[SML] 3D printing

[Dave Vick]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2025 at 10:52 AM Jon Ares via Stagecraft <
stagecraft at theatrical.net> wrote:

 Today's major players make them so much better and faster
> than those build-it-yourself Erector Set printers of a few years ago.


Hey! I built one of those erector set printers (a kit from SeeMeCNC)
eight-or-so years ago while recovering from knee surgery and it gave me two
BIG advantages:

1.) I learned a LOT about how a 3D printer works at machine-language level
...and...
2.) I got what amounted to a $3,500 printer with a 10"x10"x16" print volume
for about a grand.

Also it was genuinely fun to build the thing and a huge Ego Stroke to
successfully print from something I built from a pile of parts, but then
I've always freely admitted to being a Nerd.

That being said, if I did it all over again I'd be strongly tempted to go
the Bambu Labs route.

YM, as always, MV...
-DV

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