idea of what some others do in more creative ways than I on the functional parts domain, there's a youtuber i like, they make videos of mini 4WDs and often make 3d printed parts for trying out new ideas with them. youtu.be/h8oE0Ti85UI youtu.be/0HbfuueN1ho etc