I don’t often toot my own horn on the internet, but I made this for myself and it turned out pretty well. I know I’m pretty late to the game but I put a Prussa MK4 together at my school last year for another teacher (who didn’t have the time to do it) and have been slowly learning the ropes. It’s a remix, but this was the first thing that I made the final model from (nearly) scratch and didn’t just print someone else’s stl.
We’re trying to bring more analog entertainment with us when we go out so my spouse and I (and by extension our kids) don’t just jump to devices for down time.
Right on! It's a neat feeling for sure, seeing your creations come to life, and it's all uphill from here too! You never forget your first printed model.
Mine was when I was in college, I created a set of rims for an RC car in my solids class, and the reward for the projects best design was I got time on the schools printer to create them. You should have seen this contraption, thing basically looked like a coca-cola vending machine, it was roughly about that size too. It was quite a sight, but for the time it was a super big deal. Real cutting edge. Probably took 30 hours to print what my Bambu could burp out in under a half hour.
If you told me back then I'd have a machine 20 times as capable, and a tenth of the size on the workshop of my bench at home 25 years later, for under $1k, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. Real story.