My daughter wanted a “Gorilla Tag” birthday. And my wife wanted me to print some party favors for the guest kids. Not my model, but they are churning out ok-ish.

  • @Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
    6•4 months ago

    Turns out that my 3d printer is mostly just a toy maker for my kids.

    Honestly looking at 3d printer ads and their selling points I think the printer companies have figured that out too

    • @Maalus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•4 months ago

      Well, if you aren’t a maker, then buying a tool like that rarely makes sense. Why buy a CNC mill if you won’t ever have a project for it? Printers simply became popular and sound cool to everyone. So everyone gets them and only prints toys

      • @Krauerking@lemy.lolEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        Yeah. Honestly this is one of those spaces where the product is being built first and the use case for it decided after for a lot of companies. I needed 3d printers when I was first getting into them but man my self built repraps sucked and now they are awesome and I don’t need it at all… Sigh.