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Is there a FOSS 3d printer?

>>843024

yes

IIRC most of the early ones were. It wasn't until they got popular and the chinks started cranking them out that prorietary ones showed up.

>>843024

There is also freely licenced filament to use in your printer.

https://github.com/IC3DPrinters/filament-extrusion/

>>843055

>liscenses a peice of plastic

Is this a joke?

>>843067

No, it's the absolute state of America, land of the Kike

LulzBot is libre, Prusa i3 is libre afaik (has tons of clones), most non-professional ones are

Academics please respond

>>843019 (OP)

3d printing is a meme

>>843076

ebin

>>843077

>having fun and making cool stuff is a meme

>>843067

>>liscenses a peice of plastic

No, licensing the process and materials used to make it.

>what do people use printers for

At my workplace they're typically used for printing out shit memes.

>>843204

3d printers are great for hobbyists or creator types

>brb quick prototyping done at home

>can finally build robots pretty much from scratch

>3d print parts for broken things around the house

>plenty of cool little diy projects

>decent one for under 1k and easy to use compared to dangerous and costly milling machines and lathes :^)

My dad ordered one of the FOSS ones for chrismas for me. Should be comming in the mail.

...

Any day now.

>>843298

Well, shit. The order from novembre did not go through

>>843204

They really aren't. Milling machines are big, expensive, loud, and dangerous, same for lathes. You also need to store metal around, clean up the scrap produced, etc etc. They also can't provide anywhere near the same level of detail and control over the final product. 3D printers are fucking awesome.

You just sound like a tryhard contrarian

>>843024

The lulzbot aka the only 3d printer that has the RYF certification.

>>843298

Does your Dad know you browse a Tibetan imageboard?

>>843019 (OP)

theyre only good for prototypes and tiny cheap plastic things you cover in enamel paint

Last time I checked there were no 3D printers that worked well with GNU. Has that changed?

>>843685

I thought they just ran instructions based from 3d model schematics like autodesk

I fucking wish, but they're all 2expensive4me. Even the cost of printing a Snappy or Dollo 3D from a campus print shop is prohibitive.