3D Printing is for more than making brightly colored plastic pieces of crap

Re:3D Printing is for more than making brightly colored plas... by jdietrich on Tuesday December 22, 2015 @02:08AM (#10776321)

This sort of comment is exactly why I rag on 3D printing. A 3D printer isn't a magical tchotchke machine, it's a shop tool. You need knowledge and skill to design a part and successfully print it.

You can learn an awful lot of practical making skills in the time it takes to get to the 3D printing equivalent of "hello world".

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Re:3D Printing is for more than making brightly colored plas... by njharman on Thursday December 24, 2015 @10:26AM (#10788429)

Same was true back when computers were programmed with toggle switches. I'm glad early engineers stuck with them instead of just going back to slide-rules, logarithm books, and doing it by hand.

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