Asklemmy

43853 readers

1145 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
[email protected]: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What's the most expensive thing you've come to own that you've never gotten to fully use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

99 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

3d printer

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As someone who has been in the 3d printing space for awhile, I am amazed at how cheap and featured the entry level printers are. For ~$150 you can get a printer with auto bed leveling and a magnetic bed. At $15/lb of filament, you only need a few projects to pay for itself.

For example, I printed the housing for a USB hub for a friend which is a clone for a ridiculously expensive one that fits Lovesac couches and he paid me $50. It cost ~$2 of filament and ended up printing a few more for others. That alone paid for the cost of the printer.

For anyone who is thinking about it, now is a great time to enter the hobby.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which cad software do you use? I've been jumping from blender, openscad, and freecad

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Depending on the complexity of the part either Fusion 360, Tinkercad, or even just 3d Builder. I usually can find something close already existing and just modify that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Get to it! Such a fun hobby

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

I have promised it to my brother as its a resin printer and he paints warhammer

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

not much use. mostly to rarely print a few bits and pieces when i need a repair or something very specific for a project.