>>108269685
I wish I have one. I'm tired of inhaling PVC fumes to bend them straight.

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>>108269685
It still is

>>108269685
outdone by AI as the "new cool thing"

There is no usecase

>>108269685
Because the 3D print something you either need to design something yourself (an average person cannot do that) or you need to download something that was already designed (that is nowhere near as interesting, you can already buy physical things that were designed by someone).

>>108269735
the whole community of gun printers is purely for the show, they only print lower receivers and then buy all the other components off the shelf because apparently the US law doesn't treat other parts of the firearm as needed to be controlled
A lot of talk about how it can't be stopped, but I bet if the us congress simply passed a law that made printing guns illegal, 3/4 of the community would instantly abandon it all because they're not going to prison for a hobby or something
Doesn't apply to the picrel, but still

>>108269771
This is all I use mine for. i spin it up every 6 months or so and print something I badly designed in tinkercad.

I'd like a multi-filament one to print some more visually-appealing stuff but it's not going to make any functional difference.

>>108269759
warhams

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>>108269685
There's a lot of shit you can do even with a cheap printer and a cheap printer these days is very capable.
New innovations in 3D printing and the price point for entry for more advanced 3D printing features is constantly dropping.
t. 3D printing since they hit the consumer market

>>108269791
>show
I.e. cosmetics. Meanwhile Europe's and especially Myanmar's scene is flourishing.

>>108269685
They went from curiosity to commodity without turning luxury. See smartphones. Sure, niggers need their $$$ model to brag, but no one cares about Tim's moto that just does it's job. Same as no one cares some farmer in bumfuck nowhere saved himself a few bucks by fixing his milking aperture.

instead of buying a bunch of cheap plastic shit you can buy a $400 printer and $50 spool of plastic and print cheap plastic crap while filling your home with plastic fumes!

I really thought that picture was the laser device. This is probably a bad sign for my mind.

>>108269685
It never was cool.

people realized its not gonna change a single thing in the world, they are useful tools if you are into another hobby like car repair, microcontrollers, drones, etc but they were massively overhyped in like 2010 when they started hitting the market. people were saying that it was gonna change the way we do everything.

I like the idea of 3D printing acting as a counter to the action figure industry general jewery. Also, I asked a friend of mine once to print me a little piece of plastic for my driver's seat so I'd say it's also great for printing shit for old stuff.

>>108269685
DON'T STAND THERE THAT MACHINE TEARS YOUR SKIN OFF

>>108269771
>an average person cannot do that
Average person amongst the general population? Sure, but that's a very low bar. The average person can't even use photoshop.
But if someone is enough of a nerd to buy a 3D printer, there's a pretty high chance that they can at least figure out tinkercad.

>>108269685
How much does it cost to get into 3d printing compared to 2018?

>>108269685
>Why did 3d printing stop being the coolest shit?
When companies made printers "accessible" and "affordable" for normies, trannies, women, and people of color to ruin the hobby.

>>108271428
keep crying niggerr

>>108269685
Because a solid 80% of the shit being printed was shitty figurines and lacklustre props.
People eventually noticed that a very small ammount of functional things could be printed, the real goldmine are actual lathes but they are far more inaccesible and expensive.
Also let's say that you do manage to do something useful: Well, it's still a shitty production method, injection molding and other procedures are far more effective and robust.
3D printing realistically works best as a versatile prototyping tool.

>>108270398
What are you printing?

>>108269735
>>108269791
I know essentially nothing about metal working, but is it really that hard to make a grease gun or something by hand?

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>>108272729
One correct sentence followed by peak retard. Almost impressive.

>>108269685
>Why did 3d printing stop being the coolest shit?
Actual answer: when it got associated with the Anti-AI sl8p zeitgeist

Artists got mad at normiegoyim preferring to buy 3d printed dragons for 20 bucks at conventions instead of their ugly handmade stuff

People still respect the hell out of 3d modellers of course because that is objectively artistry. 3d printing is pretty awesome, I've mostly printed board game stuff and little games for my nephews and nieces and they love all the little games

>>108269735
3d printed guns will truly become relevant when you can 3d print a musket. In my country you can't buy bullets or any firearm parts. What that means is that if I wanted to make my last stand, I need something that can launch a steel ball using black powder I mixed myself.

>>108273079
fuck sake anon at least explain

>>108269685
Seems like it's well established at this point, people make all kinds of things with 3D printing.

>>108269685
>>108269754
the new coolest thing is 3D printing AI generated shit.

>>108272762
The 3Ds.

>>108271603
>dab on niggers
>hurr durr you're a nigger
are you retarded?

>>108269685
It's still pretty cool. It's just become so mainstream and common that all the /r/futurology dweebs are no longer orgasming over every new shit-tier printer design that gets posted on Kickstarter.

>>108269759
You must be an exceptionally dull person to be around.

>>108271380
With or without accounting for inflation?

It's not a lot cheaper than back then, but you can get a higher quality printer than back then. The control systems have improved so much that even comparing a 2020 printer to a 2024 printer you can see how much better the prints come out.

>>108272768
>is it really that hard to make a grease gun or something by hand?
It's pretty trivial. Luty's book is a good example, just buy common chunks of metal from the Bong equivalent of Home Depot and screw them together to form a functioning firearm.

But 3D printing really shines when you need to make a magazine. Luty's design required a lot of hand work. With a 3D printer you just download the STL file, slice it for your printer, and hit the start button.

>>108270398
Do cheap printers for under 50 USD exist

>>108269759
this

>>108273080
I want the 3d modellers destroyed too... They're still part of the war

>>108274027
you can probably find a used ender 3 or something for that on facebook market or craigslist or offerup or whatever people use these days

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Hype died because it's near impossible to make anything but plastic parts in a home settings. Retards were saying that in "DA FUTURE" you wouldn't go to the store to buy an iPhone, your 3D printer at home would make it, which is honestly laughable, it was never going to happen. Surely it made a lot of money to the Makerbot guys when they sold the company to Stratasys.

But people with actual hobbies love 3D printers, from table top gaming, firearms, cars, drones/RC anything, etc.

>>108274302
It's honestly pretty impressive how far we've come from the shitty Makerbots and Ender 3s.

>>108272729
>>108273096
>the real goldmine are actual lathes
Hasn't been for a couple of decades. At any moment you can hop on facebook, craigslist, etc. and find some moron in your area desperate to make his money back on whatever heavy equipment he has gotten himself into.
>Well, it's still a shitty production method, injection molding and other procedures are far more effective and robust.
>more effective
In walks the case of production units < 10.
>robust
What are non shell objects.
>other procedures
Thank god we didn't get too specific here, else someone might find out SLM is eating cast for breakfast at big pieces.
>3D printing realistically works best as a versatile prototyping tool
Even if we dismiss all 3d printed parts as structural insufficient, their main selling point would still be sales.
Get a job.

>>108274833
>Spend God knows how much time and money making a beeg Goku
>Paint it like a gumball machine toy
printfags are utterly braindead

Turns out it's not as easy as ignorant journalists hyped it up to be.

>>108269685
>i wanna be one of the cool kids
christ on a cross hs ended long time ago, grow the fuck up and consider doing shit you like instead of chasing optics. fucking retard.

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>>108269771
>Because the 3D print something you either need to design something yourself
*sigh* if only there were a way to just ask for the things you want.

>>108269685
Neutered to stop >>108269735

>>108269771
I'm a mechE and design and print stuff pretty much constantly. I came to same conclusion, if you're not doing your own designs its of limited use.
Unless you play dnd and need 50 elves or something. Those guys get their money's worth as well.
>>108271380
About $200 for an ender 3 current version. They just keep getting faster and more robust. I upgraded mine last year and gave old one to nephew, who's in engineering classes in high school.
>>108274027
Used perhaps, but I wouldn't touch that stuff. Not worth the hassle unless youre coverting to something else like anon above did.

ran out of things to print

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>>108269685
Because you can't print smooth surfaces, it always looks and feels like shit. People want something that looks professional.

>>108276158
>you can't print smooth surfaces
quite literally skill issue

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I love my 3d printer. I print my kids fidgets and stupid meme toys they ask for. I also print out cases for my little tech projects.

Picrel is a case I printed for an esp8266 soldiered on to a garage door opener that I keep on top of my garage door opener and I added in to home assistant.

>>108276158
just sand and paint it with SEM.

>>108276191
idiot

>>108269685
My state banned 3d printers

>>108276158
if you printed that on glass you'd have glass smooth surface.
if you printed it with a smaller nozzle you'd have smoother
if you printed that with resin printer you'd have smoother
if you printed different orientiation with tiny layer height, smoother.

>>108277161
No way, what? Where?

>>108277205
California last week banned 3d printers and gnu/Linux starting Jan 1st 2027

Would a 3d printed firearm even function beyond a single shot?
I swear all the functional "3d printed guns" are just other disassembled weapons put in a "cool" looking shell.

>>108277340
There's a few designs out there now that let you build a fully functional semi-auto firearm from basic hardware store components and 3D printed parts.
No, I'm not gonna point you towards them, I'm probably on enough watchlists already as it stands.

>>108277340
no lol. they all use metal parts for anything seeing any strain or heat. its a fuckin meme.

3d printers are incredible for mock ups, molds, jigs, nla plastic parts, mechanisms where plastic is suitable. great at what they are great for, aiding traditional fabrication and design.

its the unemployed that believe otherwise. see: ai hype and whatever the next happeningfag thing was before that (legit think it was 3d printers lol) ah man in 2 more weeks we're gonna be able to print a space craft!

>>108277340

it has been proven to be effective with barrel and lower receiver in metal.
wich kinda fuck up the purpose ,if you can have a lower receiver that means you can buy a gun and if you can buy a gun there's kinda no point in it.
Even if you would just buy the lower receiver ,they are still registered.

I wouldn't shoot anything with at least Upper+lower+barrel in steel and at least or maybe if you make it an air rifle wich would be then possible but limited to a certain amount J.

if i'm wrong might someone correct me and give you a better answer.

>>108277420
>if you can have a lower receiver
I would say the barrel is harder to DIY.

the material is really expensive and the actually decent printers are even worse

>>108274943
It's not bad for a base coat. He just needs to apply details now

>>108276158
>That amount of stringing
If you don't print it at 10km/s it looks better.

>>108277420
>>108277609
Oh yeah and ammo, good luck with that in a no gun country, kek.

>noxious fumes
>expensive
>only purpose is creating more plastic waste garbage to pollute the world and insert more microplastics into every living being

>>108277340
They'd be perfect for a (relatively) cheap prop for a low budget movie, if those even exist anymore.

>>108277744

yeah too much tools you need too when you can just go to the local ball trap ,give few shots,take a beer and you'd be good with Hunting shotguns/Carbines. Plus if you've got a license then you can have actually the stuff you need if you still want to make ammos.

but honestly now there's metal 3d printer so honestly it's all good plus you could print the barrel without the cnc transformation etc. Will see

>>108275847
This. It can do KiCad too btw.