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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • About 15 years ago I looked at 3d printers for an engineering team. Between $20,000 and $50,000 range. The best option was a powder based system. Parts were fragile, print time was slow, clean up was a pain.

    One of our customers was using an SLA system…parts were fragile, print time was slow…clean up was a pain.

    Now I have a 3d filament printer in my shop that cost me less than $1,000, and doesn’t have any of those issues. Of course it’s not mounted on a robotic arm.






  • Imagine a federated Reddit with extremely lax (or no) moderation, and files. Access to a Usenet server gives you access to an almost unlimited number of communities discussing almost any topic you can think of, some topics you’ve never heard of, some topics you don’t want to be involved with, and (depending on which server you subscribe to) downloadable files.

    I haven’t used one in years, so I have no idea how accurate the previous paragraph still is.