I definitely agree lol, that’s why I teach people how in the local library makerspace. We’ve a really nice Mitutoyo accurate down to 0.02mm!

From a big vernier caliper fan, this RULES!! 😍

This rules, can’t wait to see how federation works!! It seems like each project shows up in the fediverse as an actor? Like for example this project: @3dc33whtlsnx@3dprint.social

I kind of naively thought they’d show up as posts or something. Maybe what this means is, all the subcontent of the project show up as posts instead? If so, that seems pretty neat! Like potentially the 3d files themselves federate out as posts?

Not sure why I’m wildly speculating when all this is surely documented somewhere lol

Whoaa public instance! That’s AMAZING, will definitely be there! ❤

Does Manyfold support SVGs/etc? It seems awesome but it might be self-host only, not sure there are any public instances.

That’s definitely more how like laser cutters and cnc mills do it right? Although maybe that’s more for removing debris than cooling. Seems like a good idea, unless it’s too much pressure and starts deflecting the plastic while it’s still molten.

This project is awesome, great job! I get what you mean about the whole “quadruple the price and effort” thing, but stuff like this is so important. Whatever technology enables the current air filter industry to make their stuff so cheap is likely some proprietary BS that doesn’t even work at small scales anyway, right? So if/when we ever lose access to that, we’ll need stuff like this to fill the gap.

We use it very regularly in our makerspace, although yeah like you say, the supply and color availability is lacking unfortunately. Fingers crossed it gets better as more people show an interest in it

Ohh this probably makes more sense in places other than where I live. Nothing here gets recycled at all unfortunately… Were the larger objects unable to be recycled otherwise?

This doesn’t strike me as particularly sustainable at all? It just makes the object come apart into smaller objects, right? But they’re still objects and still made of the same material they would’ve been otherwise… Just switch to PHA, it’s actually for real compostable and more sustainably produced as well.

Wow what are the odds, I was JUST asked to fdm print a bunch of these by a patron! Might have to give this a go.

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Ooh neat!

Oh yeah, we have an old Shining3D scanner in our makerspace, and the amount of trouble that company has been…

Ooh that’s a great idea! Would this also be a good place to seek additional mods for not-quite-abandoned communities? I’ve been realllyyyy slacking on mine, life just gets in the way lol

WAAM printing has its limitations but i still feel like it’s probably the lowest barrier to entry as far as pure metal printing goes. That’s got to be doable for under $10K by now, right? If you janked it together yourself? Plus below that there’s still always lost PLA casting, or sintering composite metal/plastic filaments. Maybe I’m way off base though, who knows.

It doesn’t seem to be, or if it is, it’s in a very different way. A lot of other materials seem to get more brittle in humidity, but I haven’t noticed that with PHA.

We’ve tried every brand I can find, like Colorfabb AllPHA, Beyond Plastic BioPHA, and Bosk Regen. We usually order directly from them since it’s hard to find in a distributor, but we’re in the Northeast U.S.A., so it’d be really nice if anyone was making it around here.

That’s just if you’re having too much trouble with warping, which we generally don’t, and it doesn’t apply to perimeters or top layers, just bottom layers and infill. We’ve printed plenty of parts near solid with no issue at all. In addition, PHA is inherently more durable than PLA anyway.

Depends on how thick it is and what biome it degrades in, but in my compost it seems pretty comparable to wood?

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