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Member Introductions
Welcome to 3D Print Board. Please introduce yourself here. Let us know what types of printer you have (if any), and what you interest is in 3D printing.
My name is Eddie. I am an avid 3D printing nerd! I truly believe that 3D printing is the future. It is an industry that is about to explode. I am 31 years old and live in Southwest Florida.
Ed
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Name: Jake
Age: 24
3D printing experience: I've only seen it down by a few friends, but I have not yet purchased a printer myself.
I really am looking to get into 3D design because I see this whole 3D printing thing really taking off soon!
Jake
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Name: Mark
Age: Baby Boomer
I like messing around with new technologies for making things. I built a CNC router, and now have a Maker Farm 8" Prussa i3 printer.
I'm also a bit of a tech writer.
My screen name is Old Man Emu, (OME for short), which clearly tells you that I'm an Australian.
OME
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hi, name is jim, 39 years. just started with 3d modeling and 3d printing a few months ago. i am running a makergear m2 and do most of my designs in rhino3d.
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Name: Daniel S.
Age: 17
I've been working around a Replicator 2 for over a year and a half now, and starting this year a Replicator 2X. Most of my designs come out of either Sculptris or Tinkercad.
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Hi,
My name is Lukas.
I've sketched and drawn physical gadgets since I can think of.
Somewhere along my way in English education (I'am an Austrian) I guess I was around 17, I got to read an article about
absolutely beautiful nano-machines of this kind:
http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/visuals.html
http://www.imm.org/research/parts/
If you ask what that has to do with 3D printing then please be patient.
I didn't even know of the existence of 3D Printing at that time.
I guess I first learned of the existence of 3D printing around the time shapeways popped up.
I immediately knew I had to try it out and started 3D printing with this dutch 3D printing service.
After I've tried all the major materials which where available back then
I found it to be rather expensive and thus only usable for jewelery and only a vew other things.
This brought me to the decision that I finally want to buy my own personal 3D printer kit.
At that time I was fortunate to be late enough that the the Ultimaker was already in pre-order state.
Since I own it I put it to good use as you can see here.
http://www.thingiverse.com/mechadense/designs
But thats not the end of the story.
Remember those "Diamondoid Molecular Machine Elements" I've mentioned before.
Completely unrecognized by the general public (at least in my part of the world)
atomically precise nanotechnology is slowly but certainly progressing to a state
where atomically precise printers (for non metallic elements) become possible.
A recent example of the progress can be found here: http://wyss.harvard.edu/viewpressrelease/101/
Further stages will quickly switch to crystalline carbon and silicon as building materials.
Don't be mistaken - atomically 3D printing devices will not evolve from current day 3D printers but come from labs that combine
bottom up and top down nanotechnology.
Even though they'll emerge from rater secretive parts of the technological development (if sensibly designed) atomically precise 3D printers (in the second or third generation) will share the open spirit in that they will be copyable with just a bit of welding gas as the only necessary resource. Later just sun and CO2 may suffice. Those printers will come in all sizes (think key-chain pendant) and spread over the whole world in no time.
Every one of those key-chain-pendants will be a seed - capable of rebuilding the whole word even after a 3rd WW (not judging it's probability here)
Just to remind you that those won't be almighty wonder-machines: Food will not be printable this way as you will find if you decide to look further into the details.
By the time this technology will arrive we'll already will have a quite vast library of all sorts of stuff.
But beside Macro-products the nano-machine-elements must be designed too.
Here I've written a tutorial about how to convert designs for future nano-machines to
something that can be printed for presentation as a model with current day 3D printers.
http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:13786/#instructions
In our future the whole world around us will be programmed and often packaged with it's code.
Today I do mainly use OpenSCAD since for me its the most easy to use and practical software there is at the moment.
But for diverse reasons I'd rather like to see some cross of those two:
https://github.com/colah/ImplicitCAD (plus quick preview)
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mole.../NanoEngineer/
I plan to publish some thoughts of mine about atomically precise 3D printing here:
http://scriptogr.am/mechadense
Some literature about atomically precise manufacturing - If you're interested:
http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Abunda.../dp/1610391136
http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/Nanosystems/toc.html
So in summary what establishes my interest for 3D printing are my need to get those gadgets out of my head and my motivation to showcase detailed concepts for components of future atomically precise (AP) systems. If you've not already known about AP printers it I hope I could spawn your interest.
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I like "old man emu's' reply baby boomer, HA ! Myself, I'm so old, I can remember when the dead sea was just getting sick. HA ! Bradley C. Fudge, little tiny hole in New Mexico, nobody, nothing around, might as well print something.
I was a tool and die maker for what seemed like forever, I have worked in most every aspect of manufacturing, including manufacturing guns, model making, props for movies, lost wax casting, etc., etc.,.......then I became disabled. Now I get so bored I have to find something to do, so I tinker, I like to tinker where nobody else has gone, or at least not much is known. That becomes expensive. I have always had expensive tastes. So even though my company looks like a for profit company, it seldom actually makes any. I'm not complaining, I wouldn't know what to do if I wasn't messing with this stuff.
There is a LOT of room for advancement, I can see so many things that can be done, with very little expense. It would be very easy to print directly from pellets, a person could make a machine with quick change tool heads, so you could have multi color/material, switch to engraver, switch to wax cutting mill, switch to PCB drill, etc. It is not practical to use a printer to cut metal though, the rigidity needed is too high.
So as Eddie says, 3D printing is the future.
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My name is Matt, I'm currently 24 (nearly 25, within 2 months haha). I'm in my fourth year of a dual major in Mechanical/Heavy Industrial Engineering, and Human Resource Management. I do both modelling and printing, my modelling skills at the moment are fairly limited to what programs like Inventor are capable of, but I am trying to teach myself how to use programs like Milkshape, Maya, 3DS etc, in order to further bolster my training and abilities/usefulness.
As for a printer, I'm only reasonably new to 3D printing - I've wanted one for years and years, ever since I did an on-site experience with an engineering course in high school, when the tech was moderately rudimentary at best! I only just bought myself a Replicator 2 recently, and have been teaching myself Blender in order to clean up models for 3d printing and export them to print ready formats!
I'm a long time Eve Online player as well, which is where my decision to buy the printer actually came from - I wanted to develop my own tabletop version of the game to play with friends, and to make a one-off Eve version of Monopoly for home!
I see a big future in 3D printing, and getting the knowledge these past few months I have has definitely greatly benefited me, I've learnt an immense amount as it is!
I'm based in Australia too, in South-East Queensland. I would definitely be open to any group meetups and such!
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Hello, I'm Dave, and I've been around since mini-computers were as big as refrigerators and had to be booted up (I am not kidding) by setting address/data switches on the front panel so that the computer would know where to start executing. It was old technology at the time, but they were still in use where I was going to school. I'm still in the same industry, but now it's Java realtime and quad core processors, instead of wire-wrapped backplanes and magnetic core memory.
I have a Makergear M2 printer for practical reasons and for play. On the software front, I've been using Simplify3D Creator and Repetier-Host/Slic3r for model prep, slicing and g-code creation, and a number of modeling tools and utilities depending on what i'm doing (FreeCAD, Blender, OpenSCAD, MeshMixer).
I remember (geezer alert) when the music industry came down hard on some private citizens who were trading music online. Not making money with it but, according to the industry, taking money away from them through lost sales. I wonder when manufacturing companies will do the same with 3D printer file trading. I do think at some point examples will be made of people based on copyright infringement and/or theft of intellectual property. For example, one of the more practical items I've made is a LiPo battery tray for an electric helicopter. The manufacturer charges $20 for two of them. My knock-off, using measurements directly from the stock part, cost me 92 cents in plastic. About 25 grams. I thought about publishing the STL on Thingiverse then decided not to because I didn't know what the legal issues were, given that I made my part from measurements of a commercial product. Really unlikely that the company would decide to make me a legal test case, but it's going to happen at some point, to someone. So I decided I'd publish things of my own design, but not anything I reverse engineered or outright copied for my own use.
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Mark
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Northern Indiana
been around 3d printers for a few years, started with A Seemecnc H-1, then Rostock MAX and the latest is the ORION also from seemecnc.com.
Seemecnc guys are part of our makers group and they are located about 5 minutes from my house so its nice to have Steve and John at my finger tips. My Brother owns Tricklaser.com that makes aftermarket parts for the Rostock Max and Orion printers, along with other printer accesories.
Our maker Group along with seemecnc.com will be hosting the second annual http://midwestreprapfest.org/ March 14 15 16 - 2014 excited to have Josef Prusa (Prusa Mendel/i3 and more) and MaxBots (Mendel MAX dev), , Logxen (Smoothieboard Dev) and many more again this year along with build events from seemecnc and others.
I am currently working on a rotational machine that can reproduce hollow plastic parts from molds, either printed molds or silicon molds taken from a printed part.
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Hello from Northern Indiana
My name is Delmar. I work at a day program with adults with disabilities.I run the computer lab, teaching rudimentary computer skills to the people we serve. This year the agency I work for got a CNC router for our wood shop and are in the process of obtaining a 3D printer for my classroom. I have been given the task of learning how to run the 3D printer to help the people our agency serves work on craft projects and things like that.This week I have been training on the CNC router to get my feet wet as we wait for the #D printer to arrive.My personal goal is to use this equipment after hours to build my own CNC router and perhaps my own 3D printer.
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Greetings from New England. Larry is the name and I am helping a buddy get some larger 3D systems up and running. Starting off with some existing meter by meter XY platforms and then adding a 2 meter plus ball screw for Z. EE by degree, Engineering Tech by current employment, have access to a ME and 3d printer at work.
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Hello From Belgium :-)
I'm a 40-years old IT professional (former software developer, now IT busines analyst/project manager) with a passion for model railroading / electronics / mechanics / 3D printing / travelling ...
I have a 50W CO2 CNC laser at home, a portal cnc milling machine (elektor colinbus profiler - mainly used for PCB milling), a large cnc milling machine (HBM BF-25 - for the "tougher" work with metal/aluminium) and a lathe (HBM 250x550) and 2x 3D printers.
(3D scanning is done with an xbox Kinect and Skanect Pro software)
I started with a Velleman K8200 back in april 2014 (I got it as a birthday present from my wife), and have come a long way since ... I made lots and lots of upgrades and improvements for this machine, to get some "quality" parts printed :-)
Next, I printed all parts for an Ecksbot 3D printer (also with lots of modifications, because I was not quiet satisfied with the default design, luckely you can download the Solidworks files ... and I'm "experienced" in Solidworks ...)
Currently, I'm designing a 3D printer from scratch (in Solidworks), with a build-volume of 60x60x60 cm and dual-head (maybe I upgrade to a kraken 4-head later). (I need this build-volume for some upcomming hobby projects)
I'm also a modelrailroad enthousiast. I have an H0 layout (about 40 square meters), my wife does have an LGB layout in the garden, and we also have 3 1/2", 5" and 7 1/4" live-steam locomotives ... (thats where the lathe and CNC milling comes in handy)
Furthermore I'm also "into" electronics, so I create my own PCBs, electronics for my modelrailroad layout and home automation etc ...
I'm one lucky guy, since my wife is also "into" computers and trains :-) (I met her at a computer-club, where we both did some teaching, the LGB garden railroad is hers, not mine ... Furthermore she also knows how to "create" things in Solidworks, and she also uses the 3D printers sometimes to print juwelery)
If you want to know more about all my crazy projects, you can always have a look at my blog at http://www.digitalplayground.be
(you can find pictures/videos of my 3D printed hexapod, 3D printed "me and my wife", a robotic-arm/ball clock I'm currently working on and much more ...)
best regards,
Kris
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Hithere. New to the forum and to 3D printing. I recently purchased a Makerfarm 10" i3v and it is due to arrive next week. I have a couple kids that are eagerly awaiting the arrival as if it were a new brother/sister and a wife that is pretty much assuming I'll be spending all my time in the garage with my electromechanical girlfriend and not her.
So far I've been reading through the forum, Practical 3D Printers, and Mastering 3D Printing.
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Name: Geoff
Age: Star Wars Episode IV
I have been pulling computers apart since I got one for christmas when I was about 5 (to my parents horror.. but to my credit I did get it back together and working..) I just like anything electronic with flashy blue lights, it has to have flashy blue lights.
Anyway, I'm Australian, married, 2 kids, currently back working full time as a technician for Xerox , so between work and home, my life is literally printers, printers and more printers!! :p
I've been diddling with graphic design since we had CGA monitors.. (Hercules monitors were a bit limited.... ) so I've gone through a few different phases with graphics and modelling and am pretty happy with the tools that have evolved and let us do the cool things we can do today.
3D printing has sort of taken over my life, what started a few years ago as a small "OMG I have to get one of those!!!" has turned into a " OK - you have too many printers now, time to build a workshop" which is about 60 percent complete I am happy to say. I started from scratch, concrete slab (4x6 metres) new colourbond shed, insulation etc.. 9 double GPO's ... I hope to make some pretty special things in there with my printers all being able to be set up and running at the same time.
I like playing guitar, flying quadcopters into trees, watching terrible sci fi movies, and most importantly, I'm a cat person.
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Jordon
28
Ever since my friend introduced me to 3D Printing, I had been captivated by its wonders that is why I've been trying to design a little project of mine. Why I came here to the forum is to gather as much knowledge on 3D printing. :)
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Hi Everyone.
I am Ruben Moss, I am 31, and I live in Pretoria South Africa.
I've had my Prusa i3 for about a year now and I'm having a lot of fun with it. I have made a few upgrades to it, with it. (which to me is the coolest part about 3d printing).
I modified the x carriage to be able to swap the extruder for a pen holder, effectively turning my printer into a plotter. My next project is to add an attachment for a router, I want to be able to mill PCBs as well.
Ultimately I want one machine with which I can take my projects from concept to prototype.
If anyone here is doing the same, please contact me, I would like to know how others are fairing.
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Hello, I am Ander, 21 years old, from Spain
I recently got my Flashforge Creator Pro, and my intention is to print mostly miniatures for board games, but also i'm interested in the cosplay world.
I have studied Industrial Design Engineering and i use Solidworks for my models, but i also work whith NX and Rhino, and i'm tring to learn how to use Zbrush.
i hope i can help anyone in this forum and i hope you guys can help me ;)
I would like to say sorry from the start becauso of my english, i will try but im sure that i will make a lot o f gramatical mistakes
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Hello everybody,
my name is Marco, and I live in Italy.
I am very new to 3D printing, but just bought a QIDI Tech.
Hoping I will learn a lot on this forum :-)
Have a nice day!
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Hi there...
I'm Tom from London, and I'm the resident content guy at RP Platform. I'm still relatively new to the world of 3D printing, but really enjoying exploring it in depth and seeing some of the cool projects and research taking place at the moment. My particular interest is the workflows and processes that go along with 3D printing, and how we can help move it from a purely prototyping tool to a viable production one.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone is working on at the moment!
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Hello my name is DUYTAP
My English is not good :/ But I really like 3D Technology. I saw this great forum on Google search, when looking for some new 3Dprinter models
This time, I open a 3DPRINTING Shop in Việt Nam , its name is 3DPLUS : https://in3dplus.com/
Im using the I4 Transformer 3DPRINER, like that video:
https://youtu.be/ILfa7qL7xpU
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Hello Everyone,
I'm Matt from Rhode Island and have been using 3D printers for two years or so. I got my work to buy a Sindoh DP200 to do some rapid prototyping of tooling, fixtures, mold designs, and a few other things. At home I've got a cheap I3 knockoff from Gearbest (Tronxy P802). I've been doing drafting and solid modeling for almost 20 years, so being able to bring designs into reality with the push of a button has been amazing. I've already picked up a few new things while lurking around, so I look forward to learning even more from the people here. Thanks in advance,
Matt
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Hello to you all.
my name is Morpheus, i am from Holland.
please excuse me for my poor english.
i am all new to the 3d printing world.
at first, i had a XYZ DV1.0 3d-printer. very easy to operate, even for me. but due to their brand filament restrictions, and less variety of coulours available, i decided to buy another printer.
recently i bought a Flashforge Creator Pro. (2016)
i had a hard time figuring it all out, but slowly, i'm learning to know the machine.
i took a few looks around at the forum, all looks great.
i'm hoping to learn more, and i have a lot of questions:confused: for you guys.
happy printing!
from Holland, Cheers!
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Hi,
I've had a MakerGear M2 since 2015 but was too busy with going to school to learn how to operate it. Now that I'm done with school for now I'd like to get my machine working as I dreamed it would work. I've done a lot of trial and error but if there is one thing in life that I learned... it is that joining a forum makes me learn a lot better than fudging around on my own trying to reinvent the wheel.
I'm just a dreamer. That's why I own a 3D printer. And that's also why it doesn't really work! Because I spend more time dreaming than doing.
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Hello,
I have no experience with 3d printers but think that the possible applications sound awesome.
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Hello,
A new member here from Jakarta. The reason why I join this 3d printer forum is because I want to expand my knowledge on this matter. I was so mesmerized of what 3d printers can do for a better world, like for medicine and manufacturing industry. I believe 3d printing is the future. Hopefully I can contribute something useful and learn something new here.
Cheers.
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Hi. This is Allen and I have been 3D printing maybe a year. Have three of them, an Original Prusa i3 MK2S, a Forgeforce Dreamer, and a Prusa clone. I like them all, but they all have good and bad points. None yet have been ideal. I'm still looking for the ideal printer. Hopefully one with auto z-height which NONE of these printers have. Also a completely removable, changeable bed. After LOTS of work, I have this on the Dreamer, but its not perfect.
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Grüß Gott!
Hello everyone!,
I am three times retired: Food industry - 12, Tool & Die Maker - 18, Programmer - 16 yrs.
In my shop I have CNC and many tools/machines.
In my home office I have BCN3D Sigma R17 3D Printer.
Design & Printer Software include: Netfabb 7.4, 123D, 3DS MAX '14, ACAD '14, Fusion 360, ZBrush, Cura 1.0.3, Netfabb 2018 u. Simplify3D.
File interchange are my biggest headaches daily.
Currently building a hepa filter u. humidity & temperature controlled sound tight Lexan enclosure on the printer.
Next project is a Temperature and Humidity controlled free standing Lexan cabinet to shelve all of my filaments against the common moisture here in Germany.
I am a tweaker: In the best use of the word, I need to improve everything all of the time, even when it doesn't.
(In my long past youth it was a very different use of the word. Part of my personal story.)
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Hi everyone!
My name Vedran and people call me by my nickname Wekster because it's easier to pronounce it :)
I started 3d printing last year and I have Prusa i3 clone and Creality CR-10. Mostly I'm printing movie props and my own experiments.
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Hey, this is my first post here! Name is Bill Ryder. I'm a 46 year old, 20 year software engineering veteran with a very specific goal in mind with regard to 3d printing. The only research I've done so far is to compare various available sub $500 3d printers.
Ultimately I want to play with creating my own filament from HDPE. I had a "Logic" brand boat which was made from HDPE as are many canoes and kayaks, which I could repair by welding with salvaged milk jugs. This led me to think about saving the world by recycling HDPE. I have also looked into some extruders/makers, mostly DIY, online. And my thought is, with perfected 3d printing with HDPE, this would be a great avenue to re-use of discarded HDPE plastic items.
But step one at this point is to be able to do anything I need to start with learning about 3d printing. Would be very appreciative of best advice balancing low cost with ease of getting to the point of printing with HDPE filament. Based on research I'm thinking the the Di Vinci 1.0 Pro is the absolutely quickest path to printing with a decent probability of success with HDPE. Heated base. Variable extruder temps that can handle ABS (which I'm to understand in the in the temp range for HDPE). $349. Comes with software. Auto setup of just about everything possible.
Does that sound like I'm on the right track? Should I consider something else? For example, can I get significantly cheaper with a RepRap based kit, with less hassle and headache than I think? And/Or, are there other options I should consider that I don't even know about?
I look forward to contributing my experiences and finding on this forum over time. Any initial advice sincerely appreciated. Thanks for taking the time to read this!!
-Bill
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Hello all, as a part of our introduction to the community, we want to give away some free white PLA from Industrial 3D Printing. We are a new startup company and have spent countless hours with our manufacturer to create the best PLA product available. High quality printing material with a lot of strength.
In order to receive a free PLA spool, you must buy one from Amazon.com and leave us a review, that's it! Once you've left a review, please send a screen shot to info@naturale.ca (our Amazon partner) along with your address and we will have a second spool of PLA sent to you. Currently only available for USA residents.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078FQ1H4T
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Newb
Hello, fellow 3D Printers.
Harold Richard (Just Harry)
60 plus, Years Young
Yank, from, Southern California.
For me, 3D printing becomes a tool for my real Hobby, RC Sailboat Racing (AMYA). I would much rather experiment around and make my own boat hardware, since I am already designing my own boats. In fact I have 12 designs sitting in the Cloud waiting patiently for me to bring them to life. Just finished a sturdy work Table for my new baby and now setting up the CR-10 S5.
Cheers,
Just Harry
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Hi all,
This is Keira Tayor, an academic tutor, blogger and writer.
Glad to join this community.
Cheers,
Keira
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Hello. Nikita here.
I'm a 27 y/o electronics engineer with a passion for robotics. Once upon a time I frequented a 3D printing club at our uni, where we built (crappy) 3d printers and learned what not to do in the process :)
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HI Guys,
New to 3d Printing with an FF Dreamer and a lot to learn
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Hey, new here obviously. have a monoprice and looking to get into the hobby
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Name:James
using a copymaster 400 for hobby robotics and costume making. joined to hopefully find a way to finally get petg correct after years of 3d printing