As soon as I see a grid mat in a YouTube video I immediately feel 87% more optimistic about the creator’s skills and intention. I feel like I’m about to see some real shit.

Nice! Congrats and I hope you enjoy it!

I’m not the OP but I went ahead and bought his file and sliced* it and with 20% infill, it will require about 77g of filament. So with one normal spool, you could print 12 of them.

I can only vouch directly for the M5, but looking into the differences, it looks like the M5C would be a solid option. I would miss the onboard camera and the ability to check my prints and get notifications of suspicious issues, but the printer itself is more or less the same otherwise.

Edit: and with the current sale, $200 is a STEAL

• Slicing is the process where a program takes the 3D model and turns it into layer by layer instructions for the printer and where you configure lots of settings such as infill, which is how much of the interior of the model is printed with a lattice for structural support. Prints are rarely 100% solid material but rather a hull with infill.

I have an AnkerMake M5 and it’s gloriously painless. There are intrinsic unavoidable challenges to 3D printing, but this thing has been incredible for casual creation.

https://www.ankermake.com/

Chucken dunner

Neef Bachos

Thad Pai

Beese Churger

Suna Talad

Somato Toup

Peal Varmesan

Dotted Sp— never mind

It says, “The, Bart, the.”

I always thought they were adorable. They did a great job making recognizable vehicles all dinky.

Dumb car but funny idea.

Glad to know I’m not the only old-ass person here who thinks the same thing.

Every time I saw one of those I wanted to put a penny in the back to make it do a wheelie.

#justoldpeoplethings

Oh hey get fucked, bigot

Yup! Lost the house but I’m batting 1.000 for dishwasher problem solving.

My dishwasher started leaking so I lit it on fire.

Yep I’d heard about that. Man those were some Wild West days.

Oh no, I’m talking the NES game. It was a hateful thing.

I mean major kudos for getting past the god dam level reliably. I think I beat it once on an emulator.

Don’t worry, no one beat that game.

(Obviously now sixteen people will come in and tell me they beat the game but I will take this chance to mention that the PC port was literally unbeatable without cheating or modifying the game due to a mapping bug.)

“Why did you just put rice in your underwear, babe?”

“Oh, for fuck sake.”

I have an AnkerMake M5 and after having to fight with a Monoprice Select for years, the M5 is a revelation. It’s not cheap but it goes on sale pretty regularly, and it’s been stunningly reliable and consistent. I used to have to babysit the first few minutes of every print on the Monoprice but now I just fire off a print and come back later. It has automatic bed leveling, magnetic PEI bed plates, great repairability, and a decent app.

The “AI camera” aspect is so far a dud with too many false positives, but being able to stream the camera from the app and view a Timelapse to see how a print failed are nice features for a printer of this price.