3DPrinting
3DPrinting is a place where makers of all skill levels and walks of life can learn about and discuss 3D printing and development of 3D printed parts and devices.
The r/functionalprint community is now located at: or !functionalprint@fedia.io
There are CAD communities available at: !cad@lemmy.world or !freecad@lemmy.ml
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No guns
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TLDW; billionaire Michael Bloomberg is behind multiple laws in mostly blue states to require spyware be added to all 3D printers under the banner of "gun control".
He's attempted to hide this as a grassroots effort, when in reality it's nearly completely funded by him and his organizations. There's a call to action to contact your representatives if that legislation is being proposed in your state and voice your opposition to letting billionaires control what you can and cannot 3d print.
Can you use the gun lobby loophole on everything banned for guns and buy your 3d printer as a kit?
They're probably gonna try making the slicer send the print to a central server (based on what I was hearing about the California law), so while making a printer from a kit (like a Voron) isn't a bad idea, they're probably gonna try to aim for the software side. The whole thing is so dumb.
Proposal, all FOSS slicers come with a secondary download with a disclaimer like:
Prusa already does this if you let it. I have been doing it because its a convenient feature, but now Im definitely going back to the old way
So airgap an older version of Klipper...
For the printer side, sure. But if they start declaring slicers that aren't phoning to a govt server illegal... they'll be slightly harder to find and install. Which is just why this is soo stupid. Not only is it very hard to enforce, phoning models into a central server and expecting it to know what models contain parts for a gun or the like isn't really possible (you could maybe make some AI to intuit a bit, but it would probably suck at actually figuring out if a print is dangerous or not).