rasband said:
Yeah, it's a lot all at once - thankfully these days we are approaching "appliance" level of reliability, it was pretty annoying back in the day when you could look at your printer wrong and have to fully recalibrate it manually.

Its pretty mind blowing how far its come in the last 3-4 years. The first printer I owned was one I built from scratch on another 3d printer, plasma cut the frame out of the old skid plate from my dune buggy. I hobbed a bolt with a tap on the bridgeport to make the extruder.

then I start telling my buddies kid about all of it and I start sounding like i had to carry the 3d printer 10 miles uphill both ways in the snow every time I wanted to use it. Its wild to think I have 3d prints older than him. I think I made this one in the tail end of 2013.

Vintage TJ 3D Print (2013)

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